Looking at the absolutes

 

Temperate year round climate--I pulled up a map of the US and drew a line across the country and divided it neatly in two:

Town of 40,000-100,000 people– California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, George, South Carolina and Florida.  I don’t want to offend anyone, but somehow I couldn’t see my Blue State self fitting into the Red State South (with the possible exceptions of South Carolina, and Georgia). I briefly considered Fairhope, AL but it’s population is only 17,000 so it falls outside my range.
I zeroed in on Arizona, New Mexico, Texas along with Georgia and South Carolina.  Then I pulled up www.city-data.com and went to work. I finally zeroed in on:

Town	Population	COLA*	Med. Home	Hi/Lo Temp
Prescott, AZ,	42,749	101.1	325,573	81.0/29.3
Tucson, AZ	548,555	89.0	181,300	86.6/51.3
Rio Rancho, NM	82,574	87	186,000	73.9/33.8
Las Cruses, NM	93,570	88.7	156,200	95.0/28.5
San Antonio, TX	1.373688	80.6	114,500	49.3/85.0
Athens, GA	85,116	90.1	172,189	90.2/32.9
Greenville, SC	61,782	86.8	164,861	78.2/40.1

 The moral of the story??  Nothing is perfect!


So what's next???


*COLA:  Cost of Living – average in the US is 100; where we live in California it is 126.5