I probably won’t make that move. The elevation is like 7000 feet and I remember how sick I was for about two weeks when we moved to Wyoming. Not to mention I’m beginning to hate cold weather.
I do miss the mountains and the beauty of that type of country but it’s also quite isolated being about an hour from Taos which isn’t all that big itself. It takes me an hour to get to the big city here, but at least there are my favorite stores.
So, it does sound good having free rent and all, but the drawbacks may outweigh all of that.
I love the mountains. But the "cold" part would get me. I've got accident related issues and the cold makes it where I can't get up and work some days here. It would not be good to have more of those days.
Free rent is good though. That's what's allowed us to save up some down payment for a place. We're sorta "caretaking" this place for my mother and pay only the utilities and keep up the house. The house was vacant for 3 years after Grama died and was starting to show neglect so we've taken care of that for mom. We will still have to do some of that when we find our place but we can also do that from a home in one of these 2 counties.