On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 6:38:41 PM UTC-5, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 4:16:14 PM UTC-7, Bill T wrote:
All of those places are in the PRK, People's Republic of Kalifornia. Think taxes and relative cost of living. Grass Valley, Williams area and north to Mt Shasta are nice, but suffer with wintr valley fog.

I would consider Minden area or Moriarty. Minden opens up the NV Great Basin area for summer and they are always running the thermal or wave down to Bishop, Lone Pine and return. Moriarity is high country desert flying with easy access. Anything around Pheonix or Tucson works, but not really rear water.

Utah is exploding with activity now with the Nephi cross country camps, activity at Parowan and Logan area. But they do have the winter doldrums.

BillT

MInden is a nice soaring location, but a little too remote/small for living there. I can get to truckee in an hour from Auburn and that gives me access to the Sierras. I will check into Moriarty, thanks. Prawn/Nephi are great flying, but not sure how I feel about living in Utah..

How about some place in the EU? Too expensive?

You may try Spain for low cost of living. Southern Germany has good soaring but it is expensive. Western Poland has good soaring and it is relatively inexpensive. Slovakia is another reasonable place and it has good soaring. Flying in Alps from Southern France is another great location.

I am not sure how you would adopt to any of these places. You should read some periodicals on retiring abroad before you spend too much time thinking about it. It all sounds great at first but ...
I am speaking from experience. I have lived in 4 different countries (years in each country) and I traveled through many more. Home will always be home.

Here in the USA we have great soaring, one of the best in the world. Why go anywhere, except maybe for a month or so in winter to SA or Australia.