It must be cheap, beautiful and have clean air. For my social life, I need a foreign community. I envision myself learning the local language, but speaking Chinese all the time can be tiresome. In China, Guilin and Yangshuo come pretty close to my vision of a perfect place. The area is beautiful and the weather sub-tropical.
Winters are short and mild.
It never freezes. And there are two golf courses. Guilin and Yangshuo are merely a 90-minute bus trip apart on either end of the famous Li River cruise. This is where those lovely karst, or limestone mountains rise out of land flat enough for a retiree to bicycle on. It is one of China's main tourist attractions, a place that old friends would include on a dream tour of China.