North Carolina sounds nice. I want a place where I can walk a lot to places and get good exercise on weekends. I plan to buy in 2-3 years. Hopefully by then I will have found a stable full time job and have more cash stowed away for a down payment and move besides a cushion of reserves in the bank.
Home price under 500k is the goal. Who wants to be pay mortgage off forever? That sucks.
Nice climate.
Good economy lot of jobs for database technology.
Good night life and cultural activities: festivals, beer, wine, food, art, etc.
I am thinking of Colorado even though it gets cold- it has best balance of outdoor and indoor fun and mountains to hike and camp.
Hopefully I can travel a lot in next couple years to many new states for Oracle projects.
I was able to work on projects in southern Idaho (way too cold!!!), Mississippi (sucks!), Delaware and Texas. Dallas was ok but crappy weather. Houston sucks very humid and a lot of fat people.
