<p>We like Wilmington, North Carolina.</p>
<p>Annapolis is charming; we loved it when we visited St. John’s. Don’t know what it would be like to live there and don’t know the politics.</p>
<p>There is nothing in Storrs,Conn.</p>
<p>Storrs = cows.</p>
<p>1sokkermom, I have a friend who just bought property in Wilmington NC. She says it’s really beautiful there, and good for people who want to live near water for boating.</p>
<p>Does anyone know anything about Columbia SC ?</p>
<p>As for Storrs, I personally like cows, but it is true that they’re not good conversationalists. But the real problem with Storrs is that it’s COLD.</p>
<p>i would encourage you to look into Evanston,IL</p>
<p>I lived in Evanston for many years when I was young. Nice town. But it is not cheap. It’s not the toniest of Chicago suburbs but it’s not far from it and has the advantage of being right on an El line giving you fast access to Chicago proper.</p>
<p>And if you’re into the arts, Northwestern is an entertainment mecca.</p>
<p>Wis 75, post #107, you might like Northampton, Massachusetts.
Five college consortium and all the liberals you’d ever want to meet. It’s near Amherst, MA and a hop-skip up to Vermont (40 min) or Boston (2 hours) or NYC (3 hours). The latter two cities are completely controlled and dominated by the liberal elite, I’m sure of it b/c Bill O’Reilly says so.</p>
<p>But there’s a 4 letter word, actually 2, reasons not to live in Madison- SNOW, and COLD. If we wanted 4 seasons it would be easy…</p>
<p>“liberal church” is still a church… So much of America revolves around the Sunday social clubs, good if you’re a believer, not if you disagree…</p>
<p>San Luis Obispo is a nice quiet college town with Cal Poly. The weather’s great, it’s close to the beach, and it’s a got a cozy small town feel to it.</p>
<p>It’s on the opposite side of the country you said you wanted to be on, but I’d just thought I toss it into the ring.</p>
<p>SLO is also about 40 minutes from my favorite getaway spot, Cambria.</p>
<p>It’s also less than an hour from that den of kitsch, Solvang, which is compensated for to some extent by the presence of the Hitching Post restaurant. Santa Barbara is only about another hour beyond that and LA another 2 to 2-1/2 beyond that, depending upon traffic. The Central California coast is one of the few non-urban places that could tempt me.</p>
<p>I found an article about Williamsburg becoming a retirement haven; it said that residents 60 and over may audit up to three courses free per semester. I would assume that that’s a State law that would apply to other public colleges and universities in VA as well. You know, this thread has been very helpful - there’s an article for the AARP magazine in here for someone!</p>
<p>hayden
S is attending USc in Columbia SC. We’re from NY and its a nice small capitol city.Undergoing major renovations downtown.Not on the coast,but not so far away.Reasonable housing prices. Nice planned lakeside communities right outside of downtown. Pleasant people, to say the least.Move in weather last August was hot and humid but S is basking in the early Spring now,has been wearing shorts for a few weeks already.
Pretty big name shows come through the city due to the Colonial Center venue on campus,and Broadway touring cos use the Koger Center also on campus. Theres a Symphony and Ballet company.Sports=Gamecock Football is huge huge huge.Baseballteam also highly ranked,basketball is another story.
Theres a minor league baseball team and minor league hockey too.
Decent food choices,some nice upscale restaurants w/o upscale prices.Some decent hotels and more being built.Nice small airport,but not too many direct flights.No decent urban mass transit system.Has an Amtrak station.
All the malls and big box stores you could want w/o the crowds Im used to at them.</p>
<p>Wis-- We are Unitarian Universalists; they charge you to find your own “truth”. If that is atheism (as we are), that’s OK with them.</p>
<p>When we lived in SoCal (80s) we stayed at the Shaw House (B&B) in Cambria; I wonder if it’s still around. We used to dream about moving to Carpinteria, as sleepy a coastal town as there was in those days.</p>