The Climate in LaFayette is pleasant and suits us just fine.  We’ve tried the cold county (Springfield, Mass) and the hot (Houston, Texas), we’ve tried island living (Bahamas) where the sun shines all the time and Europe (Germany) where the sun never shines, but here you get the four season with some cold and some hot, some sun and some clouds.  It makes us appreciate the difference but doesn’t rub our nose in it.  In addition to a couple of clinics for the small stuff, we have a major medical facility 20 miles away, East Alabama Medical Center , which has been named in the top 100 hospitals in the U.S for two years.  It has a “55 Plus” club which offers special parking, seminars, health screening, etc. for us old people.

    If you manage to become very old, LaFayette is the place to be.  We have many older people who live here.  Most of them live at home, hire someone to stay with them in their house and drive them to medical appointments and their social events around town.  If you prefer, we have independent living apartments, assisted living and nursing homes.  Our quaint, antique town and its people are a special attraction within itself supplemented by local theater in the Valley, Callaway Gardens 45 minutes away and two junior colleges nearby.

   Auburn a major university 20 miles away, provides world class sports, classes for adult learning plus all kinds of other activities.  We also have a 175 acre County Lake that you just might be the only one fishing at any given time.  Hunting is big time here.  You can go to one of those hunting lodges here; however, you will probably go one of your neighbors to his/her country place outside of town.  LaFayette wants and will welcome people who are interesting and interested.