Best college towns - to retire to

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Anonymous wrote:Ithaca, NY

+1. And wegmans is the regular grocery store!

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If you're a lefty, then Yellow Springs, OH Athens OH is fun as is Oberlin.

I always wondered what Davis, CA was like.

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Oxford, Mississippi. I have a condo right off the square that I can't wait to retire to! Amazing blues music & art galleys, southern dining (city grocery, boure, big bad breakfast, snack bar) one of the nations largest indepentant book stores (square books), its the home William Faulkner I could go on and on.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ithaca, NY

+1. And wegmans is the regular grocery store!

+2

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I may stay in DC but if I moved I thought it might be to Winchester, VA (Shenandoah University). Not too far to get back to DC, closer to the mountains, which I like.

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Anonymous wrote:Ithaca, NY

Nice town....Very nice in the summer, but brutal winters. However, if you can handle the cold, it would be a great place to retire to.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're a lefty, then Yellow Springs, OH Athens OH is fun as is Oberlin.

I always wondered what Davis, CA was like.

Far from things. How about Santa Barbara?

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Anonymous wrote:SW Virginia! Beautiful country, low cost of living, Southern charm and friendliness, slow pace. I've thought of Roanoke and Radford, my alma maters.

Yes, I agree. The pace of living and cost of living are both really attractive down there, and it's absolutely beautiful. Blacksburg is a great college town in SW Virginia as well.

How conservative is that area? If it was on the liberal side I'd retire there in a heartbeat. But my guess is it isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're a lefty, then Yellow Springs, OH Athens OH is fun as is Oberlin.

I always wondered what Davis, CA was like.

Hotter than shit in the summer. Brown and flat.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're a lefty, then Yellow Springs, OH Athens OH is fun as is Oberlin.

I always wondered what Davis, CA was like.

Far from things. How about Santa Barbara?

Yellow Springs OH is an awesome little town. Very quiet, walkable, hiking, fun festivals. It's close enough to Dayton if you want to go see a movie or go to the mall. VERY lefty.

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Chapel Hill.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SW Virginia! Beautiful country, low cost of living, Southern charm and friendliness, slow pace. I've thought of Roanoke and Radford, my alma maters.

Yes, I agree. The pace of living and cost of living are both really attractive down there, and it's absolutely beautiful. Blacksburg is a great college town in SW Virginia as well.

How conservative is that area? If it was on the liberal side I'd retire there in a heartbeat. But my guess is it isn't.

Blacksburg is moderate to liberal. Most college towns are. Go outside of Blacksburg, and you are in the 50's.

You can look how it voted online.

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UVA area is really hard to fly out-of. No major airport ~ hard to visit others in a different part of the country. Same for southwest Virginia, Williamsburg, etc

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're a lefty, then Yellow Springs, OH Athens OH is fun as is Oberlin.

I always wondered what Davis, CA was like.

Far from things. How about Santa Barbara?

Within two hours from San Francisco and Tahoe.

How about La Jolla?

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Charlottesville, VA
Charleston, SC
Asheville, NC