More land, lowering costs, where would you move here in the West?

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Thanks everyone for the suggestions. We want to stick to the West, west of Denver, so Texas is out and I’ve lived there before and no real desire to head back.

Brian, yep I agree on the middle of nowhere, not where we want to head. Job availability and a broad spectrum of industries doesn’t hurt.

We don’t want to leave SD necessarily, or even CA. Love SD and also the Bay Area which we almost moved to. However there have been some family circumstances in both of our families that has forced us to consider going somewhere with a lower cost base and more land.

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Hatfield, if you’re considering Marble Falls/ Austin for yourself, its not uncommon for Austin to be blazing hot in August and September, with many days in the 100s. Its not exactly considered freaky weather wise. Austin can be quite humid as well, although not nearly as humid as Houston or as often. Also unless you are retired, Marble Falls is not where you want to live because you’d be commuting 2hrs each way to Austin.

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Hatfield, if you’re considering Marble Falls/ Austin for yourself, its not uncommon for Austin to be blazing hot in August and September, with many days in the 100s. Its not exactly considered freaky weather wise. Austin can be quite humid as well, although not nearly as humid as Houston or as often. Also unless you are retired, Marble Falls is not where you want to live because you’d be commuting 2hrs each way to Austin.

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Hatfield, if you’re considering Marble Falls/ Austin for yourself, its not uncommon for Austin to be blazing hot in August and September, with many days in the 100s. Its not exactly considered freaky weather wise. Austin can be quite humid as well, although not nearly as humid as Houston or as often. Also unless you are retired, Marble Falls is not where you want to live because you’d be commuting 2hrs each way to Austin.

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Hatfield, if you’re considering Marble Falls/ Austin for yourself, its not uncommon for Austin to be blazing hot in August and September, with many days in the 100s. Its not exactly considered freaky weather wise. Austin can be quite humid as well, although not nearly as humid as Houston or as often. Also unless you are retired, Marble Falls is not where you want to live because you’d be commuting 2hrs each way to Austin.

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Hatfield, if you’re considering Marble Falls/ Austin for yourself, its not uncommon for Austin to be blazing hot in August and September, with many days in the 100s. Its not exactly considered freaky weather wise. Austin can be quite humid as well, although not nearly as humid as Houston or as often. Also unless you are retired, Marble Falls is not where you want to live because you’d be commuting 2hrs each way to Austin.

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NeetaT, I don’t know where 5k came from, but income taxes alone can save you 10s of thousands. Plus where are you going to buy a nice chunk of land in central SD without dropping several million? I’m very relaxed thank you.

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NeetaT, I don’t know where 5k came from, but income taxes alone can save you 10s of thousands. Plus where are you going to buy a nice chunk of land in central SD without dropping several million? I’m very relaxed thank you.

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NeetaT, I don’t know where 5k came from, but income taxes alone can save you 10s of thousands. Plus where are you going to buy a nice chunk of land in central SD without dropping several million? I’m very relaxed thank you.

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NeetaT, I don’t know where 5k came from, but income taxes alone can save you 10s of thousands. Plus where are you going to buy a nice chunk of land in central SD without dropping several million? I’m very relaxed thank you.

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NeetaT, I don’t know where 5k came from, but income taxes alone can save you 10s of thousands. Plus where are you going to buy a nice chunk of land in central SD without dropping several million? I’m very relaxed thank you.

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I lived in Bellingham, WA for 3 years in the early 90’s… I loved it. But it does rain a lot. During the summer you can choose between going swimming from a beach into the puget sound, or from a beach into a lake (Whatcom or Padden in the b’ham area.) Lots of boating… University in town. Vancouver BC was close for night life, Seattle was also semi close – about 90 minutes away. My best friend still lives there so I still get back there a lot. Surprisingly, there’s a decent number of tech/programming type jobs – a lot more than when I lived there and there was only 1 engineering company in the whole city.

I have friends who live in/around Portland. It’s definitely hip/urban. You can get a LOT of house for small $$.

I’d give big thumbs up to the pacific northwest.

I spent a lot of time in Denver/Fort Collins (back and forth between them) 2 years ago… My brother was going through chemo, then surgeries, then finally hospice. It was Fall/Winter. The mountains are beautiful but the weather is entirely too unpredictable… 80 degrees in the moring – snow storm that night – literally.

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I lived in Bellingham, WA for 3 years in the early 90’s… I loved it. But it does rain a lot. During the summer you can choose between going swimming from a beach into the puget sound, or from a beach into a lake (Whatcom or Padden in the b’ham area.) Lots of boating… University in town. Vancouver BC was close for night life, Seattle was also semi close – about 90 minutes away. My best friend still lives there so I still get back there a lot. Surprisingly, there’s a decent number of tech/programming type jobs – a lot more than when I lived there and there was only 1 engineering company in the whole city.

I have friends who live in/around Portland. It’s definitely hip/urban. You can get a LOT of house for small $$.

I’d give big thumbs up to the pacific northwest.

I spent a lot of time in Denver/Fort Collins (back and forth between them) 2 years ago… My brother was going through chemo, then surgeries, then finally hospice. It was Fall/Winter. The mountains are beautiful but the weather is entirely too unpredictable… 80 degrees in the moring – snow storm that night – literally.

[UCGal]

I lived in Bellingham, WA for 3 years in the early 90’s… I loved it. But it does rain a lot. During the summer you can choose between going swimming from a beach into the puget sound, or from a beach into a lake (Whatcom or Padden in the b’ham area.) Lots of boating… University in town. Vancouver BC was close for night life, Seattle was also semi close – about 90 minutes away. My best friend still lives there so I still get back there a lot. Surprisingly, there’s a decent number of tech/programming type jobs – a lot more than when I lived there and there was only 1 engineering company in the whole city.

I have friends who live in/around Portland. It’s definitely hip/urban. You can get a LOT of house for small $$.

I’d give big thumbs up to the pacific northwest.

I spent a lot of time in Denver/Fort Collins (back and forth between them) 2 years ago… My brother was going through chemo, then surgeries, then finally hospice. It was Fall/Winter. The mountains are beautiful but the weather is entirely too unpredictable… 80 degrees in the moring – snow storm that night – literally.

[UCGal]

I lived in Bellingham, WA for 3 years in the early 90’s… I loved it. But it does rain a lot. During the summer you can choose between going swimming from a beach into the puget sound, or from a beach into a lake (Whatcom or Padden in the b’ham area.) Lots of boating… University in town. Vancouver BC was close for night life, Seattle was also semi close – about 90 minutes away. My best friend still lives there so I still get back there a lot. Surprisingly, there’s a decent number of tech/programming type jobs – a lot more than when I lived there and there was only 1 engineering company in the whole city.

I have friends who live in/around Portland. It’s definitely hip/urban. You can get a LOT of house for small $$.

I’d give big thumbs up to the pacific northwest.

I spent a lot of time in Denver/Fort Collins (back and forth between them) 2 years ago… My brother was going through chemo, then surgeries, then finally hospice. It was Fall/Winter. The mountains are beautiful but the weather is entirely too unpredictable… 80 degrees in the moring – snow storm that night – literally.

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