Cheapest nice rural place to live in the US ?

[NT!]

bloom - there is significant variation between different parts of the appalachians. north carolina (my home state, go heels!) is really wonderful and has some cool towns/cities. however it is getting developed pretty rapidly so the desirable parts will not be as cheap as they once were. you could still get some good land out in western NC near asheville. it's got fairly mild winters but it's not california by any stretch.

rural georgia is similar in climate - parts are a little warmer but not much - i am less familiar with its towns and cities but it is definitely less expensive.

[dostofan]

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I really think areas of colorado are developing nicely, and you can still get some super cheap places.

Just pick any small area north of denver on I-25.

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Hmm.. I find Denver to be a total [censored]-hole, but I like the rest of Colorado. Seems to me there's too much winter there. I like the skiing and I love the mountains in the summer time.

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By your post, I'm guessing you have spent a total of 10 days in Colorado. Our winters are about as mild as they come, with over 300 days of sunshine/year and many days over 50 degrees. The winter is nicer than the midwest and the eastern seaboard by far. And Denver is far from a [censored]-hole, it's the cleanest "big" city I've ever been to, by quite a bit.

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Ive lived in CO, VT, MD, FL, MA, MT, OR, and now NY. Out of all of those Denver, CO was/is my favorite. "Big" city life without too much stress and awesome mounatins close by. And, yes, the winters there are over-hyped. You do get snow, but you get a lot of mild days too. And, it's way sunnier than New England/mid-Atlantic.

If OP wants rural and warm and liberal and hiking and nature, you're going to have to do some research. Much of the South gets nixed. Maybe there's a liberal patch it some NC mountains, I don't know. Of course, you have to deal with the bugs in a lot of parts of the East Coast and the humidity in the summer (another reason to like the dry/mostly bug free West). Liberal and nature to me is Vermont, Colorado, parts of Oregon and Maine- all colder places.

[JaredL]

One state to the north should do.

[tboss888]

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I'm from the mountains of northern Georgia. Very beautiful, very temperate, and very cheap. My mom just bought TWO condos in Dalton (the "big city"!) for a total price of 180k, for some perspective. She also owns a really nice, new, big house on 15 acres of beautiful countryside that probably has a total property value of 350 - 400k. Which is pennies compared to CA.

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Aren't you in the carpet capital of the south?

[cbloom]

I don't need liberal neighbors as long as I'm not ostracised for it. I've been through the south and there were parts of like Missisippi-George-South Carolina where I felt like I would get boycotted if I didn't go to church, join the NRA and vote red. Especially in the small/country towns I'm thinking of, if folks don't like you it can be difficult.

[southerndog]

Georgia is a good recommendation. I lived in Clemson, SC for 7 years and absolutely loved it. Small college town where real estate is quite cheap. Still plenty to do though. Golf, tennis, etc..

[Thremp]

cbloom,

And they don't like homosexualz either.

[siccjay]

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The stories I've heard of Louisville make it sound like there's a good deal of kill-whitey sentiment there. True or untrue?

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The black police chief is my friend. I am a cracker.

[siccjay]

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the weather is pretty good (gets below 30 about 3 or 4 times a year)


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haha Are you serious? You sure you live here? It was probably below 30 10+ times last month.

[Matt24]

south central indiana, 60 miles south of indy/60 miles north of louisville. very very cheap. very nice here, my town just got its 2nd stoplight 2 weeks ago!