Oops! Okay, scratch tiamat credit for seven moves and realign into the KP column -- so.
Now, I'm off to my Remedial Thread-reading class...
Coming from California, I don't think my relocation problems would have much to do with money. Housing value here outstrips its counterparts around the country by a factor of nearly four-to-one. I can sell here and buy twice the size of both house and land in Overland Park, Kansas for HALF of, and get it thirty years newer than, what I now own. I can sell here and buy the same sized house on the same sized lot in Marietta, Georgia for ONE-FOURTH of, and get it forty years newer than, what I now own.
BTW, any not currently among the ranks of the homeowners, live frugally and save your nickels and dimes; there will be a glut of foreclosures in California starting in about 2012. Be ready to buy.
Precisely why I'm moving east- as a first-time home shopper, I simply can't afford it here. I mean, it's crazy to find yourself seriously considering a $310,000 first house, and that's a fixer-upper! And since I came from north Georgia last year, the shock was so much greater...
Nope, heading to NC.