Oh yea I am a teacher and have side gig as coach so not out of reach for some of the crew!
Oh yea I am a teacher and have side gig as coach so not out of reach for some of the crew!
The grass always seems greener elsewhere but I caution EVERY place in the US will have it's own issues.
1. People moving from CA/NY/etc.. to the Southern states likes AZ,TX,FL --- are only bringing their problems with them. CA is highly populated at 39 million. The same issues they experience will migrate with you to your new place.
2. States like TX and FL don't have income tax but that was enacted well before the population explosion. In effect, by moving there you will force them to install an income tax (re: bringing your problems with you) eventually. Oil and Gas royalties will only help so much for needed repairs and education funding and so on.
3. Climate change: you conservative folks just play along and pretend you believe in this. AZ, TX, and FL are the worst places to move. Two of those three states are predicted to have incredible droughts with an increasing population sucking the juice. Those three states will also eventually become incredibly hot even by southern standards. A paradise for running? I think not. Think more like the middle east hot.
4. For you conservatives from NY who don't like colored folk: lots of Mexicans down there.
I foresee the coming overpopulation of these desirable states to create massive issues like high traffic congestion, incredibly city pollution levels, and general degradation of quality of life. Again, bringing your problems from your current places.
coahc wrote:
Oh yea I am a teacher and have side gig as coach so not out of reach for some of the crew!
Brad Croker?
Common sense gun laws? lololol
Scottsdale is a bit too hot in the summer
Average PT salary is around 85k/yr so I personally am looking at homes in gulf-side Florida with a pool at like 275-400k. More realistic for the non- tech millionaires.
Lol. Where are they gonna get their water in 5 years? 😂😂😂
America's fury wrote:
Lol. Where are they gonna get their water in 5 years? 😂😂😂
Nestle will provide it for a little fee.
Is there a similar region with good value where the weather is cold all the time? My wife hates hot weather.
People have been flocking to AZ for decades. Scottsdale population was 80K in 1980. It's over 250K today. I live in Chandler/Gilbert. The combined population was 13K in 1980. Now it's well over 500K.
However, home values here have recently skyrocketed. The home I bought in 2015 for 490K just sold for 690K. Not sure if this is a bubble or being driven by true market forces.
LOL at Steve wrote:
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:
You are right about mass relocation happening. Housing is outrageous in California. People are generally choosing Texas to flock to. Houston and Austin in particular. Florida could be another option due to loose restrictions on covid19 right now. People are also moving out of areas where the police is being defended as more crime is being committed there.
What were you trying to say?
Dumb as dirt.
I live in Minneapolis, police are not defended here. It is a $h!+ show. So much vandalism and graffiti and car-jackings every week and random gang shootings. Police can't do anything without being attacked. Last month they went to disperse a homeless camp where they trashed up a full city block, they got attacked by all of the losers who saw that the police were there. They came out of the woodwork and attacked them. They were there doing their job because city officials told them to disperse the encampment.
Actually a lot are coming here to northern NV. Way better than AZ. Mild altitude, better weather, better outdoors (lakes, mountains, desert, rivers, snow), no state tax, 1hr flight from LA, lots of jobs, 4 hour drive to bay area.
I never get why people find regional differences in real estate values surprising, unequal, or even fascinating.
The knowledge of the differences is important though, especially for those early in their careers. One of the best lifetime decisions one can make is to choose to start their career in an "expensive" market such as California or the northeast. Yeah the prices might he shocking, but start working in NY SF Boston or DC when you are in your early 20s and if you are just moderately successful then you'll be purchasing a nice house in the area by the time you are 30 and have the ability to buy a mega mansion in a place like AZ if you choose to move your career elsewhere. Stick in the expensive market until you are 40 and you can be buying a LARGE house in the expensive market then or just choose to retire a lot earlier. You are opening yourself up to a lot more options in the future vs choosing to live in a place like Kansas city when you are 22. You might prefer KC, but 7-8 years working in an expensive market you might like less instead I'd say is totally worth it in the greater picture. It's a LOT harder to move to a nice place like NYC or SF when you are 40 after having lived in OKC for the previous 20 years than vice versa.
Ultra rich wrote:
Is there a similar region with good value where the weather is cold all the time? My wife hates hot weather.
Omaha.
LOL at Steve wrote:
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:
You are right about mass relocation happening. Housing is outrageous in California. People are generally choosing Texas to flock to. Houston and Austin in particular. Florida could be another option due to loose restrictions on covid19 right now. People are also moving out of areas where the police is being defended as more crime is being committed there.
What were you trying to say?
Dumb as dirt.
Obviously meant defunded. My keyboard has autocorrect which I do not want. I will turn it off. The key point I will make is that autocorrect is for the mqny dumb people in the world and it actually screws over the smart people who know how to spell exceptionally.
You can't tell from the photo, but the kitchen, dining room and living room are like half outdoors, the back walls are tall sliding glass doors that open it to the outside. Also has a mud room where you can put your bike, running shoes, golf clubs. Has a study where you could set up your video conferences so that the background is a mountain view. Stainless steel fridge shown in models is $10k. You can make the pool an infinity pool and add fountains. This is right next to a hiking trail called Tom's Thumb.
You have to think about real estate as buying the land and not the actual structure that sit on it. Where land is cheap, buying a nice house is easy.
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:
Obviously meant defunded. My keyboard has autocorrect which I do not want. I will turn it off. The key point I will make is that autocorrect is for the mqny dumb people in the world and it actually screws over the smart people who know how to spell exceptionally.
But you are not one of these smart people, that's for sure.
STEVE THE ADDICT^^^^^^"""""""" wrote:
LOL at Steve wrote:
What were you trying to say?
Dumb as dirt.
Obviously meant defunded. My keyboard has autocorrect which I do not want. I will turn it off. The key point I will make is that autocorrect is for the mqny dumb people in the world and it actually screws over the smart people who know how to spell exceptionally.
The poster boy for many dumb people strikes again 😂😂😂
Please provide the listing because unless it's a very undesirable location that's plenty higher than 900k, more like 1.3 or so. My neighbor's just went for around 840k for a 1995 build, 3 bed, 2 bath, N. Scottsdale (Pima and 101 area) lot. But yes, real estate is very attractively priced to someone coming from the West Coast which is why there's nothing available to purchase.
This doesn't look like a 900k house to me. Maybe double it. I live in Flagstaff in a nearly 40 year old ranch house with 1900 sq feet and a handful of acres, and my house is currently worth over a half a million dollars, somehow. The AZ market is bonkers.