Don't listen to this guy! He probably got rabies from all the sick wild animals in NC. Stay away for your own good!!!!
Anywhere North of the upper prtion of Texas sucks. Way too many useless months per year. And by useless I mean no boatng and no bikini/miniskirt weather. California is great. Too crowded but very beautiful but definately not worth paynig double to quadruple to live in so calis out. Southern Florida is way high up on my list. Hawaii is definately worth the extra money to live there. But I think Austin,Texas has the lowest cost of living/best weather/hot chicks/ great city living combination I can think of.
Tennessee is a nice place to retire at and lay back near a lake, plus curvy roads near TN/NC border with the famous 318 curves in 11 miles road. That is what I want to do but if i had to choose I would choose Orlando FL or Miami FL to live at. Other choices would be Charlotte NC, San Diego CA, or Knoxville TN. San Diego is sooo beautiful and soooooooooooo many fine women that just want to PARTY and ummm other stuff too!!! Just can't wait till I go to California again this year in July 2005. I have been about everywhere including 8 other countries and hopefully in the next five years tour Europe for a month just for the hell of it. I travel to Columbia and Charleston South Carolina to see a couple of friends just for the hell of it too. I guess I get bored staying at the house.
Knoxville itself, sucks. Been there, done that. Have the HS diploma and PhD to prove it. Now, Sevier county on the other hand...