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What areas do you guys consider as good retirement Freepertowns?

That depends on your inner core re likes and dislikes.

If your sons and/or daughters have a good relationship and you love your grandkids and vice versa. You need to be close but not too close. We live an hour away, and that works out. We see other grandparents, who have moved to be in the same city as the grand kids, becoming full time baby sitting grand parents and drivers for the kids. Some are happy with that, and many are tired/worn out and basically unappreciated by the parents and often the grand kids.

Our church is our social core, and we need a good active/friendly church that is based on the bible not a liberal or some off the wall church that instead of charging you up after a service, depresses you.

Weather is very important to us. We like to do outdoor activities and do not want to live an area requiring AC from May to Nov, and heating from Nov to May. We lived in tornado areas, while growing up, and we don't want that again. So we take our every 15 to 25 year earthquake.e love the ocean, walking on ocean beaches, kayaking in bays and fishing. Yet we don't want to live in a tourist town on the beach. So our one hour drive to the beach works out great. Two decades ago, I got an excellent early retirement, and the property values in our area were excellent. Selling our home would have been easy, and we could buy in most areas we were interested in.

Our adult children lived in Oregon and loved it. I fly fished and hunted, an my wife like to go along to be in the outdoors. So, Oregon seemed like a good fit, and we thought about the Portland area suburbs, about an hour away. Fortunately, one of our sons warned us about the weather re the rain and winter from the end of October to about June. He, also, warned us about the left wing political situation. He gave us a 3 month subscription to the Oregonian Newspaper. Before the 3 months were up, we knew that the Portland area was too liberal for us.

Then, we checked out the Medford and Brookings areas. The areas were conservative and in beautiful areas. Again, after reading the local newspapers, it was evident that the Oregon left wing tax suckers took money from the good people in those counties to spend it in left wing hell holes up north. It didn't take a rocket scientist to see that in 10 years or less, conservative counties/cities in S. Oregon would stretched thin re police and keeping up the infrastructure. That has happened in spades.

Southern Oregonians and Northern Californians are again seriously looking at seceding and forming the State of Jefferson to control their future and not be the tax slaves for the liberals controlling the two states. In the meantime, the weather and high income taxes in Oregon took their tool on our Oregon off spring. They now live 1 hour away and 30 minutes away..

If weather is critical, visit a potential retirement place in the middle of summer and again in the middle of winter. Doing that eliminated other options. One season might be great and the other miserable. I got to do this for free and got paid. After retirement, I did consulting and basically got to pick my one week sites of work. That eliminated Arizona, Nevada, Floriduh, the beautiful shoretown of SC, and the Peninsula of Washington.

So we decided to stay where we live, with a great climate, a church we love and our core of friends, most are from that church. We avoid contact with liberals.