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Brilliant_Rock
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Niel|1415711641|3781226 said:missy|1415710386|3781209 said:Niel|1415709012|3781195 said:Hahahaha. SAme for me.Rena7|1415708591|3781193 said:Where I live maybe $130,000. That is one of the reasons I live here.
I wish I could find a town we could be happy living in for a great quality of life at a more affordable price so we would be able to retire at a reasonable age. I guess it is all about compromises and what your specific needs are. I know I have been thinking about this issue for many years now and cannot find a place where cost of living is more affordable, where the climate is good for us (well for me as my dh likes the change of seasons and can tolerate the cold much better than I can...my ideal is mild and sunny most of the time) and there is plenty of culture and life around. And other amenities of course but just naming a few. Also don't want to be too far from family as parents are getting older so that limits us as well.
Gypsy, have you decided where you guys are moving to yet?
I think I am quite lucky to live where I do. I live outside a town called Grand Rapids. Good cultural scene, great hospitals, the surrounding towns have good school districts, the weather is hard for people with the lake effect snow, but other than that I'm quite happy with where we live. I can handle the snow, so that's not a bother.
It gets ranked in the top 10 often for "rising cities" or "best places to raise a family"... Things like that. Best ranking we usually get is " beer city"
I live south of GR. Grand Rapids is the closest "big city". That's where we go shopping if we want to drive further than the stores off of M-6. Celebration Cinema North used to be our main movie place but they just closed the candy store next to it so now we have no reason to go that far and will hit Celebration South for all the holiday movies. Who knew there were Pricescopers in my back yard.