I can totally relate to your thoughts about moving also, @Tony Page . I lived out west for most of my life, except for a few years in Missouri. Besides my daughter, all of my family live in either Idaho or Washington, and I miss them all the time. We do iMessage and FaceTime, so that is great, but it is not the same as being able to actually give someone a for-real hug. I miss the mountains out west, too !
When Robin got out of the military, she settled here in Huntsville because there are so many excellent jobs for people who were in the military, and she works for contractors doing the helicopter simulator training. Because of that, she often works in other cities and other countries, and has been in the Netherlands for the last 4-5 years now, so we rarely see her anymore.
If you are used to living in the north, it is going to take adjustment to get used to living in one of the southern states.
Not having so much snow, ice, and cold all winter is wonderful, but all summer, there is a lot of humidity, which makes the heat worse. I try to do everything early in the mornings as much as I can during the hot months, and spend time in our little backyard pool to cool off.
The growing season is longer here, and you can grow more things that don’t grow in the north (like banana trees), but things that like the cold, like rhubarb, do not do as well here in the south.
Overall, Huntsville (Alabama, not Texas) is a good place to live.
It is a mid-size city, large enough to have everything , small enough to easily get around in. Because Redstone Arsenal is here, which has the headquarters for NASA, Missile Defense, and now Space Force, we have a lot of military and retired military, and probably some of the best doctors and hospitals anywhere , right here.
Even so, the cost of living is pretty cheap compared to other places, and even better than where I lived in north Idaho. Except for not being close to your family, I would recommend considering Huntsville as a place to move to, since you and your family all need doctors a lot and we have great ones here.
When Robin got out of the military, she settled here in Huntsville because there are so many excellent jobs for people who were in the military, and she works for contractors doing the helicopter simulator training. Because of that, she often works in other cities and other countries, and has been in the Netherlands for the last 4-5 years now, so we rarely see her anymore.
If you are used to living in the north, it is going to take adjustment to get used to living in one of the southern states.
Not having so much snow, ice, and cold all winter is wonderful, but all summer, there is a lot of humidity, which makes the heat worse. I try to do everything early in the mornings as much as I can during the hot months, and spend time in our little backyard pool to cool off.
The growing season is longer here, and you can grow more things that don’t grow in the north (like banana trees), but things that like the cold, like rhubarb, do not do as well here in the south.
Overall, Huntsville (Alabama, not Texas) is a good place to live.
It is a mid-size city, large enough to have everything , small enough to easily get around in. Because Redstone Arsenal is here, which has the headquarters for NASA, Missile Defense, and now Space Force, we have a lot of military and retired military, and probably some of the best doctors and hospitals anywhere , right here.
Even so, the cost of living is pretty cheap compared to other places, and even better than where I lived in north Idaho. Except for not being close to your family, I would recommend considering Huntsville as a place to move to, since you and your family all need doctors a lot and we have great ones here.
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I usually feel fine and don't care to hear that my BP is high and I need cholesterol medication that I'm not going to take, and I am pre-diabetic, blah, blah. Same stuff, different day. If I wasn't afraid of having a debilitating stroke I'd stop taking the stupid BP meds and to hell with it. 