Relocating from California in 2025

Teacher Terry said:
If you are going over the mountain in winter, you do have to watch the weather as sometimes in a bad snowstorm people need chains. I just choose never to go over the mountain in bad weather. If you have all wheel drive, then you don’t need chains or if you have winter snow tires that’s all you need. I don’t need the stress of going over the mountain when there’s a big storm. There’s always plenty of warning about the storms.

That’s the nice thing most of the snow stays in the mountains so I can stay in the valley and look at the snow and not have to drive in it. It is fun to go up to Lake Tahoe in the winter to snowshoe or sled.
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Hi, you are right, snowy mountains could be easily avoided. As a matter of fact, I hardly get outside even being in LA. Should get out more, but I don't. And when I do, I walk. So having cooler nights is an advantage as I could walk in the mornings, just like you've mentioned. It all sounds good until one checks websites for natural disasters. Turns out there have been 77 of them in NE between 1953 and 2019, mostly fires, floods and earthquakes. This does concern me.
I have checked RE prices for condos and townhouses. Would love to live in a newly constructed townhouse, but they start from $397K, most are on Orchard Rock Dr. Washoe County. Is it a good area to live? My plan though was to find something under $300K and have some $$ left to live on as my ss benefits would not be sufficient. But I have poor experience living in a 1986 building. So new construction is very tempting.
I am very grateful to you for giving me so much detail on different aspects of life in Reno. Thank you.
 

I lived in California for a while many years ago. I left it for another state and am happy with my choice. But, I can say that after visiting many other states, while I won’t be going back to California, it is certainly a better choice than many of the ones I have visited and worked in during my life. IMO, their state moto should be “What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger”. The state made me stronger,
 
LadyRecluse said:
Hi, you are right, snowy mountains could be easily avoided. As a matter of fact, I hardly get outside even being in LA. Should get out more, but I don't. And when I do, I walk. So having cooler nights is an advantage as I could walk in the mornings, just like you've mentioned. It all sounds good until one checks websites for natural disasters. Turns out there have been 77 of them in NE between 1953 and 2019, mostly fires, floods and earthquakes. This does concern me.
I have checked RE prices for condos and townhouses. Would love to live in a newly constructed townhouse, but they start from $397K, most are on Orchard Rock Dr. Washoe County. Is it a good area to live? My plan though was to find something under $300K and have some $$ left to live on as my ss benefits would not be sufficient. But I have poor experience living in a 1986 building. So new construction is very tempting.
I am very grateful to you for giving me so much detail on different aspects of life in Reno. Thank you.
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I don’t know anything about the area or townhouses you asked about. If you are going to buy new construction here, it’s going to be expensive.
 

officerripley said:
20,000 sounds pretty good. For me, I'd want a place big enough to have a good hospital and library. As to how friendly the neighbors are, sometimes you get lucky with good ones, sometimes you're not so lucky and they're all introverts, and tragically sometimes they're worse than introverts; it's all luck, really. (When I moved here, it seemed pretty friendly compared to where I grew up, but I had someone who'd lived in both small towns and one big city that she found this place to be the unfriendliest she'd ever lived in. IDK why that would be, maybe because it's a university town, who knows?
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I guess it depends on where you buy your home but our criteria was to have a good hospital not two hours away. To have all the necessities for living not too far. It's how we made the decision to land where we did. It's all within a 40 min drive but that's because we wanted to be in the country.

The city the hospital is in has a 50K population. It's very southern but some of the nicest people to run in to most of the time. Whole conversations can get going with a total stranger.

I can't say the same for the area we moved from. Southern as the day is long but insular to the point that outsiders are just that, outsiders. And they really didn't have anything to be all that proud of.
 
The counties in gold and perhaps others are going to have big changes in health care once a trillion $$$$ starts to go away in 2027 and the likely hood that far less people will have insurance as soon as January 2026 leave even fewer paying customers.

States that are "poor" are also going to have a much harder time after disaster strikes as FEMA $$$$ will be replaced by state money.

"Through the first six months of this year[2025], disasters across the United States caused more than $100 billion in damage, the most expensive start to any year on record, it found. Fourteen disasters each caused at least $1 billion in damage through the first half of the year, the researchers found."

That's only 6 months w no 2025 hurricanes in the mix yet.


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Welcome from Staying put in California. ;)

If you find someplace to recommend please let us know. I'm in the Berkeley and love our benign temperatures most of the time since I'd live outside if I could.

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MarkD said:
Welcome from Staying put in California. ;)

If you find someplace to recommend please let us know. I'm in the Berkeley and love our benign temperatures most of the time since I'd live outside if I could.

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Very nice view indeed...I hope that is the view from your house...
 
OldOld said:
Very nice view indeed...I hope that is the view from your house...
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I wish but no we are very sensibly in the flat lands. We have an elevator lift to our upstairs deck from the driveway so we're all set to age in place. We used to come up here to Volmer Peak in Tilden Park to walk our dogs very frequently. That was the view from the path coming back down. And here is a photo from our favorite trail though the land can't compete with the sky in this one.

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And another of a couple of our old dogs. Now we're down to one young one.

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Also where about are you and just how old is OldOld? Am I a young one or way over the hill at 72?
 
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Ashland, Jacksonville, and Medford, Oregon have large senior communities. Ashland suffers from politics and too many deer which some people don't like. Medford has two regional hospitals and Jacksonville has the Britt Festivals.
 
Thank you for sharing. I spent much time looking only to find that there is something unacceptable everywhere. Feel like I need to stop looking for a while. Thank you again.
 
Happy Heart said:
Ashland, Jacksonville, and Medford, Oregon have large senior communities. Ashland suffers from politics and too many deer which some people don't like. Medford has two regional hospitals and Jacksonville has the Britt Festivals.
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Thank you for the info. At this point, of all nearby cities I like Medford the most. My only concern is smoke that comes from fires and stays in the valley for a while.
 
MarkD said:
I wish but no we are very sensibly in the flat lands. We have an elevator lift to our upstairs deck from the driveway so we're all set to age in place. We used to come up here to Volmer Peak in Tilden Park to walk our dogs very frequently. That was the view from the path coming back down. And here is a photo from our favorite trail though the land can't compete with the sky in this one.

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And another of a couple of our old dogs. Now we're down to one young one.

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Also where about are you and just how old is OldOld? Am I a young one or way over the hill at 72?
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I am 65, but I am not looking for a retiree community. On the contrary. I'd prefer to live among people of different ages. :)
 
LadyRecluse said:
I suppose I meant big enough to safe someone's life without the necessary to be transported somewhere else.
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Our rural area has a good hospital w a helicopter on the roof to get one to Boise if necessary. There is cheap insurance to pay for the transport if that becomes necessary. As far as medical care the number of drs and particularly ob-gyn in rural areas is insufficient and declining, dentists as well.
 

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