On the upside, looks like the cost of living there is very low. Average home costs 60k or so.
Yeah, Bilbo really needs to go somewhere with better transportation. But at this point he's committed to staying here for awhile. I kinda wish he'd go for it, but I'm not exactly the best example in that area...
But I DID leave for four and a half years before I settled!
Sigh.... cheap to own, maybe, but renting's another matter. It's quite a bit. Of course at this point, owning a home is out of the question for me.
Probably if someone else could go with him, he'd go, but that's a big change for someone like us, isn't it? Being used to a whole family around, moving so far away is daunting.
Hmmm. Maybe he could be convinced to go if you and maybe one of your other siblings went along! That way, housing, etc. would be cheaper cause it would be shared.