Chris,
I agree with Neil, Prescott, AZ is a great place. I would move there myself except the wife has to much relation living around here (Santa Rosa, CA area) and once she let be put the extension on my shop the anchor was dropped! The Northern Cal area is way to expensive to move into, luckily I did it 26 years ago when it was not so trendy, but I do live within 10 miles of probably 30 world class wineries and Sonoma county has over 30 breweries! The Demos, who rule California, are quickly working on making us "Detroit West" but I will keep my head down, beer cold and see what happens.
Rex