The Story

So two years ago, MRS Bunkermeister and I realized it was getting close to retirement time.  We also realized we would not have much money in retirement.  We spent over a year looking for places that were less expensive than Southern California.  That ruled out Tokyo, Manhattan, and Hawaii.

We did Internet searches for weather, cost of living, home prices and many other things.  I have the giant wargame and toy soldier collection, so I wanted a large room or separate building for the troops.  For the last 40 years I have been a firearms instructor so I do have a few guns and would like to be able to keep them.

We visited Prescott, Arizona.  Nice place, they even still have cowboys there.  Still, they have had a bit of a housing boom and home prices were a bit high.  We then visited Missoula, Montana.  A great place and not too much snow.  It's in a bowl formed by mountains and the snow gets dropped on the outside.  However, the government built some big laboratories and created a housing boom, too expensive.