quote:Originally posted by maryrose:quote:piqué
I am increasingly less tolerant of people who are unsophisticated and uneducated and with whom it is impossible to have a thoughtful conversation. It's not that they aren't very nice folks in most cases--they are. They'd give their right arm for you if you were in need--a great many of them would.
Maybe the wildfires will clear out the riffraff and cool off the housing market. One can hope.
I thought I'd pop in to see how y'all doing. Then I read this and remembered why I left. Entitled or entitled, eh? Shameful.
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fear is the thief of dreams
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However, this occurred to me: we drive through West Virginia a lot going back and forth to Ohio. Morgantown, home of WVU, is supposed to be really nice and the scenery is beautiful. And as I recall, WV did surprisingly well on the covid front - their governor was all in pretty early on with restrictions and vaccines and they came through with much better numbers than you'd expect. Also, they don't seem to be steeped in the southern culture you want to avoid. Might be a surprise contender!
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fear is the thief of dreams
quote:Re: Whidbey - great place, beautiful and spendy. It's also not at all easy to get in or out during the tourist season, which runs from around May - October. There's only one way on and off the island (duh), the ferries are fully booked, and the traffic is horrible. I've waited to get past the Mukilteo exit on I-5 for up to 1.5 hours of stop and go traffic, in both directions. So "easy access to Seattle" is definitely not true for at least half the year. I drive up and down I-5 a lot, and it's always touch and go in terms of traffic from Tacoma up through Everett. Some days it's a breeze, other days it's stop and go.
Random option might be someplace like Walla Walla, where Whitman College is. It's become a real center for wineries, etc. The town itself is small and charming imo, and Whitman provides a dose of intellect and activities (concerts, theater, etc.). But you are in the middle of freaking nowhere.
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fear is the thief of dreams
quote:Seriously, any place that has the things we want others want too, and all this work remotely stuff has pretty much made those places harder to find houses in.
quote:My experience (based on many moves) is you look forward to getting away from certain problems where you live only to end up with a whole set of new ones where you go.
quote:Boarding horses over there is pretty pricy too…
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Jodi
quote:Originally posted by jodi:
Have always felt it was a better deal to board than to own a place (time-wise especially). My bet is you will pay at least $600 or more a month on Whidbey for anyplace with an indoor arena (which you will want in the winter) The places with outdoor arena only are probably over $400 a month. My bigger question is how happy will you be riding mostly in arenas there - when you are used to being able to haul to the big wide open - the one thing that bummed me out when we moved from Idaho (miles of unfenced farm fields and dirt roads) to Western Washinton was that everything was fenced and cross fenced and trail riding was much more difficult to do.
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fear is the thief of dreams
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