It's no secret that I'm casting about for a place to settle after I retire (in about five years, the gods willing...). I've got a couple of candidates (Colorado, New Mexico) but I'm open to other suggestions. Maybe.
Anyway, here's your chance to be the local chamber of commerce. Tell me why the place where you live is so awesome that I'd be an idiot not to move there.
Alternately, if you're dying to get out of Dodge yourself, tell me about the place where you wish you lived.
Annnnd...go.
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"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
as you and I are on the same mission here are some other places on my list
Bend, Oregon, actually most of Oregon interests me. Cost of living low compared to what you and I are used to. Real estate reasonable. Nice political mixture. Closer to the water than NM or Colorado. Beautiful forests. And not near my family.
San Miguel De Allende in Mexico. Basically a community that sprung up from the GI Bill $$$. Good medical, lots of artists and writers. Beautiful area. And not near my family.
Williamsburg, Mass. Lots of artists and writers, beautiful area but real estate is pricy due to Smith College being in the area. And not near my family.
Coast of Maine cause I love the coast of Maine. And not near my family.
The loudest truth I ever heard was the softest sound.
Lorin, I'm sensing a theme with your responses. You've mentioned San Miguel de Allende before. I suppose I shouldn't take Latin American countries off the table. Hmm.
Morning -- why Peru? Other than that's where Paddington Bear came from.
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
aliantha wrote:Lorin, I'm sensing a theme with your responses. You've mentioned San Miguel de Allende before. I suppose I shouldn't take Latin American countries off the table. Hmm.
Morning -- why Peru? Other than that's where Paddington Bear came from.
Peaceful, cheapEST, fair weather, human sample skewed towards the kind and easy-going... safe too, so far, unlike Bolivia where you can find that a law has been enacted banning all non-shamanist garments or Venezuela with the spectre of Chavez appearing to people in the very hitchcockian guise of birds in chapel balconies
aliantha wrote:Lorin, I'm sensing a theme with your responses. You've mentioned San Miguel de Allende before. I suppose I shouldn't take Latin American countries off the table. Hmm.
Morning -- why Peru? Other than that's where Paddington Bear came from.
Peaceful, cheapEST, fair weather, human sample skewed towards the kind and easy-going... safe too, so far, unlike Bolivia where you can find that a law has been enacted banning all non-shamanist garments or Venezuela with the spectre of Chavez appearing to people in the very hitchcockian guise of birds in chapel balconies
Isn't the Shining Path located in Peru?
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Morning wrote:What, the Sendero? No idea if they are still active. If so then so much the better. Target range included. What more can anyone ask for?
Not nearly as much as they were... mainly for the reason you just mentioned: farmers pretty much were given training, guns, and permission to riddle those suckers with bullets if they ever came on their land.
To which el Sendero cried out, "Waaah! You're violating our human rights!"
'Tis dream to think that Reason can
Govern the reasoning creature, man.
- Herman Melville
I am Lazarus, come from the dead,
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all!
"All creation is a huge, ornate, imaginary, and unintended fiction; if it could be deciphered it would yield a single shocking word."
-John Crowley
Peru's got mountains, too. That's where Patagonia is, right? No, wait, that's Chile. Anyhow, I speak Spanish, kinda sorta. Hmm...
(googling) Aha! I *thought* I'd been to Bend, Oregon! I took the kids to the High Desert Museum there. And we camped overnight in a tipi at the state park nearby.
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
Florida is nice - in the winter, anyway. But it'll be underwater in 20 years, so...
"The Cheat is GROUNDED! We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw lightswitch raves!"
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- I'm always all right.
- Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?
- You're all irresponsible fools!
- The Doctor: But we're very experienced irresponsible fools.
"The Cheat is GROUNDED! We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off, not so you could throw lightswitch raves!"
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- I'm always all right.
- Is all right special Time Lord code for really not all right at all?
- You're all irresponsible fools!
- The Doctor: But we're very experienced irresponsible fools.
Ananda, I'll be honest -- Scandinavia is intriguing. But what about the dark days/light days ratio? I've gotten kind of used to sunlight year-round. It freaked me out a little when the sun never set while I was in Alaska....
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
aliantha wrote:Ananda, I'll be honest -- Scandinavia is intriguing. But what about the dark days/light days ratio? I've gotten kind of used to sunlight year-round. It freaked me out a little when the sun never set while I was in Alaska....
Just don't live in the woods and mountains far north and this isn't an issue. Here is a nice coast city in the mid southern area near where we live for weather, sun times and so.
Link doesn't work, so you have to paste it in I guess www.smhi.se/#ort=2723287,Båstad,Båstad, ... /12.833333
The boards doesn't like letters such as å it seems.
The site goes in english, too, but with less information, I think.
We have long days in sommar and shorter in vinter, but not like you are thinking.
Monsters, they eat
Your kind of meat
And they're moving as far as they can
And as fast as they can
Hmm. I may have to plan a visit.... I need to start working on my B-level destination list anyhow, since the only thing left on my A-level list is Ireland. I've been thinking about Iceland -- Iceland Air has direct flights from DC. But just to visit -- not to retire.
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
Tell me why the place where you live is so awesome that I'd be an idiot not to move there.
