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847badgerfan

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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #182 on: January 25, 2026, 02:36:04 PM »
Oregon?
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #183 on: January 25, 2026, 08:11:21 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 25, 2026, 02:36:04 PM
Oregon?
Personally, I would love to retire to Oregon or Washington. I feel like it is the perfect climate and the most beautiful locations. But I also feel it would be a tough sell to the woman.
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« Reply #184 on: January 25, 2026, 09:06:36 PM »
and probably not the taxes of Cali
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« Reply #185 on: January 26, 2026, 09:09:48 AM »
Quote from: MaximumSam on January 25, 2026, 08:11:21 PM
Personally, I would love to retire to Oregon or Washington. I feel like it is the perfect climate and the most beautiful locations. But I also feel it would be a tough sell to the woman.
The weather sucks in those places. Unless you like cool/cold and damp, of course. If so, it's perfect.
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #186 on: January 26, 2026, 09:52:14 AM »
beat the hell outta the weather in NW Iowa last week
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #187 on: January 26, 2026, 09:53:33 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 26, 2026, 09:09:48 AM
The weather sucks in those places. Unless you like cool/cold and damp, of course. If so, it's perfect.
Yeah that's definitely not "the perfect climate" for me, but everyone has their preferences.
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #188 on: January 26, 2026, 10:38:01 AM »
Oregon and WA include areas that are deserts over the mountains.  The Willamette valley area has decent weather also, a bit overcast for me, but still OK.

My daughter in Vancouver says the weather there is "OK", often overcast.

Atlanta gets more rain than Seattle.
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« Reply #189 on: January 26, 2026, 10:43:11 AM »
Yeah, where my in-laws used to live in Southern OR (Medford being the most well known town around them) was dry and hot (sometimes >100) in the summer, and cold enough to get a little snow in the winter.

I used to go up to Spokane visiting customers and that weather wasn't anything like Seattle. 

IMHO someplace coastal though is going to be much more temperate year round. The difference between the PNW coast vs the Central/SoCal coast is just going to be that it never really gets hot at all in the summer, a lot more rain, and the overnight lows in the winter will be a lot chillier. 

For someone like me, who is much more tolerant of a little chill than too much heat, I could make it work. For someone like utee who thinks SoCal is too cold, I'm guessing not. 
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #190 on: January 26, 2026, 10:51:10 AM »
Ideal weather however defined comes with a price tag.  Where we visit in Hawaii is "near ideal", to me, but gets boring, to me.  And it's expensive in terms of living there.  And boring.

California has a lot of nice weather spots, I like the general area two hours east of SF.  Weather of course isn't the only factor.

Our fantasy baseball teams bused up to Tampa to play the Yankees a couple weeks back and I was tabbed to pitch, it felt cold, to me, and was very windy, unpleasant really.  My wife was bundled up with hand warmers along with the other wives.

I had to step off a couple times because of the wind gusts.
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #191 on: January 26, 2026, 10:58:34 AM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on January 26, 2026, 10:51:10 AM
Ideal weather however defined comes with a price tag.  Where we visit in Hawaii is "near ideal", to me, but gets boring, to me.  And it's expensive in terms of living there.  And boring.
I couldn't do Hawaii. It's too boring on its own and it's too far from anything else when you invariably have gotten bored. 

It's a nice place to visit, but not where I'd ever retire. 

And as for "price tag", that's not a monetary statement. If I were a billionaire, I still wouldn't retire in Hawaii. 
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #192 on: Today at 11:20:31 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on January 26, 2026, 09:09:48 AM
The weather sucks in those places. Unless you like cool/cold and damp, of course. If so, it's perfect.

Better than hot and damp, like here, for my money.  
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #193 on: Today at 11:38:49 AM »
Fortunately we both like it here, but not today.   
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #194 on: Today at 12:02:25 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on Today at 11:20:31 AM
Better than hot and damp, like here, for my money. 
Yeah I'm taking rainy and pleasant over hot and humid and sweaty nearly all the time. The downside is probably the lack of good heavy rain and thunderstorms. I'm not sure how much sunshine they get in the winter, either. I don't need much but I remember being in Alaska and being bothered that I never saw the sun.

But check out this: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1968-State-Route-105-Aberdeen-WA-98520/305101143_zpid/

Waterfront property on five acres for $545K? Could do worse!
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Re: Where To Retire?
« Reply #195 on: Today at 12:05:10 PM »
The further north you go, the less sunlight you get in the winter (compared to further south--obviously everyone gets less sunlight in the winter). I've heard from a lot of people who tried the Pacific Northwest, but didn't like it, that the amount of sunlight in the winters was one of the key reasons. Personal preference, of course.
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