re: Which areas of the country--and maybe even a specific area would you move to factoring in

Mountain View AR
or
North Georgia

Have friends in Raleigh NC.
amazing place.

Boise Idaho

3 pages and no one has said Bawcomville?

Alpharetta/Milton, GA

Very happy where I am in Virginia, out in the country 30 mins from the downtown of a mid-sized city and 12 mins from shopping, a couple of great bars and various restaurants.

- 4 season's climate, although winters recently have been milder w less snow (pros / cons); plenty of rain, no extremes like hurricanes, droughts
- does get hot / humid but usually for only a couple months or so
- 90 mins from DC, endlesss things to do there
- an hour from the bay
- 3 hours to the outer banks
- 5-6 hours away from Myrtle Beach, Charleston
- Dulles Airport 90 mins away
- abundance of clear, rocky rivers for whitewater paddling, flyfishing
- mountainbiking park 10 mins away
- My boat in it's slip at the lake 40 mins away
- Mountains (hiking, biking, skiiing, the AT, Skyline and BRP) a little over an hour away
- Disbursed (free) mountain camping a little over an hour away
- Fantastic state parks
- Abundance of wineries, breweries, distilleries, cideries within an hour
- Weed is legal, I have a nice grow room with Amnesia Haze, Blue Dream, and Gorilla Glue flowering up right now.
- Ability to get to numerous Fortune 500 cos within 30 mins, more within an hour (I've worked for 5 diff ones in the past 40 years)
- Commute not bad, but no way would I work very near DC; I'm near 95 which is great most of the time, but whole family all knows the backroads to avoid backups
- COL isn't bad, taxes I guess a little high
- Public schools are excellent, no need for private, colleges are numerous, affordable and excellent
- Health care excellent
- Live in a high inccome/low poverty rural county that doesn't subdivide less that 10 acres in 90 % of the county. Real estate is a little high and in demand, but there's not much of it ever for sale.
- Miles and miles of curvy, hilly rural roads around me for cycling or getting out my ZRX or the old hot rod on.
- My home county is a 2A Santuary County, conservative farming, rural, glacial growth by design.
- Bottom line, I shoot, hunt, fish on my property and ride the 2 miles of trails on my ATV or Jeep any damn time I want to.


I think I did alright. If my acreage were a little hillier, that's all I'd change.

It's Friday night, been outside all afternoon, Got a fire in the barrel outside the shop, foosball on the tube, and honky tonk in the air (it's 43 degrees and clear out).

I live in NW Arkansas and it checks most of those boxes except there are very few places you can travel to on direct flights and multi-leg flights are long and expensive.

We have some condos in Hot Springs and love that town. It’s only about 2 1/2 hours from my permanent residence, but when I retire, I would t mind spending a few months a year up there. There is just so much to do. I’m

If I were ever going to move, which isn’t likely, I would move to Franklin, TN. Have visited friends there who love it.

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I want to get out of the concrete parking lot of Houston. I want big woods, clear running streams and rivers, and elevation change. Just big enough to have a good grocery store and Amazon 2nd day delivery.

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