What town would be your ideal place to relocate to?
09-28-2003, 05:45 PM
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You could tell them what I did, "Pay me out or go to jail. Your choice."
09-28-2003, 07:21 PM
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paS2k,
Whidbey Island, Wa is a very real island and not a penisula. It is separated on the north end by a channel called appropriately Deception Pass. Its not a trivial channel since most people would die trying to swim the channel. Cold and exceptionally strong currents.
Retirement location favorites in Washington are Sequim, Port Townsend, the Anacortes area, and the Bellingham area. Basically anyway near water.
Whidbey Island, Wa is a very real island and not a penisula. It is separated on the north end by a channel called appropriately Deception Pass. Its not a trivial channel since most people would die trying to swim the channel. Cold and exceptionally strong currents.
Retirement location favorites in Washington are Sequim, Port Townsend, the Anacortes area, and the Bellingham area. Basically anyway near water.
09-28-2003, 10:56 PM
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Well, we already did it, found our perfect place and moved there: Phoenix. My family has been everywhere in the US while living in the midwest We wanted to move West to escape the high humidity of the East. The West also has spectacular landscape and less-traveled open roads for car nuts. At the same time, my wife & I were tired of dealing with winter, so the Southwest was elected. While you can move way out somewhere with the coyotes and rattlesnakes, we craved the amenities of a big city. Places like Prescott and Flagstaff are small, somewhat shop-worn, and get down below 0 in the winter.
So we retired in 2000 and moved to the Phoenix metro area, which has a population of about 3.5 million, sports, plays, concerts, museums, shopping, great restaurants, and golfing everywhere. We found a subdivision in one of the suburbs; our neighborhood is in the foothills overlooking the city lights. It's dead quiet out in the yard but we're less than 30min. away from any attraction.
The dreaded Phoenix summers? Yep, the temps were around 115 during July & August, but things are cooling down now--we sleep with the bedroom patio door open. Coming from the midwest, I'd say the summers here are more bearable, since the humidity runs around 10-20%. June-Sept. are spent with the A/C on, but that leaves Oct.-May with the house open. The worst it gets in winter is occasional rain and temps ranging from 60 day - 50 night. If we want snow, mountains and ponderosa pine forests (with skiing) are only a couple of hours away by car.
The area's cost of living is no more than average, about the same as we experienced in the rural midwest. Ex., our electric bill here is $60/ month; real estate taxes run about $1400/ year. The plate for the S does run $400/year, tho.
Attitudes here are friendly and casual; no one ever honks a horn, even. Except for the outlaw element, nobody seems to get upset about much of anything, nor do they approve many taxes. All in all, it's everything we could want, and the spectacular drives around the state!
Jerry, I don't know anything about Civano, and the website didn't seem to reveal where it is in Tucson. That city is OK, but some areas are run-down, as is Phoenix. Our utility usage is so low, that we didn't need to look for anything special in that regard. Tucson isn't as large a cultural base as Phoenix, being a much smaller city.
So we retired in 2000 and moved to the Phoenix metro area, which has a population of about 3.5 million, sports, plays, concerts, museums, shopping, great restaurants, and golfing everywhere. We found a subdivision in one of the suburbs; our neighborhood is in the foothills overlooking the city lights. It's dead quiet out in the yard but we're less than 30min. away from any attraction.
The dreaded Phoenix summers? Yep, the temps were around 115 during July & August, but things are cooling down now--we sleep with the bedroom patio door open. Coming from the midwest, I'd say the summers here are more bearable, since the humidity runs around 10-20%. June-Sept. are spent with the A/C on, but that leaves Oct.-May with the house open. The worst it gets in winter is occasional rain and temps ranging from 60 day - 50 night. If we want snow, mountains and ponderosa pine forests (with skiing) are only a couple of hours away by car.
The area's cost of living is no more than average, about the same as we experienced in the rural midwest. Ex., our electric bill here is $60/ month; real estate taxes run about $1400/ year. The plate for the S does run $400/year, tho.
Attitudes here are friendly and casual; no one ever honks a horn, even. Except for the outlaw element, nobody seems to get upset about much of anything, nor do they approve many taxes. All in all, it's everything we could want, and the spectacular drives around the state!
Jerry, I don't know anything about Civano, and the website didn't seem to reveal where it is in Tucson. That city is OK, but some areas are run-down, as is Phoenix. Our utility usage is so low, that we didn't need to look for anything special in that regard. Tucson isn't as large a cultural base as Phoenix, being a much smaller city.
09-29-2003, 04:24 AM
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Originally posted by The Professor
Well, we already did it, found our perfect place and moved there: Phoenix. My family has been everywhere in the US while living in the midwest We wanted to move West to escape the high humidity of the East. The West also has spectacular landscape and less-traveled open roads for car nuts. At the same time, my wife & I were tired of dealing with winter, so the Southwest was elected. While you can move way out somewhere with the coyotes and rattlesnakes, we craved the amenities of a big city. Places like Prescott and Flagstaff are small, somewhat shop-worn, and get down below 0 in the winter.
So we retired in 2000 and moved to the Phoenix metro area, which has a population of about 3.5 million, sports, plays, concerts, museums, shopping, great restaurants, and golfing everywhere. We found a subdivision in one of the suburbs; our neighborhood is in the foothills overlooking the city lights. It's dead quiet out in the yard but we're less than 30min. away from any attraction.
The dreaded Phoenix summers? Yep, the temps were around 115 during July & August, but things are cooling down now--we sleep with the bedroom patio door open. Coming from the midwest, I'd say the summers here are more bearable, since the humidity runs around 10-20%. June-Sept. are spent with the A/C on, but that leaves Oct.-May with the house open. The worst it gets in winter is occasional rain and temps ranging from 60 day - 50 night. If we want snow, mountains and ponderosa pine forests (with skiing) are only a couple of hours away by car.
The area's cost of living is no more than average, about the same as we experienced in the rural midwest. Ex., our electric bill here is $60/ month; real estate taxes run about $1400/ year. The plate for the S does run $400/year, tho.
Attitudes here are friendly and casual; no one ever honks a horn, even. Except for the outlaw element, nobody seems to get upset about much of anything, nor do they approve many taxes. All in all, it's everything we could want, and the spectacular drives around the state!
Jerry, I don't know anything about Civano, and the website didn't seem to reveal where it is in Tucson. That city is OK, but some areas are run-down, as is Phoenix. Our utility usage is so low, that we didn't need to look for anything special in that regard. Tucson isn't as large a cultural base as Phoenix, being a much smaller city.
Well, we already did it, found our perfect place and moved there: Phoenix. My family has been everywhere in the US while living in the midwest We wanted to move West to escape the high humidity of the East. The West also has spectacular landscape and less-traveled open roads for car nuts. At the same time, my wife & I were tired of dealing with winter, so the Southwest was elected. While you can move way out somewhere with the coyotes and rattlesnakes, we craved the amenities of a big city. Places like Prescott and Flagstaff are small, somewhat shop-worn, and get down below 0 in the winter.
So we retired in 2000 and moved to the Phoenix metro area, which has a population of about 3.5 million, sports, plays, concerts, museums, shopping, great restaurants, and golfing everywhere. We found a subdivision in one of the suburbs; our neighborhood is in the foothills overlooking the city lights. It's dead quiet out in the yard but we're less than 30min. away from any attraction.
The dreaded Phoenix summers? Yep, the temps were around 115 during July & August, but things are cooling down now--we sleep with the bedroom patio door open. Coming from the midwest, I'd say the summers here are more bearable, since the humidity runs around 10-20%. June-Sept. are spent with the A/C on, but that leaves Oct.-May with the house open. The worst it gets in winter is occasional rain and temps ranging from 60 day - 50 night. If we want snow, mountains and ponderosa pine forests (with skiing) are only a couple of hours away by car.
The area's cost of living is no more than average, about the same as we experienced in the rural midwest. Ex., our electric bill here is $60/ month; real estate taxes run about $1400/ year. The plate for the S does run $400/year, tho.
Attitudes here are friendly and casual; no one ever honks a horn, even. Except for the outlaw element, nobody seems to get upset about much of anything, nor do they approve many taxes. All in all, it's everything we could want, and the spectacular drives around the state!
Jerry, I don't know anything about Civano, and the website didn't seem to reveal where it is in Tucson. That city is OK, but some areas are run-down, as is Phoenix. Our utility usage is so low, that we didn't need to look for anything special in that regard. Tucson isn't as large a cultural base as Phoenix, being a much smaller city.