Sounds like you need one of these.
Posted on 06/16/2006 7:54:24 AM PDT by SantaLuz
Freepers I need your help. We're very seriously thinking of moving out of Southern California. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1636409/posts
We've read the books "50 Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family" and the comprehensive "Cities Ranked and Rated". We've used the websites www.bestplaces.net and www.findyourspot.com. We've received the travel guides from over 40 states we're thinking of travelling or moving to. But I think the people of FreeRepulic might be the best resource of all for recommending places to raise a homeschooling family in the US. Many of the people here travel quite a bit and have noticed trends that affect families.
So if you could move your family to any affordable city (median home prices < $400,000) in the US where would it be?
Thanks so much!
Fort Bend or Montgomery County, Texas. SW or North of Houston.
Austin Texas and surrounding area. Living in Toronto now, but it is a longer term goal. Nice city, great weather, fabulous food and excellent people. (Of course, I like to wear my hear big, too)
How often do Hurricanes affect those areas? Is it harder to get flood insurance near the beaches in Florida? Can you but a house there for < $400K. Don't get me wrong I love the ocean and I surf and used to live 1 mile from the beach near San Diego. But my wife is afraid of Hurricanes and Tornados. But we'll definitely be traveling to Florida so we'll check those beaches out.
Friends of ours live in Brookings and love it. I've only seen pictures but oh my it *is* lovely.
1/6th gravity, a good night's sleep and all my Earthly cares far behind me!
Is that Brookings Oregon?
Say ya to the uppers there too eh?
Sounds like you need one of these.
Whispering back... what city in Oklahoma?
You like snow?
Brookings is beautiful, I like Bandon myself but then again I am partial to small coastal comunities.
However, they sometimes have big quakes here anyway. Not all quakes are a result of lateral fault slippage. You have to go to California for that.
Bedford Street. West Village, near Chumley's Speakeasy.
I like Christmas snow, and some dusting now and then. But my wife is from Phoenix and We've lived in southern US for most of my lives. On the other hand I've traveled to Denmark, Sweden and Finland in the wintertime and enjoyed it. So I'm keeping an open mind if everything else about a city is great.
We're looking to move (somewhere) w/in 5 years so this thread is of interest to me. Thanks for starting it. :o)
As others have said, Texas. I live north of Houston in a rural part of Montgomery County. I bought the land (50 acres) and built a 4300 sq ft 4 bedroom house about eleven years ago for about $250K. Even with the improvements I have done (2 wind generators, second water well, others) the property value is under $400K. Annual taxes (including school) run under $1K.
Hmmm....off to check Bandon.
With both Kennedy and Kerry in the same state -- they've changed the name to: MASSOFTWOSHITS
Semper Fi
The upper peninsula of Michigan is pleasant, not crowded, and land is cheap. My folks retired up there. Don't know about the job thing though.
In that case, I agree with the person who was in northern Virginia. Beautiful there. Humid, but beautiful.
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