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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps upstate NY truly is cheaper, but be careful about assuming YOUR costs will be cheaper.  I come from a western state that ostensibly is cheaper, but when I look at houses (neighborhoods) I would want to live in, the home cost is the same as here.  Restaurants (decent, nothing fancy) are more expensive.  Property taxes are less.  Etc.  We will probably retire out there, but not counting on it being cheaper.

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Very valid point.  I romanticized about moving out west, to Bozeman, MT, and when I looked at real estate prices, I realized it's really not that much cheaper.  But where I'm from in upstate NY, I could get a nice house in a great school district for less than $200,000.  I know that plenty of places are more expensive, but....200k!  That's a downpayment around here.

There is also something to be said about a slower pace of life and not dealing with all of the BS that comes with our super Type A community in DC.  I don't know if I can put a price on that.[/quote]

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