Well, your decison to buy a (retirement or “forever?”) home in Waco is in the eye of the beholder. It doesn’t matter what the “perception” (my boots-on-the-ground perception of years ago passing thru . . . or anyone else’s, for that matter) is out there of Waco, TX. It has the wide open spaces that most of San Diego County doesn’t, especially for the price you can buy a home there for with “good bones.” And the biggest a$$ sky the Piggs have ever seen!
Since you posted the above comment, I watched its recruitment videos and was very impressed (loved the architecture). I tried mightily to get my last kid to apply for (public) colleges in “flyover America” (due to a much lower student/teacher ratio and much more individual attention by instructors/counselors) where they had in-state “status” in three states. But alas, they refused and wanted to attend a CSU. That’s fine. Very deep-pocketed donors are ALSO alive and well at CSUs here in Cali and literally make some of the campuses what they are today.
I realize Baylor is private but what an experience! Did your kids graduate from there, desmond?