Personal Consumer Issues • insights on living in the Blue Ridge Mountain region?

There's a larger range:
South Carolina: Clemson, Greenville, Greer, Spartanburg corridor (I-85)
Tennessee: Chattanooga to Johnson City (favorable income taxes)
Georgia: Dalton
Alabama: East of Huntsville
Arkansas: Ozarks near Bentonville and Fayetteville
Virginia: Shenandoah Valley (I-81 corridor)

Other factors: Health care, proximity to a large airport with good domestic connections or even nonstop international flights (such as IAD or ATL), "university or lab town" (Oak Ridge, TN; Chapel Hill; Charlottesville), year round resident or snow bird.

For us, we'd want to be within 30-45 mins of a major airport and major university medical center which narrows things down pretty quickly (although medical care is changing very fast everywhere -- budget for concierge to help mitigate that). We would be in mountain states not southeast, but those are two things very high on our list anywhere.

Statistics: Posted by stan1 — Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:53 pm — Replies 3 — Views 208

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