Thanks, we pretty much canned the idea of moving to Florida.
Anywhere you move will cheaper than your currant location. I would figure out what I want for weather and views,things to do etc then start visiting places that have the things you are interested in.
Thanks. We were planning on looking into Summerville and the surrounding areas. My wife does not want to see snow anymore, and doesn't want to go too far west into the state. We just started talking about it a few months ago and are planning a few trips to look around at different areas.Check out Five Forks, SC.
You can really stretch your retirement dollars, no hurricanes, reasonable taxes, delicious BBQ, mild winters, close to Greenville and major hospitals. It’s a nice area that I’m VERY seriously considering in the very near future.
At least in established places you know what you’re going to get, traffic, p, etc. some places are getting run into the ground, but most places aren’t.Packed and growing very fast. It is heading down the same path Nassau and Western Suffolk counties on L.I. did decades ago. The same writing is on the wall, only at a much higher acceleration rate.
I was telling my wife last week I wouldn't mind living in this area. A lot of outdoors stuff to so.. and well Arkansas is the natural state.Northwest Arkansas. It’s a mix of conservative and liberal values without being in your face about it. People with differences in opinion can still get on.
Just Google it, Northwest Arkansas. (Bentonville, Fayetteville, Rogers, Bella Vista, etc..)
My mother and I want to buy a house together.
Budget is a concern. So our current location SF Bay Area is obviously out. We could have done Vallejo but I lived and worked in that city for a year and I never want to go back. I don’t even like driving through it.
I’m more conservative so I’d like to move to North Carolina because I have a long time friend there who has a good quality of life there. And I would love to get away from the way CA is going with the way crime is handled (as in, it’s not). But my mother is the opposite… and she’s putting down the down payment so ultimately it’s her choice.
I’m recently single and don’t have many friends so I’m not stuck here. Currently I work retail and could easily transfer to any of the 6000 US locations. My next job is probably going to be a work from home web development job so location for that doesn’t really matter.
My mother wants to stay as close to here to be near the rest of our family. But her partner has family in Portland and my aunt has family there too so she thought maybe there. But my research shows it’s the Vallejo of Oregon and things don’t seem much different up there?
Any suggestions? I know it’s a broad question with no right (or wrong) answer but I’m just curious where people here found a good quality of life place to buy a home. Because we’re both sick of renting.
I'm going through this right now only with my wife. My wife wants Florida, the outskirts of Tampa, I'm having second thoughts. My son is there and hates it. I have to find the right house, and I haven't. Crowded, congested, and taxes are rising, three strikes. My wife hates cold weather, I'm not a fan of blistering heat. LOL Good luck OP. Subscribed.
I`d rethink Lewiston Maine.it seems that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_quality_of_life_indices lack of reality!
well according to forbes.com
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2 of your initial choices ,portland an north carolina are in there! so, there you go!
Jay,Most of my family ditched Chicago for Bradenton & Valrico Florida about 25 years ago. I drive down there every year for vacation but have resisted a move. All I hear from them is how traffic keeps getting worse due to retirees moving down there. I probably don't notice this much as I'm on vacation so no hurry and compared to Chicago wouldn't seem like much to me. Don't think my mom/dad/bro/sis going anywhere but pretty sure one of my cousins thinking west coast and my aunt thinking Tennessee. Not sure where my other cousin is looking. I do like Tennessee as it's not so hot as Florida and not so brutal cold like Chicago.
Your last post above says different things than your 1st post on page-1.My mother and I want to buy a house together.
Budget is a concern. So our current location SF Bay Area is obviously out. We could have done Vallejo but I lived and worked in that city for a year and I never want to go back. I don’t even like driving through it.
I’m more conservative so I’d like to move to North Carolina because I have a long time friend there who has a good quality of life there. And I would love to get away from the way CA is going with the way crime is handled (as in, it’s not). But my mother is the opposite… and she’s putting down the down payment so ultimately it’s her choice.
I’m recently single and don’t have many friends so I’m not stuck here. Currently I work retail and could easily transfer to any of the 6000 US locations. My next job is probably going to be a work from home web development job so location for that doesn’t really matter.
My mother wants to stay as close to here to be near the rest of our family. But her partner has family in Portland and my aunt has family there too so she thought maybe there. But my research shows it’s the Vallejo of Oregon and things don’t seem much different up there?
Any suggestions? I know it’s a broad question with no right (or wrong) answer but I’m just curious where people here found a good quality of life place to buy a home. Because we’re both sick of renting.
LOL it's everything but fun. It's all the things many people move to get away from. My goal is to do this right, once, so I'm taking a slow pace, no rush to run out of here and screw up.At least in established places you know what you’re going to get, traffic, p, etc. some places are getting run into the ground, but most places aren’t.
Some of these other places you get massively changing population, excess development, people moving in that ruined the old areas with bad policies, and bringing them into new places. Sounds like fun.
A good portion of that is because in just the last 2-1/2 years we've had well over 8 million new "additions" to our population. These people have to live somewhere.Packed and growing very fast. It is heading down the same path Nassau and Western Suffolk counties on L.I. did decades ago. The same writing is on the wall, only at a much higher acceleration rate.
I always thought it was funny.I can tell you where NOT to go:
- Within 100 Miles of Washington, DC (WAY overpriced housing, terrible traffic, COL, taxes and now woke AF)
- Immediate Baltimore Area (Something in the water I think)
- Long Island, NY (I have colleagues there, like DC, stupid expensive with even higher taxes, were talking ~$11k a year for a modest, 20 year old house, plus even if you don't live in the city, if you are even close, or your office is, they you with NYC taxes)
Yep. The USA's best days are behind it.A good portion of that is because in just the last 2-1/2 years we've had well over 8 million new "additions" to our population. These people have to live somewhere.
And the bulk of them don't like cold weather either. Look for a LOT of change coming to the demographics in the sunbelt, in the upcoming years. And the bulk of it isn't going to be good. I can't post the link because of politics. But you can find it and much more in a 30 second Google search.
This is going to affect everyone. But it will be worse in the places a lot of retirees go. (Low housing costs & property taxes).
"Illegal aliens since 2021 total more than individual populations of 38 states; illegal crossings top 8 million since ***** took office".