Good luck to ya. I think being that you have no family,etc entrenched down here, I think it’s positive that you can move around a bit…
I moved a bit around from L.A., tp N.Y to S.D. to Bay Area and back to S.D., only to wan to move back to the Bay Area eventually. I like to see the seasons change and be closer to the slopes during the winter.
Long, long term, Vancouver would be nice too :)[/quote]
I agree with this – before you have kids, you have freedom to move around, but post kids, it’s nice to have family around. Pre kids I left San Diego for B’ham WA, then Philly, then Atlanta, back to Philly,… had a kid, and moved “home” to where my parents and sister were. To handle the in-law issue we built a granny flat and moved them out here too.
Given my druthers – I agree that Vancouver is awesome. I used to go there a lot when I lived in Bellingham. I love that part of the world – even if they say “eh” too much and think Mazda is pronounced Maaahzda. (flat a like in cat.)[/quote]
Crap.. I realized I’m keyboard challenged today….Now that you quoted me, I can’t be a revisionist and hide my errors 🙂
But jstoesz,
The other thing to think about is I think you need to find a place where you and other would love to live irrespective of affordability. Not narking on TX, but I couldn’t imagine myself living there, no matter how affordable housing would be to buy. I guess what I’m trying to say is. you don’t need to buy to enjoy where you live.
When I was up in the Bay Area, cost of living was much much more than in other parts of CA. But in general, I liked being up there, and rarely stayed home anyway. So I didn’t mind living in a hole in the wall place. The other thing is while I could say there are just as many wealthy people up there as probably down here, up there it’s not so much as outwardly per one’s image. The one big drawback about SoCal is it’s very well image conscience. You can’t get away from that. It’s probably not so much as so elsewhere, and not like that up in the Bay Area. L.A. is horrible in that regards, and it’s not necessarily that people are really wealthy there, people just like to keep up appearances…. Bay Area has their fare share of dot.com wealthy people, but quite often they just look like normal people on the street (some are slobby looking frankly)…But that’s kinda good in a certain way.
Seattle is a nice area too IF you don’t mind the rain.
