Goodbye to San Diego

[EconProf]

After 45 years in San Diego as teacher, real estate investor, and contractor we are leaving. Apparently, so are a lot of other people. The cost of living, and especially the housing cost difference is one of the many reasons, and here are the specifics:
1. Our brand new custom-designed house will cost about 1/3 the price we are getting for our current house and be 10% larger, all on one level.
2. Our HOA will fall from $495/month to about $100. For that HOA we will be a two-block walk from a clubhouse with an exercise room, two pools (one summer, one winter), tennis courts, pickleball courts, etc., etc.
3. Our property taxes will fall from $16,500 per year to about $3000.
4. Monthly utility costs will be vastly lower.

Piggs are invited to guess our destination.

[scaredyclassic]

Idaho. Wait… vegas

[carlsbadworker]

I will try to guess use math. 1/3 price means property tax rate is $3000*3/$16500 = 54.5% of the CA rate.

So that’s the lowest property tax rate in the US. Top 3 lowest property tax rate states are: Hawaii, Alabama and Colorado. Alabama should be cheaper in per square feet and Hawaii does’t need winter pool. So I would guess Colorado.

[carlsbadworker]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Idaho. Wait… vegas[/quote]

Utility bills will be much lower in Vegas? Come on, you know how hot it would be in summer?

[sdrealtor]

Colorado is not 1/3rd the price. I’ll go with Idaho or St George UT though there are parts of AZ or NV that could fit this bill.

Happy Trails! The reported demise of CA is greatly exaggerated

https://on.mktw.net/2Zvso2n

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=carlsbadworker][quote=scaredyclassic]Idaho. Wait… vegas[/quote]

Utility bills will be much lower in Vegas? Come on, you know how hot it would be in summer?[/quote]

I assumed she would embrace the heat.

[Coronita]

Some place outside of the US?

[scaredyclassic]

[quote=Coronita]Some place outside of the US?[/quote]

Cambodia? Mmmm…nicaragua?

https://www.century21global.com/property/krang-thnong-saensokh-phnom-penh-cambodia-C21124601449-USD

My wife gave me a hard no to cambodia. Values have bern going up so fast we are gonna get priced out of phnom penh.

sd hiking trails are a little ridiculously crowded. A move is not a bad idea. My final answer is idaho

[XBoxBoy]

Wyoming?

This thread brings up one of the things that I think people overlook. We whine about how expensive housing in San Diego is, and get lots of talk from politicians about how they are going to create affordable housing. But expensive housing is how we discourage people from moving here (or to stay if they are here). Expensive housing is how we keep San Diego from being even more congested than it is.

[scaredyclassic]

Also, what abput the riff raff.

[an]

AZ

[Hobie]

summer-winter pools, … cancel FL, how about Las Cruces,Prescott

[utcsox]

[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Coronita]Some place outside of the US?[/quote]

Cambodia? Mmmm…nicaragua?

https://www.century21global.com/property/krang-thnong-saensokh-phnom-penh-cambodia-C21124601449-USD

My wife gave me a hard no to cambodia. Values have bern going up so fast we are gonna get priced out of phnom penh.

sd hiking trails are a little ridiculously crowded. A move is not a bad idea. My final answer is idaho[/quote]

Guantanamo Bay?

[sdrealtor]

[quote=XBoxBoy]Wyoming?

This thread brings up one of the things that I think people overlook. We whine about how expensive housing in San Diego is, and get lots of talk from politicians about how they are going to create affordable housing. But expensive housing is how we discourage people from moving here (or to stay if they are here). Expensive housing is how we keep San Diego from being even more congested than it is.[/quote]

Bay Area disagrees

[sdrealtor]

[quote=scaredyclassic]Also, what abput the riff raff.[/quote]

The Villages are calling you and Econ Prof

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9147745/Inside-Utopian-Disneyland-retirees-belies-sinister-underbelly-racism-orgies.html

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