Obviously, this thread applies to people who have worked and set aside a nest egg and want to get the hell out of the DC Metro rat race.

Its nice to retire to the Shenandoah Valley

I retired a few years back and sold my house. I was able to pay cash for a little house in Front Royal, still NOVA but out of the rat race. The Town of Front Royal is a dump but there are some nice neighborhoods just outside of town. The living is very inexpensive and laid back. I am retired but still able to put $1200 in savings every month for now anyway.

On the fringe Wrote:
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> I retired a few years back and sold my house. I
> was able to pay cash for a little house in Front
> Royal, still NOVA but out of the rat race. The
> Town of Front Royal is a dump but there are some
> nice neighborhoods just outside of town. The
> living is very inexpensive and laid back. I am
> retired but still able to put $1200 in savings
> every month for now anyway.


Love that idea.I would like to retire down in the Nelson county area.

No idea, doubt I could stand moving to cheap middle america place. The only thing worse than high priced elite nova people are the dimwits that populate rural America.

Front Royal look like a good place to bury victims in shallow graves but retire there? Nah. The shore - what the fuck does one do there? Maybe Park City, Maybe Monterey CA. Santa Cruz maybe. I have to be able to ski and climb - dont care about much else but minimize the rubes.

I'd like to go back near where I grew up (northeast TN/western NC) but the area gets worse and worse all the time due to either good ol' boy politics or all the methed-up hillbillies. Retiring there with a little money in the bank only sets you up as a target to be robbed. I'll likely settle (anonymously) somewhere along 66 or 81 within two hours or so of Dulles because I plan to still travel as long as I can in retirement.

We'll be checking these areas out in the next year and a half...

Scottsdale/Phoenix/Lake Havasu Arizona,
Denver or Ft. Collins, Colorado,
Savannah or Skidaway Island, Georgia,
Asheville or Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,
Nashville, Marysville or Loudon/Vonore, Tennessee,
Bellingham or Whidbey Island, Washington

Different spots in Costa Rica.

I too would like to retire back in Tennessee, Shenandoah Valley or Roanoke areas, but need to have reliable high speed internet, which means over 25 mbps and up. Trouble is that in rural areas high speed internet means something at very best like dial-up at under 3-15 mbps in most areas and they don't tell you what parts of town you have to live in to get the really useful high speeds (wireless or fiber, which is rare as diamonds in the interior lands), with good reliability for 25 mbps and up) before you have an address to check there. All the internet data centers are up here in NOVA. so we are used to great internet service. I knew of someone in the Roanoke Valley who had to go to Hughes satellite for business internet and it was always crashing, bad bad bad when your personal business requires fast internet all the time..

Hell, people out beyond Leesburg are always complaining of no decent internet available there, so I would hate to think of the dregs available far to the west and south valleys areas.

I too faced the same conundrum deciding where to retire years ago. I finally realized you must retire far enough away so they can't commute from there to NOVA. They already commute from eastern WVa and southern Pennsylvania so the Valley is soon to be ruined by the very shit you thought you were escaping. I saw the handwriting on the wall years ago and retired to a very conservative state in the Rocky Mountain West.

It's quite nice here except for fucking Californians arriving en mass to escape the Hell of their own making. Here it's possible to ski world class powder in the morning and golf in the afternoon. Herds of elk and moose are a common sight, and streams and rivers so clear you can see a dime on the bottom ten feet down. The weather this morning was 54 degrees at 7AM and rose to a high in the mid 80s with 22 percent humidity under deep blue skies. How are things back in the swamp? LOL

So far the area remains 95% white, 3% Native American and 2% other that don't belong here in the first place.

I would tell you where it is but low taxes and cost of living, a perfect four season climate, superb medical facilities, no Muzzies and few moolies all prevent me from disclosure that could bring ruination.

Jones Wrote:
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> Herds of elk and moose are a common
> sight, and streams and rivers so clear you can see
> a dime on the bottom ten feet down.

Moose are solitary animals. They don't travel in herds. You seem to be full of shit. They are also rare in the Rocky Mountains.

Is there a place they don't have negroes or liberals? That's where I'll go.

Blimmo Wrote:
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> Is there a place they don't have negroes or
> liberals? That's where I'll go.

Sure there is, it's called Utah. As long as you stay out of Salt Lake City, you'll be in the bosom of people who share your political proclivities and prejudices.

You should be prepared, however, for pesky annoyances like discrimination because you are not a Mormon (if you were, you wouldn't even be asking this); and the most bizarre liquor laws you'll encounter anywhere in this so-called free country. (Look up Zion curtains for a start).

But fear not, should such apple-cheeked wholesomeness disturb you, you can always keep company with the "jack Mormons". A shockingly large percentage of the state, they smoke, drink, swear, fornicate and generally shatter the commandments with abandon. You'll think you've relocated among liberal intellectuals in SoHo or Greenwich Village. But take comfort, they nonetheless also vote republican!

Ah, Utah, the beehive state. Such a serene place to spend your few short remaining years of life.

Retiring to the Virginian. Healthcare is top notch around here. Good resources for us old goats compared with the rest the country

I have a lot of rental properties that I manage myself. I can't see paying someone else to manage them for me! I might as well burn money if I did that. Property management companies in this area are criminals!

Don't think so Wrote:
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> Jones Wrote:
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> > Herds of elk and moose are a common
> > sight, and streams and rivers so clear you can
> see
> > a dime on the bottom ten feet down.
>
> Moose are solitary animals. They don't travel in
> herds. You seem to be full of shit. They are
> also rare in the Rocky Mountains.

He's probably some dumb redneck that lives in a trailer in Fredericksburg

This I have thought long and hard about. I know I will get a ribbing for even suggesting it, but my plan A retirement plan is to move out to either Beynac et Cazenac, or Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in France. They are small villages in Occitan and Burgundy respectively, and there are no nogs, or muslims within probably 50 miles of either of them. There are already plenty of retired Brits, Aussies and Canadians that live in these towns as well. Plan B is Benidorm, Spain. Pretty much the same situation applies to Benidorm as the other small towns in France. If none of these work out, I might look at the Williamsburg area as there are a lot of retirees that inhabit those parts and I hear it's pretty nice.

Moving to Montana soon...

you assume a logic fallacy that people bankrupt fx co then leave fx co to make room for illegals / the communist plan / democrat plan for fairfax

the fallacy that skipping town with money after fucking it up is 'normal'

AARP Wrote:
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> This I have thought long and hard about. I know I
> will get a ribbing for even suggesting it, but my
> plan A retirement plan is to move out to either
> Beynac et Cazenac, or Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in
> France. They are small villages in Occitan and
> Burgundy respectively, and there are no nogs, or
> muslims within probably 50 miles of either of
> them. There are already plenty of retired Brits,
> Aussies and Canadians that live in these towns as
> well. Plan B is Benidorm, Spain. Pretty much the
> same situation applies to Benidorm as the other
> small towns in France. If none of these work out,
> I might look at the Williamsburg area as there are
> a lot of retirees that inhabit those parts and I
> hear it's pretty nice.


Hmmm. I may add those to my search also.

What about Switzerland or Northern Italy?

Smith Moutain, Kerr or Lake Anna. I want waterfront.

I would like to move to Bullhead City, Arizona.

Astoria Oregon is awesome.

Oregon is full of left wing commie lib tree huggers..yuk

Ice hoo Wrote:
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> Oregon is full of left wing commie lib tree
> huggers..yuk

Fuck those DINOs...

Ice hoo Wrote:
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> Oregon is full of left wing commie lib tree
> huggers..yuk


Mostly just the bigger cities and college towns. The rest of the state is pretty conservative. Lot's of hunters and patriots in Oregon and Washington in the middle and eastern parts of the states.

The wife and I semi retired and manage a storage facility in central Virginia. They give you a apartment to live in at the facility and 450 dollars a week.

Oregon and Washington are redneck as fuck once you get away from the coastal cities.