YTH,Vernal could be the city of their dreams, or not.
Thanks- we looked at Vernal at one time. I will relook!! Memory is not so good, can't recall what we found.
YTH,Vernal could be the city of their dreams, or not.
AZJ,You may remember in your last Douglas Az thread I mentioned friends who grew up in Douglas moved away, recently retired and moved back to Sierra Vista. I talked with him after you posted the thread and he said Douglas is a hard no. There's a reason a 3500 sq ft house on 40 acres is that price. Hope you find it and could live with whatever it is. And it's 2 long day's drive to Castle Rock. If you have to be in southern Az look at Sierra Vista, you could walk to work.
Do you think his employer would transfer him? Where does his parents live?Grandkids are four and two years old. My Daughter and her husband both work in Denver. My Daughter can work from anywhere, but here husband is a field rep based in Denver. I have wished for years he would get a job somewhere else, but my wish- not his.
I was not around much of my kids growing up as my work required extensive travel for extended periods of time. I enjoy the grandkids immensely and appreciate the opportunity to get a "second chance" as a grandparent.
Here are a few pics of what fun is it with the grandkids, they came to visit us in Seattle last month. The older grandson caught his first fish, went on a detailed tour of a UH60 (grateful to the Warrant Officer for doing this), and of course no trip with Grandpa is complete with a trip to a donut shop.
He has no plans on moving to the best of my knowledge. Either does our Daughter, she likes Denver. She is a awesome daughter, but picked Castle Rock on the criteria of the time to a Starbucks and a TJ Maxx.... not kidding.Do you think his employer would transfer him? Where does his parents live?
I would consider buying a gut-rehab bungalow in Colorado. Something which will be easy to sell and is close to adequate medical care facilities.He has no plans on moving to the best of my knowledge. Either does our Daughter, she likes Denver. She is a awesome daughter, but picked Castle Rock on the criteria of the time to a Starbucks and a TJ Maxx.... not kidding.
My Daughter is very good (especially when compared to our two adult Sons). You would always want her on your team at work. Although her college was paid for, she earned straight As, double major and graduated in 3.5 years. I only share this as she chose to work in a Potbelly's sandwich shop while in college, as to not be financially dependent on us.
Our Daughter is a consultant on projects for startup Healthcare organizations. Recently on a contract she was working, the startup asked to renegotiate her hourly rate, that was agreed to in writing. My Daughter said no, so the startup cancelled the contract, which they had the right to do. She could not handle being "fired" and went back and renegotiated the contract. She doesn't need the contract nor the money, she just couldn't handle losing a job because of how she negotiated. My Daughter talked to me about it, my only suggestion was to not ask the startup to reconsider the cancelled contract, but instead to "take a second look", that you made revisions to the contract that may match better. She got the contract back..... Big shots don't like to reconsider anything...... but Big Shots will take a second look if asked, life lesson.....
It's not your parents but your wife's parents and if they were going to spend some $$ to move near you they would want some reasonable assurance that you wouldn't just get a hair up your [blank] and decide to move the family across the country.Reading the suggestions to get the kids/grandkids to move from Denver is a non-starter in my book. Sounds like the husband is invested in a Career in the location they are in and the daughter likes it there. Good for them.
If my parents started getting on me about moving somewhere closer to them, there would be words...
The desired budget, driving miles, etc are all self imposed restraints. If the goal is to be close to the grandkids, one may have to pay to play...
With the respect to the nice people who live there-it's hard to believe Vernal is the city of anybody's dreams....Here is the bottom line. All these places with depressed (cheap) real estate prices are basically marginal to bad areas, in the middle of no where, or the prices wouldn't be depressed. IT'S REALLY THAT SIMPLE.Vernal could be the city of their dreams, or not.
To each his own but your parents are moving to an awesome place if what Hilton Head offers is their thing.My wife's parents are near retiring, still live in NYC but bought a Margaritaville home near Hilton Head, SC.
I'm not sure I'd like that lifestyle myself.
It's not your parents but your wife's parents and if they were going to spend some $$ to move near you they would want some reasonable assurance that you wouldn't just get a hair up your [blank] and decide to move the family across the country.
GON, haha. We have a nearby area with some manufactured homes. They are really nice and are in a nice little neighborhood. You don't own the land but this little community isn't going anywhere. IMO, these places are a bargain for the price.If it was my choice; I would just move a mobile home on Slo-Town's central California estate and squat when he was on one of his out-of-town weekend racetrack endeavors - knowing the authorities would be slow to kick me out.... And after seven years of free squatting, maybe I would be grandfathered into the plot of land the mobile home was on.... I don't know California's squatting laws, if any.
IMO the answer is "kind of". You had millions who discovered they could work from home in just about anywhere combined with the crash in rates. You can save a lot of money working from home and some of it goes a long way on a historically low interest mortgage payment.Did the 2020 spike in prices have anything to do with very low interest rates and trillions pumped into the economy ….. ?
That was my wife trying to hide from me getting a pic of her. That was in Lafayette, INSkyactiv,
Are you sure- we saw a picture of you and someone under the sheets in that Holiday Inn Express......