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I have searched and searched and have not found an exact answer so firstly, I apologize if I missed the answer somewhere in the forums! Secondly, thank you for any help you can offer!
My husband and I currently live in Boulder, Colorado. We are looking for the right town to settle in and buy a house and unfortunately Boulder pricing will not work for us. We have been hunting (visiting) various towns for the past two years and have yet to find a good match. Outside of the Boulder area where we live, Steamboat Springs, CO has been the place we love most. Steamboat is a place we love, but the weather[SO much snow] + Remote location[3.5 hours to airport] + Pricing[similar to Boulder] won't work for us long-term.
If there is a place in Canada that fits the bill, please let me know!
Here are the MOST important things to us:
-Climate (we need sunny days & are not a fan of really gray winters)
-Amenities (we love small towns, but would like a place that has a restaurant scene outside of chain restaurants & coffee shops, etc.)
-We can deal with a remote place, but everything else (weather, pricing, amenities, etc.) would have to be on point.
-Pricing (we would like to be able to buy a 3 bedroom/ 2 bathroom/2 car garage house that is updated for under $500k).
-We really love mountains and it would be difficult for us to live in a place with a flat landscape.
-I am a teacher so I can work anywhere and my husband works remotely as a computer engineer so the job market is not an issue.
-We want a town that has unique, locally owned restaurants. If chain restaurants are the main source of dining, then we are most likely not interested in the area. We really do not want to live in Suburbia, so places like Louisville/Lafayette/Longmont/Broomfield/Arvada/Westminster will NOT work for us. I know that there are pockets of quaint/ local restaurants in these places, but these towns are mostly composed of cookie-cutter neighborhoods and that is a big turn off for us.
-A neutral religious/political scene. We are not active in either of those areas and would rather everyone go about doing their own thing without pressure from one end or the other.
-A walkable downtown is an added bonus!
We have visited the following towns and they were not right for us for one reason or another: Asheville,NC / Austin, TX / Bend, OR / Ashland, OR / Eugene, OR / Corvallis, OR / Portland, OR / Seattle, WA / Logan, UT / Flagstaff, AZ / Missoula, MT / Bozeman, MT / San Francisco, CA / San Diego, CA / Coeur d' Alene, ID/ Pretty much every town in Colorado
Again, I in no way want to offend anyone with my opinions. I would just REALLY appreciate the help & ideas!
You can find a a job anywhere as a teacher? Around here that wouldn't be true, teaching jobs are highly competitive and next to impossible to get. That said, maybe Nelson, BC if you could swing it.
The post made me think of these lyrics from that song from the Rolling Stones.
"You can't always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need"
OP, I don't believe there is any place in Canada that would be suitable enough for you (not even Nelson) and just about everything would be too expensive for you.
I've seen several of your other posts, seen what you say you want and seen the reasons you've given for why so many other places you've investigated were not good enough for you. Based on the reasons you've given for why all those other places weren't suitable, (and I personally think some of those reasons were minor, a bit spoiled and unreasonable) I believe there is nothing in Canada that would make you happy and that you wouldn't find fault with.
I'd like to suggest that you lower your expectations somewhat and instead of making a list and looking for what you want perhaps you could try making a list of what you actually need and go from there.
I don't think you will find what you want anywhere but if you try to be more practical, lower your sights a bit, you could find you get what you need.
Like most of the other posters (from Canada) I don't think emigration to Canada will be that easy for you. They can afford to be choosy. But goodness, there are tons of places in the US you could consider.
Here's an off the wall suggestion: the hill country of Texas is full of great scenery, rolling hills, and many small towns that might fit the bill.
Like most of the other posters (from Canada) I don't think emigration to Canada will be that easy for you. They can afford to be choosy. But goodness, there are tons of places in the US you could consider.
Here's an off the wall suggestion: the hill country of Texas is full of great scenery, rolling hills, and many small towns that might fit the bill.
Not a bad suggestion, if Texas hill country is too hot for you, higher elevation NM
might work, like Santa Fe, Ruidoso, Cloudcroft, and Taos.
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