Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can generate a big list - poor medical resources, restaurants, culture, entertainment, food/grocery, rednecks, blight, crime, and the list goes on and on. If you can afford, it stay in a cosmo area.....$$ not everything especially in old age when you may not have much time left. Quality of life matters.

You can move to a nice suburb of Richmond for a Low cost of living and not deal with anything on your list.

Which suburb

Anonymous wrote:There is plenty of cutting edge medical research coming out of the south and many doctors prefer to live away from urban centers as their incomes also go further.

+1 Lots of doctors and other medical professionals from CA moved to FL, TX, and other areas during the pandemic. Some good friends from CA were forced to move because the husband is a doctor and his medical practice shut down due to overly strict COVID measures. They actually love living in FL and he got a salary boost so it all ended well even if they didn't want to move initially. The housing wasn't much less expensive though. FL housing prices skyrocketed and don't seem to be going back down.