Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > General Moving Issues
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 11-21-2015, 01:35 PM
 
4,710 posts, read 7,083,634 times
Reputation: 5612

Advertisements

Quote:
Originally Posted by Restrain View Post
Instead of Colorado, consider East Texas. It gets real cold in Utah,, Colorado, been there done that. You get older,you get less cold tolerant. Consider Nacogdoches, Longview, Tyler areas. Good health care and hospitals, employment opportunities, relatively inexpensive prices, and no income taxes.
Yes, but remember that no income tax means higher property taxes and fewer services. Also, Texas has a gun culture. That could be good or bad, depending on your own attitudes.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 11-22-2015, 07:46 AM
 
Location: Ohio
1,217 posts, read 2,828,142 times
Reputation: 2253
Get in your car and drive around this great big country to feel it in person. Be suspicious of articles written about the "best" places to retire, someone usually has a hidden motive about which cities to include or dis-include.

I've driven through East Texas and stopped for the night twice, would never want to live there based on our criteria, YMMV.
As beautiful as Utah is we'd never live there and be a perpetual minority (non-Mormon).
We looked at the whole US before deciding to stay in Florida (although moving from the first FL city we retired to) and got in our travel van to drive to the list of FL cities we came up with. It was both a lot of work as well as fun/interesting.

IMO there is no "perfect" place but there can be "almost perfect".
Go there (multiple places) stay for a week, read the local newspaper to get a feel for the area. How many events are there that you'd like to go to? At the end of the week if you are really sorry to be leaving that may be the place for you.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:

Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > General Moving Issues
Similar Threads

All times are GMT -6. The time now is 09:06 AM.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top