The cost of living for Flagstaff shows to be 22% above the US average.

Hope you do better than this with your financial advice... ;)

Well, if you follow his financial advice then you'll have sooo much money that it feels like a low cost area;D

When I was out there 3 years ago, there were a lot of affordable homes OUTSIDE of Flagstaff proper.


Shouldn't you be practicing carrier landings or soemthing??;)

Thanks you gave me something to think about. I guess if I moved I should rent for a while.

Was just there last week. I thought it was a neat town and a definate possibility for a retirement destination if you want a college town.

I'm just guessing here, but I suspect things might have changed a little in the past three years. The COL index shows the average price of a home in Flagstaff to be 59% higher than the US Average. But for all I know a doublewide out in the county somewhere could be a real bargain. ;)

No one in their right mind tries to land an airplane on a moving postage stamp....

Lot of dry gahdfersaken options offered here. In that vein, other than a cemetery, this might be the last place you'd want to be: Zzyzx Ca.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California

I was through there a couple of years ago. It seemed like a nice little town, the locals have learned to take the hype about Area 51 in stride; many are cashing in on the fascination. Lots of T-shirt shops, aliens on the lamposts, etc. The Crash Site Cafe was good. It is a long way from Roswell to anywhere else, though. Ruidoso looked a little better to me. Roswell is also very windy.

Las Cruces, NM or El Paso, TX depending on what you consider low cost of living.

I have alwys liked El Paso. The Mission trail going south and east out of El Paso is really interesting.

https://www.co.el-paso.tx.us/History/missiontrail.htm

But I am not sure I would deliberately move onto the border now. I saw a TV program a few days ago about Laredo/Nuevo Laredo. Nasty situation. US teens being recruited into Mexican drug gangs, becoming way more violent, etc. That border has never meant much, and Mexican drug gangs have become extremely rich and powerful.

Overall, I think the US population other than those who live along the border are not up to speed about the current conditions down there.

Ha

Ha, you appear very lucid today. Those new meds must be working for ya. ;)

Thre are several nice towns in Southern AZ with low humidity/low costs of living. Sierra Vista, Bisbee, Green Valley, Casa Grande, etc. but there are a lot of illegal immigrants passing through. Thankfully, most of them are doing that, just passing through; there are better opportunities for employment and bigger places to get lost in further north than in small towns close to the border.

I second Ha's comments about ElPaso. Nice place to visit , but I wouldn't want to live there. Now, up the road a few miles in in Las Cruces might be another story...

rec7,
Why is low humidity your main criteria? For yourself or do you want to store equipment?

I was thinking the same thing. Throw in some of the mountain communities East of Phoenix like Globe/Miami. Lovely country.

I gotta tell you, Globe would be a real stretch for me...

I have always lived in MO and have always disliked the humidity. I thought it would be good to live in a place with low humidity.

Your "rent for a while" idea is the way to go. Try before you buy.

Apparently after the air force captured them they got free somehow and took refuge in walmart. LOL

Lots of aliens working at walmart in the southwest.

illegal, extraterrestrial, or both?