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My other idea was to sell everything and get a small RV and see the country for a while.  My wife is VERY VERY negative on anything related to RVs.  It has to do with their image in France.

Yeah, if you've ever watched the old BBC "Top Gear" or the reboot on Amazon, "Grand Tour", you see that the euro opinion of RV--or as they call them, "caravan"--is quite low 

I do like it here, fortunately, as we plan to be here a while depending on health etc.  She worries what might happen if I go first but I have pretty well provided for her.  She could sell this place and buy a 2 bdr in the same building if she wanted.

One aspect of where you are vs some 20 acre compound in north GA is that you are VERY close to emergency services.

My wife's mom & stepdad made the move up to southern OR, and as part of that (selling a property in SoCal) had the opportunity to build their dream house. It was well outside the city limits and rural. They were on roughly an acre or so I think... Had a gorgeous house. Everything they wanted. But as they started aging... And then things like snowstorms (even though they had a generator) happened... They started wondering what might happen if they had a health problem when nobody could get to them. They sadly ended up leaving there and moving closer to a place where they could be reached if bad things happened. Then moved out to the suburbs/exurbs of San Antonio but are still far more reachable by emergency services than where they were with their first house in OR.

As one ages, I think this is an important consideration. When 10, or even 30, minutes might be the difference between recovering with normal QoL and ending up in a pine box... You start to value living closer to civilization...

Ha. My brothers, parents and I live in four different time zones.   Population diffusion on a tiny scale.

So, South Carolina is, in my view, similar to NC in many respects, the mountains are not as high or tall of course nor as expansive.  The beaches are roughly comparable, no "outer banks" like place.  I have not been in Columbia before.  BMW is there, but the loss of the textile industry hit the state hard a few decades back.  I'd guess land is cheaper than in NC for a similar spot aside from Hilton Head.  

I have step kids and kids all along the west coast and one in Marseille and one in Columbus, Ohio.  A reason for moving here is the large airport.

If I lived 100 miles NE of here, the airport convenience thing would be ... less, but I wouldn't have had step kids (who I like).

Here I can be at the airport in less than an hour for one dollar.

The ATL is not the best for international nonstop flights of course especially to Asia.  But it's decent.  A lot of the flights are shorter haul connections of course.

Some overseas airports with a lot of international connections include Heathrow, Paris, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Dubai, Tokyo, Amsterdam, and no doubt some I'm missing.

Airport is one reason I've thought about retiring to Las Vegas - I'm not much of a frequent flyer and don't aspire to become one in retirement, but it could be nice
not sure if Vegas has many international flights, but I'm really not interested in that
of course my brother lives within 20 minutes of the airport in Dallas/Ft Worth