I'm often curious why more people aren’t moving to low cost of living areas. I don’t know if I’ve just been fortunate, but I’m a college drop out who honestly hasn’t tried very hard in my “career”, but I moved out to Cincinnati which has a low cost of living at 23 (8 hours from my family) and I’ve managed to do very well for myself with a modest paying job (20ish an hour). I have 40k saved up and plan to buy a house this year. I wonder if other people who have went or started on a similar route are doing well for themselves.
And if you are in a high cost of living area, would you ever consider moving somewhere significantly cheaper?
This is basically me atm
My small town has one overpriced and poor quality grocery store, can't buy fresh produce there because it's usually spoiled already and everything that's not chips is far pricier than driving the 20+ minutes to Wal-Mart
When it comes to other amenities, we have two gas stations, four liquor stores, two dispensaries and five pizza places
It's a little fuckin crazy that I have to drive ten or more miles to get a goddamned tomato
This shit sucks, worst part of where I live. We got a Dollar General, which does have food, but it doesn't have produce. I guess the tradeoff being that I have ample space to grow produce, I have fruit trees, whatever. But still, it sucks.