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Those are the choices whether you care or not.

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Bull. Tax cuts for the rich. Was that Biden?

Good. Ba-Bye!

Very good point which I am well aware of. College and uni towns often have a lot to offer although most of the better ones are above D list level. Madison WI is often listed as one of the best places in the country to live and/or retire but it's too freakin' cold for me. It's very true that very few states are solid blood red. There are always blue or mixed islands within them. But again these D list "dumps" are mostly red.

Maybe ask a diabetic dependent on insulin how much Biden has hurt them.

It's an astute point to call Biden a populist. A real one not a fake one like the grifter. Biden is no loser. See election results.

Yes. Understood. But the older I get the less I care about such things. However, I did note that Lafayette LA has a famous gay scene surprising for a small city and even a reform temple. But you bring up a great point really. D list towns and small cities are very likely to be very red state experiences. On the other hand I would probably love living in places like Asheville NC or Austin TX but there is no way I could afford to.

Says the troll that attacked me for what he thinks my politics are. Go away.

Go somewhere else to troll.

Umm. No.

Smaller towns rural areas etc may not have typical apartment rentals or very little anyway.

Tiny place but a bigger city in the vicinity is Victoria TX and that's well within D list boundaries.

Tucson seems like a great place to retire to me as well but it's above D list.

There is something else to consider as far as long term strategic planning. The topic here is for potential lower income returning retired expats. A possibly great option for such people is Senior HUD subsidized housing. This is not Section 8. These are specific buildings often affiliated with religious groups and some of them are quite decent. If approved your rent is 1/3 of your income. Assets are irrelevant to the rent. So a fantastic option for low income retired people. But as you might expect the supply of these units is much less than the demand. There are multi year waiting lists and specific rigid application processes. For example if you've ever been evicted, you are disqualified. So long term returning expats would not be in a position to realistically apply for such housing before building a local profile to support their application. I have no idea how HUD would view long term expats where they really can't track your record over those years. It might be a big problem, or not. I don't know. What I'm getting at is that for people that would benefit from HUD senior housing, it's worth researching whether a location has any or not and if it has any, is it any good? I assume rural areas and small towns probably wouldn't have any. So that's an argument for higher population places which generally will have some senior HUD housing. Of course no guarantees even if it exists, but worth adding to criteria. Realistically when you add building a local record and waiting lists, I guess this is not something that could happen before four or five years back in the U.S.

I've become Louisiana curious. Why? Well I've been there of course to New Orleans but it's much more than that. Most of the state if very poor. So if you move there poor, heck, join the crowd, maybe less depressing. Also the culture is so different. It could be like moving to a foreign country moving there. As expats we're used to that kind of culture shock. On the other hand moving to a fictional Middle American place like "Normal" Ohio wouldn't have that going on. For example, how about Lafayette, LA? Home of the Rajun' Cajuns!

Ideally the goal would actually be well under 1000 like 800 or even less because rents always go up and social security COLAS never make up for price rises. So yeah this topic is really only about D list places. Some D list places do offer more than others as far as possible activities. Like Huntington WV. As people are always getting older, there is a morbid consideration in choosing price levels that is kind of similar to choices made for when to take Social Security. If based on your current age and your current educated guess about life expectancy, one might choose to take a higher risk on a higher cost area which would mean spending down nest eggs faster. Of course for people with only a low social security check and no nest egg, choices like that are much more limited.

Then you don't know many Jews. Jews usually say visible Jews vs. assimilated ones. Also when there are spikes in Jew hatred as we have now many otherwise visible Jews take measures to avoid being targets of violence by stopping wearing kippahs in public, etc. Some Jews are so Jewy that there is nothing they could possibly do to avoid being visible as Jews.

Not true.

Yeah and that's but one example of the price shocks awaiting repatriating long term expats.

That's a good point about D list options. Crappy job markets and bad schools but if retired who cares. But there are also downsides like high crime and crumbling infrastructure, etc.

Yes that genocidal chant is pathetic and despicable.

They won't vote trump but they won't vote at all.

Yeah "the Thais" are one thing.

Keep it to one day in small designated roped off areas and all will be sabai sabai.