Parents want to buy a house before they retire. Location recommendations?

[Rumpltzer]

Only if they don't have the money...otherwise Torrance is a great place to retire. Not close to a Chinese market though. It's really more of a Japanese area.

I live in Redondo Beach. While the Japanese are in Torrance, it's an older generation that's dying out and/or becoming Murican especially as the Japanese auto companies left. I'd say Torrance is more Korean than Japanese... but to say that it's not Chinese would be false.

I mean, compared to SGV, it's certainly less Chinese. Compared to many of the places that the OP is asking about, it's the fucking Mainland.

 

[Ns1]

True. But there's no "real" Chinese market in Torrance but there is a Marukai and Mitsuwa (unless things have changed).

Did not know Koreans started moving into the area.

 

[zinfamous]

uh, so you guys recommending NC, did you ignore the "hate heat, humidity, and cold" parts? NC is brutally hot and humid for at least 3 months per year, and can get really cold and iced-in from January-February. Only the mountains are mild through the summers, but his parents aren't finding any Chinese communities out there, nor any kind of big city.

CA seems like the only option, unless they want to assimilate a bit...which is something that old people don't do very well.