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Hi there, I am a retired Veteran looking for a small, quiet, safe, affordable, pretty small city or town to live in, somewhere in the USA. I am mature aged, retired status, single, with no kids. I need a place along the lines of South Dakota, Maine and etc....where there is hardly any congestion, low crime, low taxes and friendly people. I will be looking to buy a house with some acreage as well, in about 6 months to a year.
I am also not a huge fan of severe heat or extreme snow and cold. Southwestern Missouri has come to mind.....South Dakota, Kentucky, Idaho...maybe around Boise and etc.....I am all over the map on this.....as you can read. Hoping to receive lots of input on where the best place for a single retiree may plant roots. Also want to be able to drive to a VA hospital monthly, so a place having a VA within 100 miles would be great. Thanks.....currently, I am in the Tacoma WA area...and had lived in Seattle for ten years before that.
Last edited by folk_guitarist; 07-16-2013 at 08:30 PM..
Yes WA and OR are to me, some of the best options in the USA.....but due to high rents and housing prices and taxes......I am forced to look elsewhere in the USA....I am looking at small towns or small cities with home prices less then 175,000 for home and a few acres.....so places like South Dakota..Sioux Falls.......small places in Iowa.....and in southern Indiana...even in southwest MO are popping up. Like around Joplin MO and etc.....not looking to live in any of the deeper southern states, so more like Midwest I guess...as New England and the Pacific Northwest seem to be just too high for taxes and home costs and ...etc....Roseburg looks nice...I did look there....but housing is just too high....
even in the more rural areas of WA state, seems like the housing prices are too high....with no acreage.....maybe around Spokane ...might be cheaper....but I hear the area is depressed and crime riddled....
You might look at East Tennessee around the Tri-Cities (Johnson City, Kingsport and Bristol). There's a nice VA center in Johnson City affiliated with the East Tennessee State University School of Medicine. It's a beautiful area with low housing costs, low taxes and a cost of living well below the national average. Kiplinger ranked it among the Top 10 most affordable places to live in the US.
If you're looking for some place safe and crime free then you might be looking for awhile. Every city and town has their issues. I grew up in a very small town that I always thought was safe growing up. Turns out they have always had a major problems with drugs and violence. I guess it is one of those ignorance is bliss things. Good luck finding a place to settle down though.
Hi there, I am a retired Veteran looking for a small, quiet, safe, affordable, pretty small city or town to live in, somewhere in the USA. I am mature aged, retired status, single, with no kids. I need a place along the lines of South Dakota, Maine and etc....where there is hardly any congestion, low crime, low taxes and friendly people. I will be looking to buy a house with some acreage as well, in about 6 months to a year.
I am also not a huge fan of severe heat or extreme snow and cold. Southwestern Missouri has come to mind.....South Dakota, Kentucky, Idaho...maybe around Boise and etc.....I am all over the map on this.....as you can read. Hoping to receive lots of input on where the best place for a single retiree may plant roots. Also want to be able to drive to a VA hospital monthly, so a place having a VA within 100 miles would be great. Thanks.....currently, I am in the Tacoma WA area...and had lived in Seattle for ten years before that.
Check out Hot Springs Village outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas - in the Ouachita Mountains. It's nestled between Hot Springs and Little Rock. There's a VA hospital in Hot Springs. The weather is nice, property taxes are very low, housing is affordable, and the people are very friendly.
Well I will look at TN as well.....as long as it is nowhere near Memphis. Been thru Knoxville some years ago.....looked run down and ragged, but with pretty nature and mountainous terrain. Little Rock supposedly is riddled to the bones, with crime, so I would never live to close to that city. If it wasn't for the long winters, and the cold....and the heavy snowfall, .....I would be up in rural New England most likely. Midwest is as cold as a witches bottom, ... Florida maybe 30 years ago. Texas, too hot, tornadoes, and illegal immigration issues. I don't see a lot of decent places left in the USA, to be honest. As for Hot Springs AR, I read somewhere about Hot Springs having the highest crime rate in the USA....not sure if that is true or not though....so that makes me wary.
Last edited by folk_guitarist; 07-20-2013 at 04:31 PM..
Hi there, I am a retired Veteran looking for a small, quiet, safe, affordable, pretty small city or town to live in, somewhere in the USA. I am mature aged, retired status, single, with no kids. I need a place along the lines of South Dakota, Maine and etc....where there is hardly any congestion, low crime, low taxes and friendly people. I will be looking to buy a house with some acreage as well, in about 6 months to a year.
I am also not a huge fan of severe heat or extreme snow and cold. Southwestern Missouri has come to mind.....South Dakota, Kentucky, Idaho...maybe around Boise and etc.....I am all over the map on this.....as you can read. Hoping to receive lots of input on where the best place for a single retiree may plant roots. Also want to be able to drive to a VA hospital monthly, so a place having a VA within 100 miles would be great. Thanks.....currently, I am in the Tacoma WA area...and had lived in Seattle for ten years before that.
We are currently looking for the same thing. Now in Grants Pass OR and everything is too high on the West Coast for retired people. Hope you post what you find and maybe it would be of help to us too.
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