Elysian
SCAATSJW
Who here lives in Ohio?
My wife and I have been looking to move out of Texas for a while now, and she's actively been looking for software development jobs outside of Texas or remote for the last 13 months (to no avail unfortunately), but we started looking at our situation and researching where we could move and northeast Ohio is where we've settled on, particularly Youngstown area (where Titanium_ used to live, I've already talked to him about it).
The reason for that is based on our current homes' value. We owe around $200k on it, but could sell it tomorrow for $500k, and use much of that money to pay for a house in northeaster Ohio in full, live mortgage free for the rest of our lives.
So anyone in Ohio have any input? Cost of living looks to be lower than Austin, there's also plenty of jobs in my field (CAD/CAM, 3d modeling, and drafting), as well as many software developer jobs my wife could apply for. Just seems like a great fit. We could clear close to $300k in profit on our house, buy a home there for $200k or less, and put the rest aside to cover taxes on it as well as a large rainy day fund. Am I crazy? Maybe, but the idea of lowering our expenses and living mortgage free seems very good to me.
I've already discussed with my boss, and written up the job description for my replacement, so it's getting serious
My wife and I have been looking to move out of Texas for a while now, and she's actively been looking for software development jobs outside of Texas or remote for the last 13 months (to no avail unfortunately), but we started looking at our situation and researching where we could move and northeast Ohio is where we've settled on, particularly Youngstown area (where Titanium_ used to live, I've already talked to him about it).
The reason for that is based on our current homes' value. We owe around $200k on it, but could sell it tomorrow for $500k, and use much of that money to pay for a house in northeaster Ohio in full, live mortgage free for the rest of our lives.
So anyone in Ohio have any input? Cost of living looks to be lower than Austin, there's also plenty of jobs in my field (CAD/CAM, 3d modeling, and drafting), as well as many software developer jobs my wife could apply for. Just seems like a great fit. We could clear close to $300k in profit on our house, buy a home there for $200k or less, and put the rest aside to cover taxes on it as well as a large rainy day fund. Am I crazy? Maybe, but the idea of lowering our expenses and living mortgage free seems very good to me.
I've already discussed with my boss, and written up the job description for my replacement, so it's getting serious