It looks like we'll likely move to Portland or Tacoma this summer after giving serious consideration to Canada. I'm a little torn but GA is so gerrymandered that we'll be fucked for a long time with being Florida-lite that we have to get out given that I don't want my 5 year old daughter to basically have no access to any reproductive healthcare by the time she's a teenager.
Spokane is a decently blue city in a purple county in a deep red sea. It's not Seattle, but it's not most of modern day Iowa either. It has changed quite a bit for the better in the last few years
Most of you already know this, but time for a reminder for the few of you who don't. It is the long-term goal of the Republican Party - at the behest of the ultra-rich - to get rid of public education. They make the usual right wing claims that privatizing education will improve the product. Of course, that's their typical bull****. They don't care about the product. Instead, their motives are quite simple: the ultra-rich want get rid of public ed, privatize it, and reap profits from it. There will always be kids, so there will always be a revenue stream. Their greed knows no bounds.
Los Alamos looks kind of cool and has a highly rated district. NM is probably still off the board because of education, though. Don’t want to be locked into one location and have to move again.
Yeah and the problem is that the state supreme court and the state legislature are disproportionately red because of gerrymandering so therefore we get to have women being forced to give birth after a heartbeat this found if they don't know they're pregnant. Not going to put my daughter possibly through that crap, lake of fire for the South.
It’s tough to ask individual people to risk the health and future of their kid(s) because of some abstracted political goal of “hey maybe it won’t be a complete hellhole”
Those of you that moved away, how did you handle your family? My stepdad died in 2020 (covid) and I’m my mom’s only child. I feel like I would be leaving her all alone, even though she has friends that she hangs out with. I don’t want to hurt her, but I have to get out of Tennessee. Any advice?
Bellingham, WA could be in play. It's amazing. It's where I'd like to put down US roots in a few years. I'm infatuated with WA, but Seattle is so damn expensive and I'm not willing to work the hours required to live comfortably. And the winters are rough if you're not into winter sports. But from mid-June to mid-Oct there's literally no place I'd rather be.
My wife and I grew up in VA, me in a super conservative part and her in a very liberal part. After a few years of living and working in the DC area we picked up and moved to New England. We've been in MA for quite a while now and have 2 young children. The things you point out were very important to us as well when we were thinking of settling. I have some pretty strong feelings on some of these topics and on some of the states you mention. Feel free to DM me if you'd like to chat in more detail about it.
Same kind of scenario. My dad does daycare for our son and they generally see him pretty much daily. We’ll be moving their only grandchild(ren possibly by then) away after 5 years of such involvement. Will be a bit tough to navigate. Who knows, my mom might just retire and follow.
What they’re doing here is taking funding out of public schools and putting it into a scholarship voucher program for private schools. On top of defunding public education for all they’re essentially sending the wealthy to private schools on the state dime. The scholarship amount is thousands short per year of average tuition, meaning the lower and middle class families who can’t afford thousands a year just straight up get left behind. Rich stay rich and get better opportunities. The poor stay poor and have what little opportunity they had snatched away. It’s all about creating a class that can and a class that can not.
I still follow the Iowa news pretty often and Kim Reynolds can eat 1,000 dicks and then die; same can be said for Chuck Grassley.
I was just talking to one of my wife’s coworkers from when she was in WA and he said the schools in WA (Yelm) kinda sucked compared to where they are now in Texas (Killeen). Quick google search shows WA middle of the pack nationally which you wouldn’t expect — also the good public schools are in VERY expensive places.
This. I left Iowa pretty much immediately after junior college. Undergrad in Mississippi, interned at McNeese State, lived in New Orleans, then back to Iowa (lasted a year) and then to SoCal and now Denver. Moral of the story, live your own life, it's your happiness.
Rip it off like a bandaid. I was in same situation. Only child to a single parent. 10 years ago I moved to Colorado from New York. Best decision I ever made. Mom is still out in upstate NY. Has a few more years until she retires then she’ll move out here to watch her grandkids grow up. Sure I miss her at times but she visits 4x a year
This is a constant I see on this board and talking to others that moved far away from home. It's very rarely a regrettable decision.
Junction has a terrible education system and is why Lauren Boebert is a thing. The Western Slope is amazing, but the places you want to be are cost prohibitive.
What do you like about it? It’s on my list but also seems like a fairly boring mostly suburban area. I haven’t been there in almost 4 years though.
Foreign car analogies are wholly inappropriate for this conversation about midwestern corn. Also, nobody believes you about Illinois corn.
The triangle is awesome but NC has some of the more fucked up laws in the south which I’m sure you’re cognizant of. Hopefully the state will turn blue in the near future and a they can start working on fixing that. We’ve got friends in both Raleigh and Durham and love visiting both places.
My wife and I are starting to think retirement, and we're looking south of GJ in Montrose, Ridgway, Olathe areas. We need land for horses and it's nice country, but I'm not sure I want to spend market prices in that area on a house retiring in my mid-50's. We're going to visit/camp out there this summer to learn more, it's a great base camp location for access to a less crowded side of the Colorado Rockies. I'm guessing we end up south of US 50 between Salida and Pueblo instead - so much easier to get to Denver from there.
No idea yet. Much research to conduct and career paths to more clearly define in advance of setting budgets.
yep - that’s the one. We didn’t stay there but we had lunch up there and went back for cocktails at night. we rented this house: https://www.casatrescervezas.com/ highly recommend it for a large group
Minneapolis and Chicago are at the top of my list as they don't require me to retake the bar to get licensed. florida is no longer tenable.