opinions wanted: chesapeake/eastern shore region for new place to call home

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bruce horning

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mid 50s now and looking for a place to not shovel snow! was hoping to find a friendly medium sized town that is close to golf courses and great water fowling opportunities. any opinions are appreciated! going to start exploring this year.

bruce horning
 
If I had to pick myself I would start looking in the Easton, MD area and go south from there. Don't know about golf courses, that wouldn't rank real high on my list of must haves. Good luck in your search for a new home.

Steve
 
I have been to Easton many times... and is a nice place, as long as you plan to stay on the Eastern Shore and not leave it often. The summer traffic to the beaches and the commuter traffic is bad, real bad. The Bay Bridge is a serious bottleneck, often. IDK about cost of living, I suspect MD is not cheap. I live in Northern VA, also not cheap, but I won't likely retire here! Don't know where I will go yet....
 
If your goal is not to shovel snow, I think you need to look a little further south. Might not be much compared to upstate NY, but you'll still need a shovel.
 
Think Gulf Coast: lots of good food, excellent year-round fishing, ducks, year-round golf and excellent cost of living.
But the summer heat can be very hard to deal with and you have to have hurricane plan.....
 
sounds like cape cod in the summertime! we have a place on a finger lake in new york so we would spend summers there and winters elsewhere.

thanks dave for the heads up!
 
80's? Heck that spring weather down here! We will hit 90 this weekend. Highs in June, July & August are normally 90-95.
I hate summer down here, but the rest of the year makes it tolerable.
 
If you don't like 80's you better look further north ... summers here are typically in the 90's with very high humidity and poor air quality. As for hunting opportunities ... you either need a big check book or you need to be OK with dealing with very crowded public areas ... Cost of living is fairly high compared to other parts of the country, considering what you get for your $$$. Add to that, MD is one of the highest taxed states in the country ... they tax everything ... even the rain ... google "Rain Tax". As mentioned, traffic is horrible 6 months out of the year.

Personally, I can't wait to leave and go back to the desert SW, which would be my recommendation for a retirement location ... great hunting (all types), fishing and you have the mountains for winter sports.
 
The air guality where I live now is Very Good & heat of summer without high humidity. 60 1/2 years I lived further south, in bad air quality, and humidity in summer that I called "weather you can wear" cuz it would soak to the skin. Lots of people, traffic, noise and high blood pressure. If you don't want to shovel snow I recommend staying where you are, and get a condo or apartment where they do the job for you. I do not shovel snow, or cut grass as per my Cardiologist, but I will not give up dragging deer.....Slowly. Some things are worth risking your life for.

After the Winter we had here I thought I would never seen green leaves again. This mornings walk in the fresh air, blue sky, bright sunshine and quiet, proved me wrong. Now I'm goin' fly fishin'.
 
Hi Bruce. As one who grew up on the shore, Kent Island to be specific, I can tell you that Md is expensive and is run by a bunch of socialist wanna-bees as far as legislation goes. Talbot County, where Easton is has a cap on property taxes, but the other shore counties don't have a cap. My parents live just outside of Easton, so I am very familiar with it. Many summer temperatures zip past the 80's by breakfast time and 90's are very common.

Traffic in the summer, on Rt 50 is a serious quality of life detractor. If you live there, it figures into every decision you make about where and when you go anywhere.

Waterfowling oppurtunities may be greatly different than what you are used to as the laws on riparian rights and where you can and cannot hunt are pretty tight.

As much as I loved my Eastern Shore life in my younger days, I would not return there to live in my 50's.

PM me if you have any other questions...

John Bourbon
 
Did I mention low property taxes? With homestead exemption, I pay about $650/year on a property with an assessed value of over $150,000.00. And $150,000 will still buy you a very nice 3/2 home in our area.
We do take a hit on sales tax, 9% on everything.
 
If you want to duck hunt the Virginia side of the Eastern Shore. I grew up on the South end of the Bay and have hunted most of it. Be prepared..you'll need a solid boat, a big rig and e prepared to do a lot of work. The reward is you can still have an epic duck hunt.
 
right on,carl! can't take the heat! i would rather be below freezing than in the 80,s.

thanks,carl
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Bruce, VA and MD eastern shores are extremely hot and humid in the summer. My cousin in Suffolk (not the eastern shore) wants to move to harrisonburg near the mountains to get away from the humidity. She won't escape it there either.

I'm looking for a place to move as well. Let me know what you come up with. I don't care about golf courses.
 
Bruce, Head for Delaware or Virginia. It's cheaper, less taxes, less ridiculous laws (rain tax, ban on AR-15's but not on AR-10's). The hunting is tough if u dont have private property. The bird numbers have been bad for a few years and the state is right on the "weather line" so if you dont get enough freeze up north of us, the birds have a hard time making it down during the season. Just my .02

dc
 
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