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?
I’m in a very high CoL area in California and am contemplating moving to a very similar city to OP’s, mainly as that’s where my partner’s family is from.
Our main concerns are around healthcare/education, as our kiddo has some significant needs that California is surprisingly great at (free PT+OT until the age of 21)…but as we can only afford to live in a rented 1 bedroom apartment here, it’s a complicated trade off!
We’d miss the hiking/camping that we can do here, and as deeply and monstrously neolib as this place is, trading it for somewhere that’s more outwardly fashy doesn’t feel promising.
well you could move to the cheaper areas of california, but the weather's much worse and the people get pretty fashy
still get the protection of the state laws, though