If you have young kids consider private schools. They start as low as 3500 a year per child for a parochial school. They tend to be selective and use national standardized tests.
This option could give you some time to make sure you get in the right area.
Another thread that is only a couple years old, but shows how much the market has changed. I remember thinking that taking your time in 2011 was a good thing. You can’t find a single family home for under $400K in any of the area’s mentioned in this thread. Anything in the low 400’s is junk.
