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I love upstate NY , Upper Hudson Valley+ Columbia County are gorgeous ! I spent alot O time in the Berkshires of Mass and love it up there but the proximity to the Grand kids isn't good.
That’s my problem now, kids, not grandkids. They’re in the city still, so I have to stay close.
I’d like to move to the lower Adirondacks and possibly keep a small shore house in Ocean County.
Just suffers from lack of jobs/industry. The state specializes in law, banking, chemistry as the other major cities in states outside have more popular industries.
Its also difficult to build housing in Delaware due with the marshes/flooding due to most the state only being 60ft above sea-level.
So lack of industry for work-force aged people, challenges in building housing, and doesn't have the year-round weather like Florida for retirees even though its a tax-friendly state.
We don't all want that, though. I was ready to move to rural Ontario. LOVED the winter up there. Not sure I'd like it if I had to get up and drive to work in it, but as long as you've got everything you need and a good whole-house generator for when the electricity goes out, the winter was wonderful, just a little long.
I don't mind Florida for a visit now and again, but I would NEVER live there. Used to go a couple of times a year when I had in-laws there. Summer is pure hell. Others love hell. They can have it.
We will most likely eventually move back to NY, but upstate. My pension is tax free there, a bug consideration when “true” retirement time comes.
That's where I likely will end up. Same deal on the pension. Jersey gives an exclusion, but if you're working part-time, like I am, and make over a certain limit, they come back and tax a portion of it.
Loved living in Ontario lake country, wouldn't mind finding something similar upstate within reach of one of the smaller cities.
We don't all want that, though. I was ready to move to rural Ontario. LOVED the winter up there. Not sure I'd like it if I had to get up and drive to work in it, but as long as you've got everything you need and a good whole-house generator for when the electricity goes out, the winter was wonderful, just a little long.
I don't mind Florida for a visit now and again, but I would NEVER live there. Used to go a couple of times a year when I had in-laws there. Summer is pure hell. Others love hell. They can have it.
Agreed! Not the largest fan of the souths humidity, and Florida is only good for a visit. Prefer the peacefulness of the outdoors north and west. Montana and Idaho are beautiful and still a kept secret from most of the country.
Upstate NY is still the most beautiful place in the world to me. I returned Monday morning from a trip to Idaho and Montana. Awesome, but even close.
ehhhh..... I'm looking at a few places in the hudson valley, catskills myself but vs. Idaho? I guess it depends where you were. But the big benefit is being close to home base in NJ.
Where we were, it was wide open expanses or mountains. Don’t get me wrong, I love the west. I lived in Colorado for 4 years. But I need deciduous forests. That’s what puts NY over the top. Nothing beats the changing of the leaves for me.
Where we were, it was wide open expanses or mountains. Don’t get me wrong, I love the west. I lived in Colorado for 4 years. But I need deciduous forests. That’s what puts NY over the top. Nothing beats the changing of the leaves for me.
I started going to the Berkshires back in the mid 60's and even went to college in Mass . I've been back almost every years since and I'm 67.
I do agree that fall in the NE is about as nice as it gets.
Best place I’ve experienced the fall was in Vermont
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