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Post by Clipper on Oct 2, 2023 8:50:44 GMT -5
wibx950.com/is-new-york-a-top-destination-for-retirees/As much as I love NY I can't believe that people are tripping over themselves to relocate to NY in their retirement years. It might be for those with no concern for the high taxes and high cost of living. All I have read about in recent years is that people were abandoning NY in droves due to the corrupt political climate, high taxes, and cold winter weather. Don't get me wrong. I DO love NY and miss many things since leaving and moving South, but the winters, the cost of living and the high taxes discourage any ideas of ever moving back. Our retirement incomes go so much farther here. If you can discount all the negatives, there is not a more beautiful place on earth than CNY and the Adirondack mountains. We just returned from a camping trip to a local TVA lake. Sadly they have started drawing the lake levels down to accommodate the spring run-off from the surrounding mountains. When we reserved the site in August a person could stand on the shore and fish. With the winter draw-down we were force to fish from a small fishing pier and only caught a few small panfish. It has been very warm here and the larger fish have migrated to deeper and cooler waters. In order to fish from our campsite a person would have had to traverse about 25 or 30 feet of shoe sucking red clay muck. I yearned for the pristine Adirondacks and a sand or gravel bottomed lake.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Oct 2, 2023 10:26:20 GMT -5
I heard Arizona was a great place to retire. I miss Missouri actually Southern sections of the State. I wonder what effect the asylum seekers will change the minds of those wishing to retire here. Apparently we are expecting millions of migrants from Venezuela since there is widespread crime and dictatorship and no jobs. Should be interesting. The Gov was on TV little while ago and she is working with businesses to hire asylum seekers she already had businesses on her side.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 2, 2023 11:50:22 GMT -5
Nothing wrong with hiring asylum seekers as long as they are vetted and here legally and aren't dumped unexpected on a community by the busload. The Ozarks of Southern Mo would be a great place to retire. I visited there TDY once when my unit had a construction team doing a underground fiber optic cable installation job for the Army. I thought that rather odd at the time considering the fact that Fort Leonard Wood was the place that trained construction equipment operators for the army but couldn't find someone to operate a simple trencher with a cable plow.
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Post by BHU on Oct 2, 2023 12:33:53 GMT -5
Idk, maybe the appeal of Florida as a retirement destination is beginning to wear off with hurricanes ever year, homeowner insurers pulling out or raising the cost of policies sky high, rotten politics with a Governor who's a moron, Texas same thing, Arizona so hot in the summer people can't stand it, California with housing costs so high you have to be a millionaire to buy a house that isn't a shack etc.
CNY is on the comeback but the drug crisis & violent predators on the loose is discouraging people from moving into Utica & Rome. There have been some low income housing that has sprung up in Utica but the problem is that most of those places are populated with scumbags, dopers & criminals.
Winters in N.Y. aren't as bad as the use to be due to global warming, but the cost to heat your home is still quite high.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 2, 2023 15:03:06 GMT -5
Arizona is hot but it is a dry heat and you don't find it stifling like you do the humid and hot weather in other parts of the US. We lived in Phoenix for 4 yrs after my dad got laid off at CP. We loved it there but after 4 yrs he got laid off there too. Being a machinist and tool maker in a company that depends on defense contracts is a bit risky. When we moved back to NY he got back into CP and stayed there until he got his engineering degree. He then got into Univac and stayed there until he retired here in Bristol Tn after the Utica plant closed.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 3, 2023 8:24:16 GMT -5
I've run a manufacturing business in NY and it's hard for understand why anyone would want to do it today. Utica and Oneida County were always very helpful but the state people always seemed to feel that it was their job to make things difficult to do business in NY.
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Post by chris on Oct 3, 2023 12:59:45 GMT -5
Only plus I see is we dont have all the weather conditions to worry about like floods, hurricanes, fires, and tornadoes like other states do. Ill take a few days of snow occassionally.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Oct 4, 2023 8:33:07 GMT -5
We will probably stay here for the rest of our lives but that is mostly because 2 of our children and 5 of 6 grandchildren are here. State and local taxes are a killer. The biggest plus of our governor is that she does not grab the help by the rear and does not appear to have any Presidential ambitions. We took an extended vacation from winter this year and my arthritic hands loved it.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Oct 4, 2023 9:10:37 GMT -5
My sister's mother in law goes to Florida every winter. She leaved here right after Christmas and leaves Florida in April. She has a time share house in Florida that she rents out every year. My sister and her husband now spend March and April in Florida doing the same thing.
A lady who lives down the hall from me also goes to Florida to stay with her children and visit her grandkids. She leaves Monday and returns in Feb. She was telling me she may stay to April. All her kids live in Florida all 5 of them. She has a large family that she misses.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 5, 2023 20:58:18 GMT -5
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Post by kit on Oct 6, 2023 9:31:54 GMT -5
As the saying goes, "Florida is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." Nicer weather, lower taxes, or whatever, much of Florida isn't going to be there forever. It's a long, flat piece of land just peeking out of the water with not much height to it at all. With the climate changing and the glaciers melting, billions of gallons of water are going to raise the ocean's levels and sooner or later most, if not all, of Florida is going to be in the drink. Same with a good deal of the west coast shoreline.
It's already starting to happen and it could get critical next month or a hundred years from now. Either way, I'm happy to live in New York State - 1000 feet above sea level. It's rare to see hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme hot spells up here. I'd rather pay a little more in taxes for this insurance. And as far as corrupt politicians, they're everywhere if you look around.
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Post by Clipper on Oct 6, 2023 12:54:53 GMT -5
I was stationed in Key West for a year. Hotter than hell and the humidity could be cut with a knife. The highest point on the island was 16ft. They had wisely built the Naval Hospital on that high ground. The high ground didn't cover much ground. I would guess it was less than 1/3 of the island.
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Post by BHU on Oct 6, 2023 14:58:52 GMT -5
As the saying goes, "Florida is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." Nicer weather, lower taxes, or whatever, much of Florida isn't going to be there forever. It's a long, flat piece of land just peeking out of the water with not much height to it at all. With the climate changing and the glaciers melting, billions of gallons of water are going to raise the ocean's levels and sooner or later most, if not all, of Florida is going to be in the drink. Same with a good deal of the west coast shoreline. It's already starting to happen and it could get critical next month or a hundred years from now. Either way, I'm happy to live in New York State - 1000 feet above sea level. It's rare to see hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme hot spells up here. I'd rather pay a little more in taxes for this insurance. And as far as corrupt politicians, they're everywhere if you look around. And N.Y.S. isn't overun with alligators, roaches the size of your hand or Burmese pythons that have overun the State thanks to morons who kept them as pets then dumped then anywhere they could when the critters outgrew their cages. |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Oct 6, 2023 16:14:21 GMT -5
As the saying goes, "Florida is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." Nicer weather, lower taxes, or whatever, much of Florida isn't going to be there forever. It's a long, flat piece of land just peeking out of the water with not much height to it at all. With the climate changing and the glaciers melting, billions of gallons of water are going to raise the ocean's levels and sooner or later most, if not all, of Florida is going to be in the drink. Same with a good deal of the west coast shoreline. It's already starting to happen and it could get critical next month or a hundred years from now. Either way, I'm happy to live in New York State - 1000 feet above sea level. It's rare to see hurricanes, tornadoes, and extreme hot spells up here. I'd rather pay a little more in taxes for this insurance. And as far as corrupt politicians, they're everywhere if you look around. Yes I agree but New York City area will also be under water. |
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Oct 6, 2023 16:24:41 GMT -5
I lived in Albuquerque New Mexico for a year and a half. I was stationed there while I was Franciscan Brother since we had a house there with a soup kitchen along with a primary care clinic. Very nice weather I thought with low humidity and dry conditions. The two summers I lived there the temps reached 89 to 91 degrees but a dry heat. I remember a museum that was absolutely fantastic.
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