Real physical money is priceless.
Posted on 01/16/2022 10:19:52 AM PST by blam
Avoid moving between the months of May and August, if you can. Most especially, do not move between last weekend in June, and the 4th of July holiday if you plan to retain your sanity and your hair. Companies get overbooked, and the renter that is bringing in the equipment you'll be picking up is going to extend their rental.
If you are moving, make an initial plan AT LEAST six months in advance. If you are renting a truck / trailer / container, make your reservation AT LEAST four months in advance. Reservations can be changed, but if you don't make a reservation, the schedule will fill up and you won't have equipment when you need it.
DISCLAIMER: I have been in the do-it-yourself moving and storage business for 10 years.
That’s why we chose AZ...Being a CA native, I found AZ weather to be very similar to S. CA...We’re not in the low desert of Phoenix, but high country where it’s significantly cooler in summer. And by the looks of what is happening, it looks like a lot of people are thinking the exact same thing.
We had plans to go to the northwest, but as the years rolled by before bailing out, we decided against the cold/snow of the northwest. For us it turns out it was a *great* decision.
I use to gauge it to never moving further than a days drive from family which worked for awhile. Later it didn’t matter...but now I’m just 45 minutes from them...on purpose.
The best investment in chaos is family and friends. Money in the bank is worthless.
Same here.
Is an emergency ever an advantage? If not, start packing.
Move when you can.
If you wait for moving when you must, lots of others must move too, and it creates a disaster as far as finding a place, finances, logistics of getting household goods moved, finding a new job, doctor, etc.
Yup. Don’t wait for the enemy to design your strategy. All they offer you is defeat or surrender.
Moving is hard enough without having to deal with limited options.
The only truly good time to move is the one you see in hindsight and you can’t go there.
Real physical money is priceless.
I moved farther away from the shitehole of Denver last year. So far, so good.
Seneca: “Increases are of sluggish growth but the way to ruin is rapid.”
I like his quote. Here’s a few in the same vein:
Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.—Jesus
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a bandit and scarcity liked an armed man.—Solomon
With silver mines, recruiting grounds and a General of real genius...he thought himself invulnerable. In one battle he lost all three.—Auden
Over the years I and later we moved when it made sense to move, never over politics. Everything has worked out great so far. Each move (3 total) turned out to be a good idea.
I moved 10 years ago to live more of a self sufficient life and I’m still not fully set up but getting closer. I’ve never had 5-6 digits of money to put into things. Been chipping away a few hundred dollars at a time.
We were a day late but not dollar short on buying a fixer upper house on two occasions so we ended up buying a hunk of woods and started cutting trees for a driveway and spot to build a little house. Had phone installed just as house/cabin was done. Couple of years later, I had the easement cut and supplies gathered up to get a pole and meter installed and run electric service from it to the buildings which I did myself. No permits or having to hire contractors here.
We have four full time neighbors/families, with three being related to each other. Everyone else around us, including either side of us, lives somewhere else and uses their places here as a weekend retreat and hunting season spot.
Twenty miles from three different small towns but we do have a Dollar General going in a few miles away. There’s one in each of those three towns too plus grocery stores, convenient stores, auto parts stores, banks and two have walmarts. If this new one sells beer they may make it. Will probably carry a lot of groceries, some produce and meat which a lot of them are doing now.
Good post!
Anybody who think our country suffers from “extreme inequality” is ignorant and probably stupid. Not only are they are woefully ignorant about what life is like around the world, they are woefully ignorant about what life was like around more than 100 years ago.
Anybody who does genealogy can read the census data and see how many people lived in boarding houses, how many people rented rooms. Anyone lucky enough to have farm land and a couple of sons could rent out one of the sons to a neighbor. Life was tough then for most people. There was no help other than family or church, no welfare, no section 8 housing.
In my personal experience I once lived in a house in the Gatsby area. It was large, about 10,000 sq ft and one wing had 11 tiny rooms for live-in help. There were two tiny bathtubs, half the size of the tubs that were in each bedroom in the main house. There was no heat in the servants wing but every bedroom in the main house had a fireplace.
The people complaining about inequality in this country should be people paying 50% of their income in taxes not those who are collecting $50,000 a year in government handouts.
That’s depressing. Where did you move to? (Best wishes, wherever it was.)
Awesome. Left Jeffco 14 years ago, moved west and moved further west 3 years ago. Two great moves, each served us well and last move looks better all the time. Aging modifies desires and needs.
The people complaining about inequality in this country
Does that exist anywhere else?
Thanks for advice!
Nice work and grit, hats off!
“There are fewer affordable housing options than just a few years ago.”
The local (Knoxville area) real estate website we’ve used for years has changed a lot. When we started looking seriously, the total number of single-family properties for sale showed up as over 22,000. That was in 2010. Now when we log in it’s down to 8,000. That’s before drilling down with the criteria that you want. Basically, there are zero properties that fit our criteria — cost, square footage, cities, etc. — when we used to get query results of around 50.
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