OT retirement option question

Here's something that I've been pondering for days now while I've been in the hayfield wishing that I was anywhere but here. Is there any particular place that has a reputation for atracting farmers to live year round when they retire? I'm not talking winter time in Florida or Arizona. I mean a particular town,county,area of a particular state for farmers to spend their golden years with other retired farmers. It would be preferably in the Apalachians,Ozarks,Texas Hill country,someplace like that,even in the Rockies for that matter.
I really want to know,but if not,maybe Del Web should get started on just such a retirement village. Someplace hilly enough and with large enough lots so you can't see your neighbor. Trails all over to ride your 4 wheeler or golf cart to the general store/coffee shop/restoration parts store that doubles as a community center. Have RFD TV on the flatscreen,a library of I&T manuals,a shop out back with specialty tools that you wouldn't want to own yourself for no more than you'd use them. Maybe a greenhouse to grow plants for the women folks gardens and flower beds. I'm ready to call an auctioneer and a realtor and start making plans right now if there was such a place. Why wait to die to go to Heaven. I'd settle for a town where all of us hang out sitting in front of the General Store.

i like the arkansas - missouri area. bought about 6.5 acres near mountain home ark on lake norfork. real nice people there, good hunting, fishing, lot of cattle and haying going on there. gets pretty hot in the summer, but floatin around in the lake all day "ll keep ya cooled off!!

Sounds great! But you didn't mention bringing your favorite piece of old iron to ride to the general store. I think you're on to something.

Yep,we've got friends there. They have 50 acres with a Gamaliel address,but they built a new house up between the Armory and the High School in Mountain Home. The place is getting pretty built up though. Myself,I like it up around Tecumseh and Dawt Mill.Beautiful downtown Bakersfield is nice too. Good place to sit and whittle,spit for distance and talk about all the things you should be doing at home.

Sounds like fantasy land. You would have to be "in town" for that to work and have enough land to farm too.
Doesnt the great high tax state of Michigan do that all for you now. I know, I know, Too cold here, and Jenny Granholm is as dumb as a stump.

South Missouri theres still a lot of land that has places few and far between. Or you could be like me. I live 7 miles from town but my drive way is a mile long so I have no one close to me yet that is. I'm at the lake of the ozarks which this time of year is a pain. But if you get to the south east down close to Arkansas theres a lot of places that are miles way from any thing other then the pot growers LOL
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ohh...the lake house restaurant, freds catfish house, the blue pig barbecue, and gastens resort over on the white river.....just plain good eatin. was just down there 2 weeks ago. lake norfork is about 30 some odd feet over normal. i have property on the henderson side off 62 with a lake view. gotta chase the ticks, chiggers and copperheads out so i can clear some trees to start building.

The only place I know of that fits that description , you half to die to get there.

I ain't ever moving again! What a pain, especially if you have to build. I gave up baling hay, so I figure I added 5 years on to my life, and 15 more years before I have a nervous breakdown!

Well around here it is rather hilly,There is an old one room schoolhouse bordern my property fairly decent shape was a school in the mid 1800's til 1953 then it was a church for a few years, And its for sale. 3/4 off a maim road. Neighbors are very good here. I moved here a year ago and thought I'd died and went to heaven, finding real neighbors.
We could use a small grocery store, and a place to hang out [Back porch pickin and grinnen] The meanest critters around here are the redtails, I got whitetails in my back yard. There are a couple houses in the area close for sale, Towns are 8,10 17 ,and 23 mi.respectivly. Lots of farmland around me also.

Yep,been to Gastons. All the boat motors hanging up. I like the Brangus Steakhouse in Mountain Home myself.

HALF OF MY STORE BUSSINESS IS PEOPLE RETIRING AND MOVING INTO THIS AREA. LOCATED IN WESTERN TENNESSEE THE THE COST OF FOOD, ENERGY AND HOUSING ALONG WITH TAXES ARE VERY LOW COMPARED TO OTHER AREAS. LOTS OF OPEN GROUND THAT IS STILL PRICED VERY REASONABLE. SEE PEOPLE FROM CALIFORINA, FLORIDA, MICHIGAN COMMING HERE AND PURCHASING 25/ 30 ACRES AND BECOMING HOBY FARMERS
EVERY DAY. GOOD FOR ME THEY ALL THINK THEY HAVE TO HAVE A KUBOTA TO GET THE JOBB DONE.

In all my travels,I haven't gotten over there yet. As far as I've seen so far,the Cumberland Plateau in east Tennessee is as near to heaven on earth as I've personally ever seen. The west end of Dale Hollow Lake. Byrdstown,Possum Trot,Forbus,Pall Mall area. Trouble is,I don't know how clanish it is.I know when you stop in at the Forbus general store,they're more than glad to take your money,but I don't know how well loved you'd be if you moved there. I'd really be tempted to find out though.

sounds like you and i want the same thing. about 10,000 acres all fenced in with abundant wildlife, good soil for gardening, plenty of fruit trees already there, very hilly and rural...in the middle of town for convience. if ya find it, let me know.

I really do try to limit myself to trying to be helpful with technical questions, but...
Naturally, when you find such a place, you"ll want to tell your close friends and the relatives you like, and they"ll want to tell their close friends and relatives...and then you"ll need larger/more coffee shops, and traffic lights, and restricted parking, and community planning...
Maybe I"d better stick to technical questions...
With sympathy, Bud