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Old 09-08-2019, 01:16 PM
 
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I would love to find a small preferably walkable town or one that has walkable neighborhoods; one that has a large enough senior population that would offer ample opportunities for meeting other seniors and would be friendly to SINGLE seniors as well. I would also prefer to live somewhere that leans liberal and offers a diverse community, as well as cultural and educational opportunities and is not too far from outdoor recreational facilities or parks. It would be great to have some cafes, good (healthy) restaurants, and access to healthy grocery stores, shops and a movie theater that shows more than blockbuster films. My preference is to remain in the east, as my daughter lives in NYC. Am I asking for the impossible?
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Old 09-08-2019, 01:27 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Port Townsend's Uptown neighborhood? It's a small town (5000), but skews significantly toward seniors, many of whom are single. The town has a great food co-op, and a locally-owned grocery store in the Uptown neighborhood. A friend of mine in that neighborhood organizes an open house event from time to time, so the newcomers can all get to know each other. Pt T doesn't allow big box stores or other national chain stores other than one national grocery chain (in another part of town), AFAIK. People who need big box shopping drive over to Sequim.

Pt Townsend is a town of festivals, with a busy calendar of festival weekends from around mid-Spring through early Fall. There's an outpost of Goddard University in town, as well as a center for cultural events and learning opportunities in Fort Worden State Park, a historical military installation converted to a culture center, with lodging and a restaurant.
Fort Worden | Home

It's also a sailing town. https://enjoypt.com
It doesn't check your diversity box, though, and some feel it's isolated (being on the Olympic Peninsula, at the foot of the Olympic Mountains). Others feel it has pretty much everything they need, and love the easy access to recreational opportunities.
https://www.nps.gov/olym/index.htm

You should visit, of course, before making a big decision like this.
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Old 09-08-2019, 01:40 PM
 
Location: Out West
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Hanitaglia, I see this is your first post, so welcome to the C-D forum! If your preference is to remain in the east, I'm curious why you are posting in the Washington state forum. Since you mention being a senior, you may want to post this question in the Retirement forum. Good luck!
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Old 09-08-2019, 03:04 PM
 
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My preference is to remain in the east, as my daughter lives in NYC. Am I asking for the impossible?
Did you maybe mean to post this to a Washington D.C. forum? If not, I moved here from NYC and can say you will not find anything here that is as walkable or culturally diverse as the NYC area. Liberal, outdoor activities, parks all that over stuff you mention however we have plenty of.
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Old 09-08-2019, 05:32 PM
 
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Port Townsend, or anywhere in WA state for that matter, is about as far WEST as you can go in the lower 48.

If you did in fact want to go west, PT has lots of single seniors and things to do for them. However, it is an expensive place to live with some big negatives, and it does not lean left. It fell flat over to the left, all the way. A former neighbor who grew up in NYC referred to it as Left Of Left.

I would say it is active socially but not in an outdoor physical activities way. We were surprised at how, well, OLD, the town felt. (We are seniors ourselves.)
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Old 09-10-2019, 09:16 PM
 
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Look for the places with higher educational attainment.



Wahkiakum County is middle-of-the road but it has it's uneducated rednecks' I just wrote a rebuttal to this


"To The Eagle:
With every social ill we have seemingly expanding by the day, let us remind ourselves that the democrat socialist blob controls every major city government, every major university, every TV and motion picture company, every major internet giant, and every major newspaper in our nation. The foolishness and lack of thought of our age is apparent.
And then we have the arrogant and heedless among us who will hector and vilify us for not voting for the "progressives," the soft [and hard] left. We reject the foolish and failed policies of the jackass party. Trump fights and wins.
We're fed up to here with the failure and ruination the democrats and establishment republicans bring. The hope here is that many more will join us in his reelection. MAGA.
Mike Swift"


The Editor thought I was a little mean denigrating Swift for illiterate drivel, but will print most of it. I had particular fun asking what "those of us who will HECTOR and vilify" I did not that my neighbor's dog is named Hector...




There are many liberals there too, and its a great , friendly place that is undiscovered and inexpensive. Skamokawa - Cathlamet. Take a look.
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Old 09-11-2019, 10:08 PM
 
Location: Kirkland, WA (Metro Seattle)
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Live in "the east" what? Eastern WA, so like Spokane? A flight to Newark or JFK on United or Delta isn't hard from here (SEA), I do so every few years for my alma mater's Christmas party in December, downtown Manhattan.

As for "walkability," I might personally trust that website of same name. I think they have my neighborhood pretty well understood, I must reluctantly agree.

Tons of towns around Seattle meet the qualifications desired, might want to spend some time on that forum. Just don't start quacking about "affordable housing" as that's the easiest way to be pitched right into the "piker" bin by most regulars, mmkay? Median home price in a non-ghetto part of town was roughly $550K last time I checked, at least $750K for places where people actually want to live, few if any of which are "diverse" being predominantly White and (roughly 1/5 as many) Asian(1) That word is also a dog whistle word for anti-White, anti-Asian policies, btw. If you're into all that, you're welcome to it as the ghetto probably needs more social workers.

(1) Examine C-D's own data on this, or Wikipedia, or competing websites I cannot mention w/o sanction: Bellevue, Kirkland, Wallingford, Yarrow Point, Madison Park, Madrona.

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Old 09-11-2019, 10:33 PM
 
Location: Rochester, WA
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I think our poster thought they were in the WA DC forum.
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