Time to move again...
We have now retired fully, closed the last business, and find this resort town (and most of the rest of California) too expensive to live in. Too bad, because for the past year, this is almost the only place in the country with good weather daily!
Don't know where we will end up. Been looking for almost a year, now, across several states, in fact. Places that are beautiful, affordable and within our travel distance may be numerous, but there is always a problem.
For example: Redding, Clearlake, Lake/Shasta/Mendicino counties have all burnt. Ditto towns in Coconino National Forest in Arizona. Also several towns in Colorado and Utah that I researched. Further along the Pacific northwest is sitting between the tsunami zone and the volcanoes of the Cascadia Subduction fault. Flagstaff sits on the edge of an 1800 square mile super volcano caldera complete with 600 cones and vents. None of those has erupted for several hundred years....but neither had Soufriere on Monserrat in the Caribbean before 1995. Just sayin'.
Oh, and Sedona--an area I have always loved, thanks to Arizona Highways Magazine--besides being priced for folks wealthier than we are, appears to have magnetic (?) vortices on every hill. Never knew this when traveling through there before cell phones. Apparently many tourists come there to experience these phenomena rather than the magnificent views of Nature. California may not be the only land of fruits and nuts....I figure we could manage to fit in nicely, if we could afford it, LOL!
It turns out that without a pot of money, no other country wants people as old as we are. And while I was up for such a cultural change years ago, (and did it) don't feel up for the process now. Not even to change towns in the US, really. But that is probably only me having a tantrum about the whole 'growing older' thing. I'm sure I used to be much more adventurous before I had to worry about falling...or getting up off the floor once there....
Nope. Morro Bay is paradise. Now, if it were only cheaper to live here!
We have now retired fully, closed the last business, and find this resort town (and most of the rest of California) too expensive to live in. Too bad, because for the past year, this is almost the only place in the country with good weather daily!
Don't know where we will end up. Been looking for almost a year, now, across several states, in fact. Places that are beautiful, affordable and within our travel distance may be numerous, but there is always a problem.
For example: Redding, Clearlake, Lake/Shasta/Mendicino counties have all burnt. Ditto towns in Coconino National Forest in Arizona. Also several towns in Colorado and Utah that I researched. Further along the Pacific northwest is sitting between the tsunami zone and the volcanoes of the Cascadia Subduction fault. Flagstaff sits on the edge of an 1800 square mile super volcano caldera complete with 600 cones and vents. None of those has erupted for several hundred years....but neither had Soufriere on Monserrat in the Caribbean before 1995. Just sayin'.
Oh, and Sedona--an area I have always loved, thanks to Arizona Highways Magazine--besides being priced for folks wealthier than we are, appears to have magnetic (?) vortices on every hill. Never knew this when traveling through there before cell phones. Apparently many tourists come there to experience these phenomena rather than the magnificent views of Nature. California may not be the only land of fruits and nuts....I figure we could manage to fit in nicely, if we could afford it, LOL!
It turns out that without a pot of money, no other country wants people as old as we are. And while I was up for such a cultural change years ago, (and did it) don't feel up for the process now. Not even to change towns in the US, really. But that is probably only me having a tantrum about the whole 'growing older' thing. I'm sure I used to be much more adventurous before I had to worry about falling...or getting up off the floor once there....
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