Retirement - Knoxville TN or Greenville SC

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Anonymous wrote:Would like to retire in a place where we can build a small, one-level single family house walking distance to library, restaurants, festivals, friendly, reasonable cost of living, good access to medical services, college/university close by. Greenville SC and Knoxville TN come to mind. Thoughts?

Neither place is friendly because there are MAGAs there.

Avoid the south!

of course there are you idiot. there are representatives of both parties everywhere, even in hell holes like DC and california.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless you’re a republican , stay out of the south. They will pretend to like you if you make it known you’re a progressive Dem, but the second any kind of widespread social chaos or breakdown of social order happens, they will kill you. It will be like The Purge movies. I’ve literally heard this from people in the south. They’re content to get along with neighbors who are northerners and Democrats while everything is calm, but as soon as society breaks down they’re going to kill their neighbors. They are planning to do this. It’s premeditated.

tin foil hat, anyone?

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I am from SC and my parents live there. The medical care is horrible. Retiring to SC is a terrible idea.

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Look at Nashville, Franklin area

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure Greenville is that inexpensive. Is it important to you to build a house vs buy one? Why? I’m not sure that’s usually compatible with walkability.

Greenville is way, way too Southern for me too for the record. I would never want my kids to grow up there.

My mom likes with us and needs a handicap accessible house. Thought it would be easier to build a small, one level house with those specifications which we would also use to age in place.

I live in a walkable neighborhood in a Southern town, not too different from the ones you mentioned, and buildable lots in the walkable neighborhoods are very rare. Tear downs are very common, though, which means it’s certainly doable, but probably more expensive than you’re thinking. Especially after covid, the cost of real estate in any these attractive Southern towns has risen dramatically, and they aren’t the bargain they used to be. Nicely renovate houses in my neighborhood a few blocks from downtown sell for @ $575 a square foot. There are cheaper houses being built in cookie cutter subdivisions on the edge of town, but that’s not what most DC types have in mind when they consider retiring to a smaller “lower cost of living” town.

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Anonymous wrote:Bring your bible.

Another drive-by “we’re more sophisticated than those southern bumpkins” post.

You are projecting your own insecurities. Greenville is deeply religious compared to the DC metro.

The entire south is flyover country.

Classic DCUM racist response. You know the blackest states by % are in the South, right??

Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining!

I have close family in the Greenville area. Black people exist but they sure don’t live in the same neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:Bring your bible.

Another drive-by “we’re more sophisticated than those southern bumpkins” post.

Well ... we are.

Did you know there are people out there who read that book and take it literally? Like, they have all these superstitions and worship some dude they think became a zombie 2,000 years ago? Whose mother got pregnant without having sex? That they think there's a magic man in the sky judging all of us all the time?

Crazy, ain't it?

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Anonymous wrote:Bring your bible.

You make that sound like a problem.