Originally Posted by B. Carfree

This is a fun thread with lots of interesting ideas. I'll just add my $0.02.

Check the medical community out very carefully before you leap off into the void. I didn't and it has created a bit of an inconvenience at times. OR is like a third-world nation in terms of the quality of health care (I used to teach at a medical school, so I know a thing or two about what is going on.) When I finally get close to my use-by date, I anticipate moving in order to be closer to decent medical care. Based on family and personal history, I should have a couple of decades before that is an issue, but some of you may have more immediate health issues that would make this more urgent.

I really loved Bluesdawg's comment about home is home. I feel that way about the Pacific Coast Range. As long as I am withing sight of these hills, all is right with the world. When I have lived elsewhere, I always yearned to return. Fortunately, it is a really loooong mountain range.

Having lived through the largest reduction in tax rates in history, I am amazed at all the people who want to live in places with the lowest tax rates. I remember high quality public schools, free and inexpensive state universities, smoothly paved roadways that didn't cause my bikes to break, traffic law enforcement, clean parks with restrooms, cities without homeless people sleeping in doorways and oh-so-many things that more civilized Western societies take for granted. A few more bucks in my account won't improve the quality of my life nearly as much as those things.