There isn’t anything that you will be happy with in any low-COL area.

Anonymous wrote:If you can tolerate cold winters, Ann Arbor Michigan is great. Just choose one of the suburban style neighborhoods to avoid the campus crush.

Have you been here since the pandemic?

Anonymous wrote:From your list, if lower COL and less snow are important, I would do Cary or Richmond though I’m not a fan of white, southern culture. Both areas have decent amenities, educated people, arts, etc.

Personally, I may just suck it up and rent in Southern California.

Cary and Richmond were very Southern twenty years ago. Very transient now.

Anonymous wrote:I have never liked my visits to Richmond. I think Philly would be fine but is that lower COL? Reno is boring but definitely NV would be lower cost of living.

Cary, NC sounds interesting. I'm also interested in the PNW.

Philly is much lower CoL and they have terrific museums, restaurants and parks. It is a great old city.

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Anonymous wrote:About to retire within a year or two. Both introverts and don't need/want a lot of social interactions with other people. Politically, left leaning Independents. Want to avoid high COL/populated area. Any thoughts? I am wondering if some place like Washington State.

Blue states only

Red will not be safe

Some of the blue states have areas riddled with crime

But you can find safe cities in blue states.

Red state politics affect the whole state.

Cut and pasted this from a Forbes article published earlier this year. Nine of the fifteen are in red states.

15 Most Dangerous Cities in the US

St. Louis, Missouri
Birmingham, Alabama
Baltimore, Maryland
Memphis, Tennessee
Detroit, Michigan
Cleveland, Ohio
New Orleans, Louisiana
Shreveport, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Little Rock, Arkansas
Oakland, California
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Kansas City, Missouri
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Richmond, Virginia

Cary/Morrisville NC might tick off a lot of your boxes. Lots of Asians, esp. Indians (Jay Chaudhuri is our state senator). There's not a lot of crime. There are cute town centers with lots of amenities, but it gets country real quick (with real farms) outside of those centers. There are even parts of Raleigh that are farmland (on the outskirts, anyway).

Anonymous wrote:If you can tolerate cold winters, Ann Arbor Michigan is great. Just choose one of the suburban style neighborhoods to avoid the campus crush.

Also depending on your age for retirement, the university hospital has an excellent geriatric practice / center .

If you can tolerate cold winters, Ann Arbor Michigan is great. Just choose one of the suburban style neighborhoods to avoid the campus crush.

Google H-Mart/Lotte locations and go from there.

How about Houston, Texas. Decent Asian population, not too expansive and warm.

Hawaii

How about SoCal a bit inland? Like Chino Hills or somewhere?

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t it bad to not have social interactions as you age? And I imagine it would be 100x worse after your spouse passes if you do not have children nearby.

Don’t start with the emotional blackmail.

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Anonymous wrote:If you can tolerate dry but hot summers and want no income tax, check out DFW suburbs of McKinney, Frisco, Plano, Coppell, Allen, which are surprisingly very diverse, and access to excellent medical care.

I thought Dallas was humid in the summers. They have those thunderstorms in the afternoon like we do in the DC area.

Nope. Summer of 2022 we didn’t have rain for like 100 days.

Isn’t it bad to not have social interactions as you age? And I imagine it would be 100x worse after your spouse passes if you do not have children nearby.