Old Rocks
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For the record...
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Missouri ranks high on the list of best states in which to retire.
Bankrate.com tackled the where should I retire question from a unique angle. Instead of looking at the states with the best beach access and golf courses, it weighed its findings on other more practical issues: cost of living, crime rates, tax rates, access to medical care, and average annual temperatures.
Taking all those factors into consideration, Missouri comes in as the eleventh-best retirement state, ahead of Florida and Arizona. Illinois is listed as number 20.
Missouri Ranks High on ?Best States for Retirement? List « CBS St. Louis
Well, I highly reccomend you all retire to Missouri and Florida. And come out occasionly to visit us in Oregon, just don't stay.
You don't have to worry about me on that score.
Y'alls woods ain't right.
Wrong birds, wrong plants, wrong trees.![]()
Well, drove down the Ozarks, have to admit that you have a whole lot more differant kinds of trees than we do. All kind of little, though. Kind of skimpy on animals, too. Here in Oregon we have deer, elk, antelope, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, moose, and buffalo. Abundant wild turkey on both sides of the state, as well as pheasants, several kinds of grouse, chukars, and buku kinds of ducks and geese.
Don't have anything like your lightning bugs. Westside can match you on poison oak. The only kind of poisones snakes we have a side winder rattlesnakes. You definately have us beat on that score. Fewer mosquitoes because the eastside has so much high desert.
But I like Missouri, just not as well as Oregon.