A lot of factors should come into being analyzed before pulling the plug and moving.
a. Do you have family, who loves and cares for you and vice versa near to your current home?
b. How do those families feel about moving or maybe need to move?
c. The future ability of Joe and Josephine Normal being able to fly back and forth to be with families is being killed. In a few years, probably, only the elites with private planes and pilots will be flying in America. Taking plane rides from us will “Save the Planet” as they push their climate B$ 24/7. That ties in with electric cars.
d. When we only have electric cars, any drive over 250 miles in a day will become for most of us a dream of the past. This is what our ruling elites want for us.
e. Can you afford to stay where you now live depends on your current financial situation and what the future holds or doesn’t hold. Last but not least the tax laws of any state where you live.
f. Family compounds are happening all over America. Homes with large lots are being granted permission to build separate small homes for the grannies or even an addition to the bigger/older homes. We have 2 new grannies’ homes in our culdesac and more to come.
g. The number 1, over riding consideration is the safety of your family, re where you now live and what the near future holds re your family’s personal safety.
Besides economic concerns, there is a reason why California and Illinois rented more U Hauls last year than most states.
We have relatives/friends in Illinois, and the DC area in their 70’s to 80’s looking at safer states to live in. That reason is concern re the current lack of safety for their families living in much of California at this time..
Many will move to be near younger relatives. Floriduh at this time is often the planned escape state for many of our relatives and friends of all ages from sea to sea.
The elites will buy into high security/closed/in and lock gated areas the elites live in. They will hire former Spec Ops as they leave our military to be their guards. These elites will hire the best lawyers to represent their guards and will own the local DA’s controlled by SoreA$$ and his relatives.
These super rich elites will control any local/city/county and state elected political buddies.
They will also own the local media to obscure/sanction the removal of any semi human trash from these elite areas.
Author talks about moving to a rural or semi-rural area, where you can get local food, perhaps growing your own. Before you do, watch a few episodes of ‘Homestead Rescue’ where people fled to try to make it in a homestead and were absolutely clueless.
Pro-tip to save time: how nice is their waiting room? What is the quality of other people there? It's just a rule of thumb, but works great in a pinch. The doctors that earned straight As in school also tend to get As in interior decorating, hiring top support staff, and attracting discriminating clientele.
Similar to Pareto's 80/20 principle, life is about 90% failure, 10% success. You have to visit about 10 restaurants and stores to find one you'd go back to. Only 10% of businesses succeed 10 years. Only about 10% of the people you meet are worth meeting again. Moving to a new location means experiencing the pain of that 90% failure rate all over again.
Because of life's general 90% failure rate, it should be far easier to make money shorting loser stocks than finding winners. It's a mystery why shorting stocks is so difficult.
Difficult times make for difficult choices.
With the thought of a possible future move always in mind, I never buy any furniture that I cannot either sell quickly, leave behind, or (most importantly) lift by myself.
good luck moving in Colorado right now: total available houses and condos for sale on the front range between castle rock and fort collins is under 2,000, and over 1,000 homes just literally burned to the ground in the Marshall fire a couple of weeks ago ...
looks to me like the entire residential real estate market is frozen in colorado right now, presumably because there’s essentially nothing to buy after you sell your home ...
thank you, Covid Joe!
A modern day Malthusian.
Well, time will tell.
Good things to think about, but, the author goes back and forth, too much.