{"id":6286,"date":"2018-04-02T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T17:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2021-04-21T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:18:31","slug":"pleasant-places-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/pleasant-places-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant places to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pondering &#8220;pleasant&#8221; places to retire, and stumbled across Kelly Norton&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/kellegous.com\/j\/2014\/02\/03\/pleasant-places\/\">most &#8216;pleasant&#8217; days in a year<\/a>&#8221; post. Rather surprised that southern Louisiana rates as highly as it does, by this criteria. Saddened, but not surprised, that New Hampshire rates so low. I wish I could enter my own criteria. I don&#8217;t mind precipitation, for example.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kellegous.com\/j\/2014\/02\/03\/pleasant-places\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/kelly_norton_weather_map_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"582\" height=\"388\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southern Louisiana does look pretty good, except during the summer, when it&#8217;s uninhabitable. And of course southern California is a climatological paradise, but I don&#8217;t want to move back to California. Portland, OR is in the ballpark of Charlottesville, VA, but their &#8220;pleasant days&#8221; are spread evenly from May to October, while ours peak pretty sharply in May and September.<\/p>\n<p>Susan suggested we might become migratory, traveling between North and South as the season change. Maintaining two residences seems like such a massive waste of resources, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/gallery\/retirement\/2017\/02\/27\/best-places-to-retire-abroad-2017\/3.html\">Cuenca, Ecuador<\/a> keeps <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gringotree.com\/retiring-in-ecuador-read-this-first\/\">looking attractive<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/gringosabroad.com\/ecuador-real-estate\/\">Real estate<\/a> and the cost of living are both affordable. &#8230; Or <a href=\"https:\/\/gringosabroad.com\/what-to-expect-when-renting-a-house-in-ecuador\/\">maybe not<\/a>. Realistically, it&#8217;s unlikely we will move away from the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pondering &#8220;pleasant&#8221; places to retire, and stumbled across Kelly Norton&#8217;s &#8220;most &#8216;pleasant&#8217; days in a year&#8221; post. Rather surprised that southern Louisiana rates as highly as it does, by this criteria. Saddened, but not surprised, that New Hampshire rates so low. 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