Potentially eyeing Chicago if this housing market stays ridiculous 👀
Primary target Seattle area increasingly looking out of reach
Really anti-excited about potentially moving back to snow land 😑
I’m personally pretty flexible and willing to slum it’s almost anywhere, but wife and cats have Lifestyle Expectations
Most people with exciting opinions on location tend to be single. Partners, children, eldercare constraints, and pets add progressively tighter constraints.
You can move anywhere despite these constraints of course, but it takes progressively exponentially increasing cost, complexity, and energy, so in practice everybody rushes to Schelling points that represent a decent band 9f acceptable tradeoffs and drives up costs there
Moving to Austin is currently P though the window is closing. Moving anywhere else is NP. Moving out of the US is PSPACE.
Anywhere seems P if you’re already there, which is why people love suggesting wherever they are. They forget path dependence.
It’s hard for me even to describe the costs, complexity, and energy required of our last few moves, 2 then 3 kids and 2 pets. Sucks up literally a month or more of one adults effort, and several months of money too