{"id":665,"date":"2008-02-01T14:25:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/out-of-california\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T20:09:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T04:09:36","slug":"out-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/out-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of California"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a friend who was considering moving out of California.<\/p>\n

It made me think if I would ever move out of California one day.<\/p>\n

To uproot from one’s home state of over 40 years, there’s got to be a darn good reason. I can’t imagine moving just for the sake of a change.<\/p>\n

If there is no job reason, no family reason, and no climate reason to move, are there other reasons one would want to start afresh in a new neighborhood?<\/p>\n

Cheaper housing could be a good reason. Many like to retire in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas real estate<\/a> market has dropped only about 2%. The median price of a condo is about $195,000. That’s affordable.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I would ever consider moving far across the country. That would be too drastic a change. For example, the Georgia real estate<\/a> market looks about the same as California. A new home of 2,000 sqft in a golf community goes for about $400,000 in Savannah. There’s no advantage there.<\/p>\n

My brother-in-law lives in Houston. I don’t know how the Houston real estate<\/a> market is doing, but he doesn’t want to move to California because the housing prices are too high for him.<\/p>\n

I had a client who bought a house in Arizona 10 years ago with the intention of moving there to retire. A couple of years ago, I sold their house here in Rowland Heights and they moved to Arizona. I asked why they chose that small town in Arizona. Do you know people there? No – No family, no friends, no prior connections. They’ve vacationed there and decided they liked the environment of open space.<\/p>\n

That’s rather courageous.<\/p>\n

I think as I get older, it is less likely that I would want to make any drastic moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking to a friend who was considering moving out of California. It made me think if I would ever move out of California one day. To uproot from one’s home state of over 40 years, there’s got to be a darn good reason. I can’t imagine moving just for the sake of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}