Hello! Newbie posting for the first time, long time lurker however. Hoping to get some opinions to my question. I don't think an answer exists for now.
Okay, I am looking for a town/city somewhere in the USA. Any suggestions would be helpful. Myself and my partner are about 25 years old in age and about to graduate college.
My main concerns that I want to have in this magical, fantasy city are:
Job opportunities for myself and my partner. I am graduating soon with my degree in video game design and animation. So, I'm focusing on places where they may be a game design studio or two, maybe a place that houses animation or even something with computers. He will be in either the same computer know-how field or in veterinary care. (I know, I know, CALIFORNIA for game programmers
) But, hoping for something with...
Affordable housing. I'm not quite sure what I would consider 'affordable' just yet, but browsing around on some of the salary websites, I could probably take on a mortgage around $350,000 and below possibly; maybe even higher. And by affordable, I was looking at a place that was probably in the area of at least 3 bedrooms, unsure on square feet; maybe 2000? Is that a high number? Anyone have an idea of how large that is? And we were looking at houses, but if condos were all we could get, that'd be okay too.
ALSO, even though it may be odd, but looking at places that are even hardcore red conservative. I don't really like the idea, but I gotta make sacrifices somewhere. Just wanting to, like if we got a place in the suburbs, if it was all we could find, I just don't want the HOA or even our neighbors coming to our door and telling us we need to leave before we spread the disease to their children. We're pretty private people at that; not that we're rude, but both very shy about meeting new people, but would open up and chat with folks once we know them.
And we don't flaunt our lifestyle if you want to call it that; no bar hopping for us. We spend most of our time either at home or out for a small recreational activity like the park or a movie.
He wants small town I suppose? Something rural, away from the city and nature being our neighbor. I would want something maybe about the same, just didn't want to have to have a huge commute time to work with all the concern over gas prices. I wouldn't mind a subrub home or something along the like.
If we can find something along those lines, then I was hoping to move on to personal things, if it can be called that.
We'd like mild weather, not too hto summers, cool winters, snow if it must, but not so much that we absolutely freeze to death and are covered in it. But, if it's all we can get, I'd be fine with it. I've lived in Oklahoma my whole life, so I am used to wild weather. My partner is from Texas and we're both kinda tired of rolling plains.
Something with trees and lakes and mountains would be very nice. Not too keen on the desert, but wouldn't mind it. I have family in New Mexico and I enjoyed it a lot out there and I think I'd like living there.
I've been keeping an eye on Raleigh, North Carolina for a while as well as Reno/Sparks Nevada and Las Vegas. Polar opposites, I know.
But, if any city in the US fits any of this criteria AT ALL
, please help! Much appreciated in advance!
The K
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