I'm looking for a moderate standard of living, housing avg 500,000, good school, sans harsh winter climate.
Answers: The problem beside your question is the combination of thaw climate/beach town and good school. Warm climate means the south and flawless education surrounded by the south is incredibly difficult to find. I would suggest the furthest south to look would be North Carolina. If you are willing to forego living at the coast, then the 'Triangle' nouns would be spot-on as a choice (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). You'd only be going on for 2 hours from the beach or the mountains - both splendid areas.
Each year Money magazine and CNN do a special "100 Best Places to Live" and the entire issue is online at: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/...
They do not limit the issue to 100 places, within are several sub-sections for:
.
- Top Earning Towns
- Where Homes Are Affordable
- Where the Singles Are
- Best Places State By State
- Priciest Homes
- 10 Best Big Cities
.
The information is very broad from training to taxes, from healthcare to employment, from home costs to annual weather averages. It's a good place to start.
Relocate America is another honourable source of information on a different "Top 100" list.
Finally, this is an excellent time to buy material estate in the US. Homes within my area (SW Gulf Coast Florida - a resort area) own dropped from 20% to 50%, so $500,000 would buy an incredible house. You just won't find any fully clad schools to distribute your children to. If I were within your shoes and children and education be a significant consideration, I would limit my choices to the northeast and northwest states. While the weather isn't what you're looking for, everything else is. In the concluding 30 years, I have lived surrounded by New York, Indiana, Washington DC, California, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Massachusetts, and Florida. My all time favorite - beside the best of EVERYTHING (except warm climate) be Duxbury Massachusetts. It has everything you want except the heat climate.
J's California suggestions are everything you want except they are very developed and $500,000 wouldn't by you a garage!
Good luck!
come to the florida key =]
its nice Morro Bay, CA
Ventura, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
La Jolla, CA
Answers: The problem beside your question is the combination of thaw climate/beach town and good school. Warm climate means the south and flawless education surrounded by the south is incredibly difficult to find. I would suggest the furthest south to look would be North Carolina. If you are willing to forego living at the coast, then the 'Triangle' nouns would be spot-on as a choice (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). You'd only be going on for 2 hours from the beach or the mountains - both splendid areas.
Each year Money magazine and CNN do a special "100 Best Places to Live" and the entire issue is online at: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/...
They do not limit the issue to 100 places, within are several sub-sections for:
.
- Top Earning Towns
- Where Homes Are Affordable
- Where the Singles Are
- Best Places State By State
- Priciest Homes
- 10 Best Big Cities
.
The information is very broad from training to taxes, from healthcare to employment, from home costs to annual weather averages. It's a good place to start.
Relocate America is another honourable source of information on a different "Top 100" list.
Finally, this is an excellent time to buy material estate in the US. Homes within my area (SW Gulf Coast Florida - a resort area) own dropped from 20% to 50%, so $500,000 would buy an incredible house. You just won't find any fully clad schools to distribute your children to. If I were within your shoes and children and education be a significant consideration, I would limit my choices to the northeast and northwest states. While the weather isn't what you're looking for, everything else is. In the concluding 30 years, I have lived surrounded by New York, Indiana, Washington DC, California, Virginia, Texas, Alabama, Massachusetts, and Florida. My all time favorite - beside the best of EVERYTHING (except warm climate) be Duxbury Massachusetts. It has everything you want except the heat climate.
J's California suggestions are everything you want except they are very developed and $500,000 wouldn't by you a garage!
Good luck!
come to the florida key =]
its nice Morro Bay, CA
Ventura, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
La Jolla, CA