My wife and I are contemplating a move somewhere -- anywhere, but somewhere better than LA -- to raise our two young children.
I thought there'd be no better place than Free Republic to get an interesting thread going that could serve a utility for beyond my needs.
(Because we have friends and family in New York City, we were thinking maybe somewhere in the Hamptons. So I could be in hissing distance of Alec Baldwin, too.)
I live in the Hamptons with a wife and two small childern and I'm thinking of moving. You can buy my house! It is just beautiful here from June-September but it is unbelievably expensive. I'm looking for better year-round weather (Florida) with a more resonable cost of living.
If you don't have a lot (and I mean a lot) of equity in your house to put down on a house here you are pretty much out of luck. We bought our first house in 1996 for $130k and we had an offer on it for $330k last year. It's a 1600 sq ft. contemporary. No garage, no pool, no finished basement - I mean it's nothing special but home prices have just exploded over the past 3-4 years. To top it off, I turned the offer down and I'm renting the house knowing that prices are only going up! It's just crazy.