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08-18-2019, 04:23 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
Posts: 6,335
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Niche and city-data
Got all involved in the college bit and directed members to Niche and the college section... My bad.
Niche is an excellent website that goes far beyond just colleges, but goes in to neighborhoods and businesses and availability of jobs, and ratings of companies where you might be or have been employed. Growing every day.
https://www.niche.com/
The other website is City-Data...
City-Data.com - Stats about all US cities - real estate, relocation info, crime, house prices, cost of living, races, home value estimator, recent sales, income, photos, schools, maps, weather, neighborhoods, and more
At the very, very least, learn about your own city/town.
Put both of these in your favorite places, or you will be left behind.
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08-18-2019, 05:01 PM
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: Peru
Posts: 6,335
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Looked up one of my old hometowns... Vineyard Haven, MA...
Median income $53K
Median home $616K
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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08-18-2019, 05:34 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: St. Charles
Posts: 3,903
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Quote:
Originally Posted by imoldernu
Looked up one of my old hometowns... Vineyard Haven, MA...
Median income $53K
Median home $616K
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That's because no one living full time in Vineyard Haven actually works there. The workers are seasonal (for the most part), or they take the ferry over in the morning.
I envy you for being able to live there back when it was affordable. Beautiful place.
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08-18-2019, 08:45 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Berkeley, Denver, CO, USA
Posts: 1,406
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08-18-2019, 08:56 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: May 2015
Posts: 528
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08-19-2019, 04:53 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: NC
Posts: 21,204
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^^ Excellent list of resources, I used most of them in our search, probably Sperling’s and City-Data the most. https://www.areavibes.com/ is another good one IME.
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08-19-2019, 05:45 PM
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Full time employment: Posting here.
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: An Un-Organized Township of Maine
Posts: 801
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I hangout at City-Data a lot. There are many sub-forums.
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Retired at 42 and I have been enjoying retirement for 18 years [so far].
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08-19-2019, 05:52 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 284
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also, bestplaces.net
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08-20-2019, 09:15 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2013
Location: ATL --> Flyover Country
Posts: 6,649
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
^^ Excellent list of resources, I used most of them in our search, probably Sperling’s and City-Data the most. https://www.areavibes.com/ is another good one IME.
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I looked at Area Vibes and really wonder about some of their findings. For our area, they show a "C+" for housing but just below that shows #1 BIG CITY HOUSING "award" badge; that makes no sense to me.
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08-20-2019, 09:44 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: Champaign
Posts: 4,689
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Great resource. I had no idea of our crime rate. And I agree with the reviews, campus town has lost its character. To many high rise apartment buildings. We're stuck here for awhile and might as well enjoy the good things.
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