I have moved all my life, so it's been odd being in one house for 16 years, not sure I like it. DW and I would love to move to, but a) it would be crazy to walk away from a good job right now and b) we can't figure out where we want to go next. Every place we think we like is either too expensive or undesirable weather (funny how they correlate). And with real estate expenses, we don't want to move until we are pretty sure we know where to go. We want moderate temps, low cost of living and near water. Just some we've crossed off in our "search":
[-]coastal New England [/-]too expensive
[-]Florida[/-] lived there, yuck
[-]Midwest[/-] live there, yuck
[-]Madison WI[/-] way too cold
[-]Naperville IL[/-] way too cold
[-]Charleston SC [/-] too hot, a little expensive
[-]Wilmington NC [/-]
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[-]Austin TX [/-] too hot
[-]San Diego or San Fran[/-] way too expensive
[-]Seattle WA[/-] area
[-]various small towns W MI along Lake Mich [/-] too cold & expensive
[-]Portland/Eugune OR[/-] too expensive & rainy
[-]Annapolis MD [/-] too expensive
[-]Asheville NC [/-] friends there tell us it's gone downhill
[-]Sante Fe NM [/-] expensive and DW says NO
[-]Gaithersburg MD [/-](The Kentlands) too expensive
and so on, and so on...