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In reply to the discussion: Hey retired DUers...any retirement location recommendations? [View all]Jane Austin
(9,199 posts)29. I agree about North Carolina.
You get a couple of snowstorms a year, but it doesn't stay bitter for six or eight months. Likewise, the summers are warm during daylight, but cool off as soon as the sun goes down.
Spring is gorgeous with Rhododendrons and dogwoods, and fall is as beautiful as anyplace in the country.
We lived over the mountain from Asheville in Tennessee, but it's way redder than western North Carolina.
The Blue Ridge area of Tennessee would be just about a perfect place to live if it weren't for the dominance of churchiness and relatively inferior schools.
But the people are very, very nice in both places and Hendersonville, NC which is just 30 miles from Asheville has jillions of golf courses.
Housing prices in that area are unbeatable.
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Well, Los Angeles meets all your criteria........except the cost of living.
CaliforniaPeggy
Jan 2020
#5
And split into a handful of districts, all but one of which are red-dominated.
Crash2Parties
Jan 2020
#91
We lived in Vegas for two years, 2003-5. It's affordable, yes, but it's like living
stopbush
Jan 2020
#10
A nephew of mine lived in Reno for a while. Said it was worse than Vegas, where he had
stopbush
Jan 2020
#25
South Louisiana is a whole different culture-- laizzez les bons temps rouler nt
IphengeniaBlumgarten
Jan 2020
#44