Rinse and repeat until you end up in Albania.
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RustyShackleford@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I feel like in 2025 in SoCal that this post couldn’t be real. Got my home for $600k and a decade later it’s worth $1.6m. Could I be rich simply by moving to Washington?
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I didn’t see OP mention what he paid.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Yeah, moving to lower cost of living will make you relatively rich. It’s a reason people sometimes retire to rural (lower tax-red) areas. However, If you’re still working the usual problem is that the jobs also pay less and “amenities” are also less. Fewer good restaurants, less option for entertainment, worse schools, etc.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Old people without kids in school move to cheap areas and then fight to keep the taxes low so they don’t have to pay for services they don’t want. Nothing worse than being gentrified by the old
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yeah, basically what happened to Florida and a part of why it went from swing state to Red.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
There’s also the problem of living in a dysfunctional conservative shit hole