1073 sats \ 17 replies \ @Undisciplined 22 Dec 2023 \ on: If you could only move ONE more time, where would you go? earth
My wife and I are basically trying to answer this question right now. I can mostly do my job remotely, so the world is our oyster. We've more or less narrowed it down to lake and mountain towns in the American Midwest or South.
Why there?
- Low cost of living
- Low taxes
- Relatively free economies
- Improving (from our perspective obviously) social and cultural attitudes
- Limited exposure to deranged leftists
- Natural beauty
- Allowed to hobby farm in residential neighborhoods
- Lots of stuff for kids to do
- Good affordable private schools
- Easy to have enough yard for a dog
- Driving distance to the beach
- Inconvenient for unwanted family to visit
Inconvenient for unwanted family to visit
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It's the only reason I'm allowing Arkansas to be in consideration.
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I loved driving through Arkansas. It is beautiful. My wife wanted to buy a house there so we could be close to her family in Texas but not too close.
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Was that in northern Arkansas? That's the area we're looking into now.
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No, we drove from Memphis straight through Arkansas into north east Texas. So that would have been more central and southern part of Arkansas. Stopped in Benton for a bite to eat.
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I was about to insult your sense of geography, but then I realized Arkansas has both a Benton and a Bentonville.
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This confused me as well at first. When we stopped in Benton I was telling my wife "this is where Walmart is headquartered and where the first store was". Then I had to correct myself 5 minutes later when I realized it was actually bentonville. On the bright side, I don't think she was paying attention to my rambling anyways.
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Tennessee for you! Beach is a long drive, but long weekendable.
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It's under consideration. We took an excursion to Clarksville, but it didn't quite grab us. If NE Tennessee housing comes down in price a bit, we'll look around there a bit more intensively.
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The market is starting to soften a bit. Check out the Upper Cumberland region later in 2024.
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Will do. Thanks
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If you want to move to the communist republic of Canada my neighbour is selling her house. We have the lake and mountain town (ski resort- close enough). We have the following on your list:
Natural beauty
Lots of stuff for kids to do
Good private schools (depend what you consider affordable)
You can get a house with a decent yard for under 1M (what a steal)
Driving distance to the beach
Very inconvenient- need a passport, flight and a 2 hours drive.
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Pass. If we wanted to live in the frozen north we would move back to where we came from.
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Ok but you are missing out. Next year we get FREEEEEEEEEE dental care.
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I think we already have free dental, in the sense that my employer is required by law to pay for it out of what would otherwise be my paycheck.
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Yes, most people have dental coverage through their employment benefit plan here as well but they are adding a national dental care program for those not covered. Under a certain income, not sure exactly what it is.
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Nice last bullet point xD those are the perks we dont talk about enough
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