Good places to retire? Sorry-long

There's plenty of other places in Oregon besides Lakeview to settle on. You just need to swing your pendulum a little bit the other way. Maybe not as far as Eugene or Portland, but there's plenty of other places. I have buddies who live in Central Oregon, around Madras and Terrebonne. Bend is the "big city" around there and they have a great hospital. I know, my sister spent a month there in the ICU after a 4 wheeler accident. I wouldn't pay much attention to whoever was talking about property taxes. Yes they can be spendy, but only if you build a new house in a new subdivision. Buy an older place out in the "sticks" with grandfathered rates and the property tax rates can be pretty low. I paid about $1,600 a year on $250,000 assessed value.