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My cousin is getting married in a few weeks in the Dillon area in Colorado and we are driving out there from California. From Salt Lake City it looks like there are two choices, one on the two lane highway 40 mostly and another more southerly route that links up with I-70. I'm wondering what...

I'm interested in hearing everyone's favorite towns or cities that have an average home price of 150k or so. One neat town I've liked while driving through on the way to visiting relatives is Seward Nebraska. Not sure why its stood out to me, but it just has a nice small town feel to it with...

I've lived in California my entire life and its a great state to live in, in many ways. However, the discrepancy between housing costs here and elsewhere is large, and during the recent boom which ended in 2007 it was even bigger. Right now my house is worth about 340 k, and an equivalent...

I realize college costs have skyrocketed since my time in the late 1980's, but I'm wondering if many parents are wasting huge amounts of money on helping their kids through college. In our case, assuming our kids go to college they would be going to community college for two years, and for the...

When I was young I went to Europe alot, back in the far away 1980's. One thing I remember from those trips is that Americans would usually hit all the famous sites, going from one big city to another, making sure to see the usual suspects, the Eifel Tower, the Colosseum, famous Cathedrals etc...

It looks like from California to Europe ticket prices are somewhere in the 1,400 to 1,800 dollar range roundtrip. Has anyone found anything much lower than that over the last year?

In a few years time we might be FIRE, and one thing that intrigues me (my wife is open to the idea right now) would be to live in one spot for a few months and then move somewhere else, like Europe for the summer, east coast for the fall, back out west were we have family for winter and spring...

Love the forum. I'm 47, my wife 44 and we have two teenage kids. Working as a delivery driver (pizza plus pasta, salads, sandwiches etc) over the last 15 years we've saved a lot, and currently have assets of about 675k, including 10 % share ownership of the restaurant we work at (I work close...