I think Democrats might want to move to a lovely congressional district in Georgia. It's rural, just north west of Atlanta, and south of Chattanooga. About 100,000 or so could turn that district blue, and make it a nice place to live.
There are several 4 or 5 star local restaurants, some Applebees, and a short drive to Atlanta's Stone Mountain Park (where I attended a wedding). And best of all, there is a train museum! The median household income is just around $28,000 per year, and that combined with only two months of 1.5 inch snowfalls, it sounds like a great place to retire. Not much for apartments or condos, but several houses are available in the area for less than $200,000.
You can take a pleasant drive over to Representative Marjorie Tatlor Greene's Georgia office in Dalton. But she probably won't be there because her office address is just a PO Box.
Hot, bug infested, sticky and surrounded by illiterates is not how I want to spend my retirement years.
By the way, this is not strictly about being in the South either...I keep seeing spectacular deals on beautiful old homes in Illinois too, where my wife was born and raised, but it's hot, sticky and bug infested up there, too.
The literacy rate might be slightly higher but yeesh, the climate is ghastly.
Sure I could buy a 3500 square foot Victorian that still has all the old mahogany slab woodwork, brass fixtures, crystal and gorgeous flooring for all cash on the barrelhead and still have tons of money left over from the sale of our place here in L.A.
But location, location, location.
And most of these lovely homes are in horrible locations which is why they're so cheap.
A 50 thousand dollar Victorian manse is worthless if you're stuck in some dumb podunk town where people think it's funny to spray paint your door with antisemitic messages and the cops aren't motivated to do anything about it. (because they sympathize with the tagger's views)
