Thinking of moving to Arkansas

[alikair]

I am a few years away from retirement and was wondering if any newcomers could give me some advice on what city to move to that have friendly folks and good fishing.

I primarily like to fish rivers for steelhead but would also enjoy fly fishing for trout or even lake fishing.

I don't have any family to worry about or need any additional income... I hope.

 Currently I live in Oregon and have fished many fine rivers here. I just think it's time for another change.

The reason I am looking into Arkansas is Mountain View was voted best river town and Bella Vista was voted best town. So I figure NW part of the state would put me near both

A little about me, I was raised in Hawaii and consider myself caucasian even though I'm mostly spanish. (just incase that kinda thing is helpful)

PS I know almost absolutely nothing about Arkansas or the Ozarks. but I do like ZZ Top. : )

 

[jdmidwest]

Mountain Home was rated among one of the best places to retire for a sportsman a few years back by one of the outdoor magazines.  Lots of places to hunt or fish public land.  Cost of living and taxes pretty reasonable.  Seasons right temp wise. You get all of them in mild variences.

[alikair]

Thanks for the Quick response JD. Is this Mountain View a nice place to live and near most of the good fishing areas?

[tjm]

Mountain Home and Mountain View are different places about 50 miles apart. If I was looking for a new home I might look around Harrison Ar., rather than either of those towns. Harrison may not even be on the list of desirable places, I don't know, but the  question comes to who voted a town best and what the criteria is, for example I live within five miles of Bella Vista and would never put it above the 30% mark on places I'd want to live. Any town is less desirable to me than any rural area near a town.

A thought about taxes, in this area (extreme SW MO & NW AR) taxes are considerably higher in AR. than in MO,  this relates to both property taxes and sales taxes. About fishing, there is lots of it in the Ozarks.

What part of Oregon? I once lived in Harney County?

[alikair]

6 hours ago, tjm said:

Mountain Home and Mountain View are different places about 50 miles apart. If I was looking for a new home I might look around Harrison Ar., rather than either of those towns. Harrison may not even be on the list of desirable places, I don't know, but the  question comes to who voted a town best and what the criteria is, for example I live within five miles of Bella Vista and would never put it above the 30% mark on places I'd want to live. Any town is less desirable to me than any rural area near a town.

A thought about taxes, in this area (extreme SW MO & NW AR) taxes are considerably higher in AR. than in MO,  this relates to both property taxes and sales taxes. About fishing, there is lots of it in the Ozarks.

What part of Oregon? I once lived in Harney County?

thanks for pointing out my mistake on home vs view. I now need to look back and see what town i read about a few days ago.

I currently live south of Portland OR. in a city called West Linn. I mainly fish the oh to popular river call Clackamas. I have also fished every saturday and sunday for about 10 hrs each day without catching a fish since the end of April. Seems like the only 3 spots that catch fish on this river have people shoulder to shoulder fishing. 

I think fishing for steelhead "the fish of a thousand casts" I should have landed a few since then.

[Quillback]

Used to live outside of Seattle and fished for steelhead quite a bit.  Loved it, and I miss the good old days.  Fishery went downhill about the end of the 90's.

I live in Bella Vista and am happy with it.  A lot depends on what you are looking for in retirement, NW Arkansas area where Bella Vista is located is a busy urban area and it is growing, may not be for you unless that is what you are looking for.  

As far as Mountain Home area, it is a great place to live for a fisherman.  Bull Shoals for lake fishing and outstanding trout fishing in the White river below the dam.  

If you have any question about Bella Vista, feel free to shoot me a PM.

[DeweyS]

Where did you end up moving to? And which transport company was hired? I'm planning to transfer my business to Arkansas, but I don't know where to start.

[Terrierman]

Just FYI it's going to be 105 Tuesday.

[Kilotron]

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[tjm]

On 7/16/2022 at 5:52 PM, Terrierman said:

Just FYI it's going to be 105 Tuesday.

Was 111F in shade on my porch that day and near that yesterday. The good news is we haven't had any rain in about 6-8 weeks.