Where Is The BEST Place To RETIRE?

[mtnhomechick]

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I second that motion. You must be near Mtn. Home. Our taxes with the rebate were 39.00. Honest. We have a 1250 sq. ft. home on 4 acres.

Sold a big, fancy place in WI. where taxes are 6,000.00. Bought this place I LOVE for a literal song. Docked the boat on Norfork. DH walks out the back door to go hunting........used to be hunting at our cottage in N. WI. which was beautiful but expensive. And alot of work for me.....cooking, packing him up etc.

I LOVE the people here. Love Norfork and Bull Shoals and ALL the rivers. I never got homesick. Been here a year.

We licensed ALL our vehicles for 75.00. Less than it cost us for one in WI.

Just drove to Gainesville, MO yesterday.....half hour drive to get feed and gas....2.58 gal.

Gol.........how can ya go wrong. I LOVE THIS PLACE.


One of the best kept secrets.........Mountain Home, AR.

 

[speckledhen]

One of the best kept secrets.........Mountain Home, AR.

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Oops, secret's out!​

 

[mtnhomechick]

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Oops, secret's out!

Cyn,
Dh had to DRAG me here 6 yr. ago. I made bad jokes all the way. Stayed at Teal Point Resort for a day and went property hunting.

That week we bought 3 acres Lakeview.......Main Channel Norfork Lake.....and always planned on building.

BUT.......we bought 2 400cc Scooters and the land was down a gravel road. So, I sold the business two years ago and came down here and bought this place. DH retired last August. We still have the land. Sad to say it was worth a whole lot two years ago........who knows now....but we don't need to sell it anyway.
I am serious ..........this is great here.

I have been to Asheville and Black Mtn. there..........it was gorgeous. OMG the Blue Ridge Parkway.

This is where I'm hangin' my hat tho.

Are you near Asheville? Loved the Biltmore Mansion.

 

[jjthink]

Thanks for this interesting thread. I am speechless at the low taxes some of you are quoting! Certainly makes me want to invest in those places.. I can't fathom how anything (government, taxes) gets paid for with taxes so low but clearly it's happening so there must be some smart management out there. For my small cape cod on just 3/4 acre in NJ I pay more than $10,000 in property taxes annually. It was around $2,000 when I bought my house in 1986. Pretty painful.

The milder winters in NC, SC, etc sound most enticing but I often wonder how difficult the summers are - the heat and humidity "up here" in NJ pushes the envelope as it is. Too many days with heat indexes in excess of 100 degrees. Dew points through the roof. Just dastardly - if I wanted to live in the Amazon, I'd live in the Amazon. And yet it seems I do. Fretting constantly about the birds.

I am dreaming of a place with milder winters but that also has summers no worse than here!!
JJ

 

[speckledhen]

I'm a couple hours from Asheville, I think, maybe less, mtnhomechick. I'm right AT the NC border.

 

[mtnhomechick]

Mountain Home has 4 seasons. It snowed twice last year. But, we don't shovel......it melt's the next day. Everyone just takes a Holiday.

It's warm here in the summer and humidity can get high. No worse than WI. tho. At least I didn't think so.

My advice............get a pool!

Right now we are having Autumn in the Hills. Should peak in a week or so. Beautiful.

 

[Lunachick]

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[Lunachick]

Sorry, BYC is very SSSLLLOOOWWW tonight, I really just wanted to ask you KOxxx where are you from and what made you decide on Arkansas? We've have been thinking about that area lately, and am just wondering on what made you decide.

 

[k0xxx]

mtnhomechick wrote:
I second that motion. You must be near Mtn. Home. Our taxes with the rebate were 39.00. Honest. We have a 1250 sq. ft. home on 4 acres.

Yep, we're about 50 miles to the east, in the Hardy area. We really love it here.

Lunachick wrote:
Sorry, BYC is very SSSLLLOOOWWW tonight, I really just wanted to ask you KOxxx where are you from and what made you decide on Arkansas? We've have been thinking about that area lately, and am just wondering on what made you decide.

We are originally from the area just southeast of New Orleans. After doing our research, we picked this area for mainly, the low cast of real estate, taxes and cost of living.

I had a a very limited savings and would be subsisting on a very small pension and SSI, so we looked for an area where we could purchase our home and small acreage outright, and not be killed by taxes. The mild weather was a definite plus also.

Since moving here in 2000, our taxes have actually decreased, thanks to a recently passed exemption for primary residences.

Our first snow after moving here in 2000. It was gone two days later, but for a New Orleans boy, it was fun!​

 

[Chicabee19]

East end of the Columbia Gorge, Oregon: more sunny days in winter than anywhere else in the N.W. except for:

Sequim, Washington.

Both are retirement destinations.

Both are in a major rain-shadow and weather is practically identical, except Col. Gorge temps in summer tend to be hotter.

Both places are fairly identical to the South of France, and both grow lavender and fruit.

Hottest it's been since I moved to Col Gorge? 117 degrees.