I think of moving all the time. I'd have to get my daughter (and grandson) to go along.
I've been with the same company for 23 years and it's hard to consider starting over. If I move to New Hampshire, I'd pay higher real estate taxes and the same Mass. Income taxes. No place else is within commuting distance.
My program may have an opening in Colorado Springs, I'd like to see if I could shoehorn my way in. (I think I could convince my daughter to move.)
I don't know how anyone can stand living on the east (west) coast. It's just my midwest upbringing though. A nice house out here, decent, you can get for 150K, a job, making 60k is reasonable. You don't have the, I'm making 120k a year bragging rights, the traffic, the liberals, but, the value of the midwest has other perks, you can see stars, family, community and such. You might seriously consider it. It'll be a culture shock, I'm sure, but, the benefits outweigh the monitary rewards, even if you're 'just getting by' on 80k a year, that'll be more than enough for you to live good in the midwest.
Colorado Springs is a beautiful location, but don't count on paying a whole lot less for your car insurance. Colorado has some of the highest insurance rates in the nation because Colorado also has the highest percentage of uninsured motorists on the road. The last number I heard reported was that 3 in 10 drivers on the road in CO do not have insurance. When we moved from CO to Nebraska, we cut our auto insurance premiums almost in half and we increased our coverage slightly.
We've also been GEICO customers for over 18 years and we've never had a problem. Excellent help when someone else hit us, courteous service on the phone, and now we can do most anything online ourselves. We just bought a newer vehicle (out of state) and I went online and added it to our policy, took off the old vehicle, and printed out my coverage for a temp proof of insurance while driving home. We're pretty happy with GEICO. At least they're not jacking our rates every six months like clockwork (even with no tickets or accidents) like State Farm did when we had them.