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All these are so helpful, as per it’s difficult to walk away from salary.
As far as other places, we have been looking extensively for years. I prefer Parker CO or similar in CO, my wife wants the nice house that comes with a move Cary NC.
Plymouth MN still in play.
I can find a job in a week in any place at anytime, but at a much lower salary.
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yeah, I like that!
My oldest daughter is a freshman college runner in CO, and she is loving it!! She tells me all the time, that running is a different sport minus the oppressive humidity. She is very excited about the snow tomorrow
I would prefer CO, but my wife is into houses, and 550k house in CO, is much different than a 550k house in NC.
I could live in an old shack, I dont care, but my wife sure does
What is it that you like about Parker? Denver is expensive, but Colorado Springs and Northern Colorado are cheaper. If you don't mind living in a more rural area, check out Berthoud, Franktown, Elizabeth, Elbert, Calhan, or Peyton. I'll also throw out Grand Junction again. It has more of a Utah/desert feel, but it's considerably cheaper than most of the Front Range.
If you want to live closer to (or in) the mountains, look into Cañon City, Buena Vista, or Salida.
What are thoughts on this board, I am looking at cutting my pay from 185-200 K, to 115k, to leave SW FL.
We hate humidity, we are runners and like to hike and snow ski.
I am 50 years old and could tough it out for 5-6 more years and pay off mortgage. But we hate it here so much. Its hot and humid year round. Some people like that, particularly less active folks.
So with this move i will be physically and mentally healthier, but financially much less healthy.
I know.. It's already only 30 degrees today in Denver at 1 p.m. Sunday the high is 23 and Monday it's 19.
And it'll be in the 60s tomorrow then again by next Friday. I'm more active during the winter here than I was anytime during the year when we lived in DFW. I would much rather deal with one of our winters (which are highly variable) than one of DFW's unrelentingly hot and humid summers. That, and, let's face it, the Metroplex isn't exactly an outdoor mecca or a picture of scenic beauty.
I strongly considered SLC for obvious reason. It has everything!
2 things tho
The houses seem insanely expensive for what u get. Seems this has happened in last few years, but i guess that has happened many places
Secondly, I was advised it might be a weird place to raise my 8 year old, who is not LDS.
I strongly considered SLC for obvious reason. It has everything!
2 things tho
The houses seem insanely expensive for what u get. Seems this has happened in last few years, but i guess that has happened many places
Secondly, I was advised it might be a weird place to raise my 8 year old, who is not LDS.
You were probably given that advise by people who really don't know what they're talking about. As long as you stay within Salt Lake County, your son would be FINE. Mormons account for 49% of the 1.1 million residents in Salt Lake County. That means slightly over half of the residents of the county are not LDS. Of the 1.1 million LDS people in Salt Lake County, I would say that only about 60% are practicing. Now you've got more than 70% of the people you'd be living around and working with and that your child would be going to school with who are either non-LDS or non-practicing LDS. (Now if you were to be considering Utah county, I would not recommend you make the move.)
I am a 72-year-old LDS woman who has always lived in Salt Lake City. I grew up in the 1950s and 1960's. During most of my childhood and teenage years, I hung out with roughly a dozen other girls. I'd say probably 2/3 of us were LDS. The other 1/3 was not. It didn't matter one single solitary bit to us, and it didn't matter to our parents either. I raised my two kids in the 1980s and 1990s. (Yeah, imagine that -- a Mormon family with just two kids! ). One was a boy and the other a girl. Both of them had friends that were LDS and non-LDS.
Today, and for the last 38 years, I've lived in Cottonwood Heights, which is a suburb of Salt Lake City with a population of about 34,000. 61% of the residents here are LDS, but again, not all are practicing. There are 12 households on my street. Of those, four are active LDS; eight are not. There are Latinos, Middle-easterners and Asians within those twelve households. The ages of the homeowners range from their 20s to their 90s. That is a fairly diverse group of people, in my opinion.
If you love hiking and winter sports, oh my gosh! There isn't another city in the country that can match Salt Lake. And the five national parks in southern Utah... Have you visited them? They are positively amazing! I can't speak to the real estate market, but I do know it's considered pretty expensive. Still, you owe it to yourself to strongly consider Salt Lake.
I have several non-Mormon ski friends who moved to Salt Lake City. They all really like the place. My mom wintered in Park City in a residential area outside town with the big Mormon families. The people were plenty nice but you weren’t part of the community.
Transplants are depressed because they're getting paid half of what they were doing in their native state. You have it all on a stick and want to leave because the humidity is annoying. Life is so funny. I don't know anybody who would willingly give up an almost 200k salary in the state of FL (extremely rare) in Sarasota (a paradise) for a 70k paycut to live elsewhere. Absolutely mind-boggling. Good luck.
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). One was a boy and the other a girl. Both of them had friends that were LDS and non-LDS. 
