It's one of the things I've been mulling over, where do I want to retire? Where I currently live, I can get to a grocery store & pharmacy by bicycle buy not much else. Then there's the whole hurricane evacuation thing. I don't have kids, am currently single, so it's up to me to get my hide out of Dodge. Which leads me to thinking that maybe I want to get myself transferred one more time somewhere else - and somewhere that I won't have to pack up and evacuate at a moment's or day's notice.

So if I did move, I'd like to live somewhere that things are either within walking / biking distance or had decent public transit. I'd also like to think I'd have the good sense to take myself out of the driving pool when I'm "of a certain age." Whatever that is. Unfortunately our cities are designed around automobiles as modes of transit, that if you don't have one, you're in a world of hurt. Thanks to the powerful lobbying efforts of AARP, it's hard to take away driver's licenses from the elderly. I've seen my own Mother do some scary things, and now she only drives in areas she's familiar with, but that doesn't stop the unfamiliar from popping out in front of her. But where she lives, there's no public transit, and nothing within walking distance except more houses, "welcome to suburbia".