Seriously. I feel like relocating anywhere is like chess...you have to be two or three steps ahead of your opponent in real estate or else you get squeezed out.
As much as I’m trying to be more dispassionate about this stuff, my heart does go out to the locals who have lived (and invested) in these communities. Just as they’re ready to buy their first home a bunch of rich pricks swoop in from out of state. And as the article states, it’s not like their wages are being adjusted for the higher cost of living. Seattlities are doing the very thing to other cities that was done to them a few decades ago.
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good when it comes to real estate.
I keep trying to divine where is the next hot spot going to be among the medium size towns. Seems like anything within 45 mins of a GA airport and having good outdoor recreation amenities is long since discovered. How are prices in Taos @DerekJohnson ?
It has cooled off
Looking at Zillow now. Is there a law that every home has to be pueblo influenced architecture?
My condo had dropped in value by $17,000, according to Redfin
I know it's not fun to use as an example, but I believe in Seattle bouncing back and will stay long here. I know I'm going to move someday, but the days of me relocating and finding another job at the same level and comp. as what I have here are behind me. I have entertained a couple of recruiters and almost bit on two offers, but ultimately decided fuck it, I'll stay and finish here.
As one of the people who previously predicted Seattle’s DOOM.gif, you might be right. Rents are dropping and the light rail will be coming. Who knows? I think for you @creepycoug it’s smart to let it ride.
My reasons to relocate aren’t financial...I’ve just lived here too long and desperately want a change.
I feel you sista. I've been itching to get out for a while, even if ostensibly Seattle has much going for it. The weather has tended to bother me more as I age.
With the kids going to school back east, I have done extensive travel ... not just to the big obvious spots, but all around following them in sports. I've been all over western Mass, all over upstate NY, all over Connecticut and this past summer all around Rhode Island and the coast. There are a lot of cool places to live back there and, if you stay out of upstate NY, you get better weather. Hear me out before lol'ing at me. Yeah, the winters are more harsh and last longer ... but you see blue sky and sun MUCH more often than you do here, and I have found that matters to me. I can handle the cold despite my swarthy genetics; I just need to see the fucking sky at least 3 times a week.
Cali is wonderful but as I've reported previously, it's not my vibe. In terms of places I've felt I could move to and be happy, many are in greater New England. Boston is the shit, but way too fucking expensive. It's like a half-click more pricey than here. But Providence is really nice. New Port is super nice (but spendy). Hartford, eh, not so much. But there are a lot of smaller towns that are close enough to the cities in NE that you could choose from. There are a shit load of them on the Connecticut southern coast along Long Island Sound, and RI is full of waterfront. I also really like Western Mass. Any of those college towns, like Amherst, Northampton, etc. would do. Saratoga Springs may just be the coolest small town I've been to anywhere, but the weather is different in upstate than it is in New England proper. It's a lot like here with the grey, only way harsher. Of course the problem with New England are the taxes unless you're in New Hampshire. They don't call it Taxachussetts for nothing.
Yup. In my research of different cities/regions I’ve been surprised how much weather has slowly creeped (heh) up the list of things I find important. The rain/gloom has really been doing a number on me this year, which is not surprising when you no long have fun activities/normal socializing to offset it (thanks COVID).
I’m hopeful in the next year or two I’ll be in a place in my career where I can be one of the remote Zoom-town workers and experience someplace else.
Where do you want to go? What's the general plan if it all works out?
I’ve always been drawn to the mountain-west region. Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado. I’m also starting to wonder if the Southwest (Arizona or New Mexico) might be a good area for me. I just worry about that region’s water supply in the coming decades.
I know it's not fun to use as an example, but I believe in Seattle bouncing back and will stay long here. I know I'm going to move someday, but the days of me relocating and finding another job at the same level and comp. as what I have here are behind me. I have entertained a couple of recruiters and almost bit on two offers, but ultimately decided fuck it, I'll stay and finish here.
As one of the people who previously predicted Seattle’s DOOM.gif, you might be right. Rents are dropping and the light rail will be coming. Who knows? I think for you @creepycoug it’s smart to let it ride.
My reasons to relocate aren’t financial...I’ve just lived here too long and desperately want a change.
I feel you sista. I've been itching to get out for a while, even if ostensibly Seattle has much going for it. The weather has tended to bother me more as I age.
With the kids going to school back east, I have done extensive travel ... not just to the big obvious spots, but all around following them in sports. I've been all over western Mass, all over upstate NY, all over Connecticut and this past summer all around Rhode Island and the coast. There are a lot of cool places to live back there and, if you stay out of upstate NY, you get better weather. Hear me out before lol'ing at me. Yeah, the winters are more harsh and last longer ... but you see blue sky and sun MUCH more often than you do here, and I have found that matters to me. I can handle the cold despite my swarthy genetics; I just need to see the fucking sky at least 3 times a week.
Cali is wonderful but as I've reported previously, it's not my vibe. In terms of places I've felt I could move to and be happy, many are in greater New England. Boston is the shit, but way too fucking expensive. It's like a half-click more pricey than here. But Providence is really nice. New Port is super nice (but spendy). Hartford, eh, not so much. But there are a lot of smaller towns that are close enough to the cities in NE that you could choose from. There are a shit load of them on the Connecticut southern coast along Long Island Sound, and RI is full of waterfront. I also really like Western Mass. Any of those college towns, like Amherst, Northampton, etc. would do. Saratoga Springs may just be the coolest small town I've been to anywhere, but the weather is different in upstate than it is in New England proper. It's a lot like here with the grey, only way harsher. Of course the problem with New England are the taxes unless you're in New Hampshire. They don't call it Taxachussetts for nothing.
Yup. In my research of different cities/regions I’ve been surprised how much weather has slowly creeped (heh) up the list of things I find important. The rain/gloom has really been doing a number on me this year, which is not surprising when you no long have fun activities/normal socializing to offset it (thanks COVID).
I’m hopeful in the next year or two I’ll be in a place in my career where I can be one of the remote Zoom-town workers and experience someplace else.
Where do you want to go? What's the general plan if it all works out?
I’ve always been drawn to the mountain-west region. Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado. I’m also starting to wonder if the Southwest (Arizona or New Mexico) might be a good area for me. I just worry about that region’s water supply in the coming decades.
Idaho is on my list because of @PurpleThrobber and because I've been and I like it. I'm also white enough to pass and can just use the non-Latino version of my first name. And for people who would take offense, my hispanic last name is not stereotypically hispanic (thought it is a common name).
Fuck! Boise was one of the places I was looking at moving to so I could escape from the Seattle/California douchebags.
*Sigh*
Boise jumped the shark a dozen years ago. Aside from the 100,000 native Boiseans, it’s all Seattle/Cali douchebags.
Mrs Snow is a born and raised Boise native. My guess is she would like it better now than in her youth. Neither one us is at home in a deeply red or blue zip. Purple is more our speed.
Fuck! Boise was one of the places I was looking at moving to so I could escape from the Seattle/California douchebags.
*Sigh*
Boise jumped the shark a dozen years ago. Aside from the 100,000 native Boiseans, it’s all Seattle/Cali douchebags.
Mrs Snow is a born and raised Boise native. My guess is she would like it better now than in her youth. Neither one us is at home in a deeply red or blue zip. Purple is more our speed.
I vaguely remembering you say that. The political landscape is part of my problem - like you I’m looking to be in a purple zip code, but 1) where are those places anymore? 2) with migration how long will they stay that way? Everything changes and evolves, sure, but as I get older I don’t have the patience or energy for things moving at such a breakneck pace anymore.
Fuck! Boise was one of the places I was looking at moving to so I could escape from the Seattle/California douchebags.
*Sigh*
Boise jumped the shark a dozen years ago. Aside from the 100,000 native Boiseans, it’s all Seattle/Cali douchebags.
Mrs Snow is a born and raised Boise native. My guess is she would like it better now than in her youth. Neither one us is at home in a deeply red or blue zip. Purple is more our speed.
Enjoy your little knitting circle. The men are talking in the Tug
The Tug is always gonna get the most clicks of the non sports boreds. Nothing gets folks fired up like arguing politics. I don’t know that it checks any boxes for manliness.
Fuck! Boise was one of the places I was looking at moving to so I could escape from the Seattle/California douchebags.
*Sigh*
Boise jumped the shark a dozen years ago. Aside from the 100,000 native Boiseans, it’s all Seattle/Cali douchebags.
Mrs Snow is a born and raised Boise native. My guess is she would like it better now than in her youth. Neither one us is at home in a deeply red or blue zip. Purple is more our speed.
Enjoy your little knitting circle. The men are talking in the Tug
The Tug is always gonna get the most clicks of the non sports boreds. Nothing gets folks fired up like arguing politics. I don’t know that it checks any boxes for manliness.
The unemployment rate is statistically higher in the Tug. It’s a tavern for Christ’s sake.
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I don’t like the idea of being one of a horde of jerks that moves to a city and destroys what made it awesome, but maybe that’s going to happen.
We just open the doors at the Tug and its filled up with scum and villainy
Enjoy your little knitting circle. The men are talking in the Tug
I know where I'd rather live.
Maybe I should start a "Fuck you Jay Inslee!" or racial and ethnic IQ scores thread. That'll draw in the high rollers.
Trying to imagine a smart guy like @DawgsCanDance wanting to jump into that mud puddle.
You don't
And we aren't afraid to spike the ball