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I was going to say Cheyenne, WY, but housing has gotten more expensive since the last time I looked. $350K seems to be the starting point now. Casper, WY would work. It is growing, but still affordable. The Rapid City, SD area along the I-90 corridor to the west is nice also. Housing can still be found in your price range, but it is going up a bit. If you aren't in the core downtown/old neighborhoods crime is pretty minimal, except for a fair amount of property crime. Mostly if you are dumb enough to leave it unlocked and out in the open, it might not be there when you come back. But, outside of town it is pretty much non-existent. When the in-laws passed a couple years ago we had to empty the house and sell it. No will, so it took a long time. The house was unlived in and the garage door was unlocked for more than a year, but no one ever approached the house cameras during that whole time.
I will never again make suggestions to people seeking to move and this is exactly why.
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I thought I was helping. I won't be making suggestions again.
Don't let it get to you. Suggestions that might be dismissed by one poster might be exactly what another poster is looking for.
As for the OP, if you're looking for hippy-ish, start your search in college towns. If you're looking for family-friendly, start your search in the suburbs of medium-sized to major cities. Montana and Wyoming do not have any major cities. Missoula and Laramie, respectively, are good places to start your search. For Colorado, try Boulder for hippy-ish and Castle Rock for family-friendly, though neither is all that cheap.
Do you have kids yet? Before I had kids my ex husband and I moved to a place where we had NO family support at all. It was tough and very depressing at times. I missed my family so think twice before moving really really far away from your wife's family. For me it was a big mistake.
Another thing: since your wife is from Orange County, don't move anywhere that is really cloudy, gloomy and rainy. Trust me on this. I am from Southern California and I hate that kind of weather. I lived in Oregon for my mother for 7 years and got the heck out. Now I'm in Alabama and it's always cloudy and often rainy here.
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Google Military bases. All have barber shops and solons, and most have barbers just outside the gates too. Some bases are in pretty nice areas. Some smaller towns/cities that are more affordable. The larger VA hospitals have a barber shop too, so that's another source of regular barber work you could search on. VA hospitals are not dependent on being near a military base, and each state has at least one hospital, some states several.
Seeing this post, if the OP is looking to move to Upstate NY and Onondaga County/the Syracuse area in particular, Fort Drum Army Base about an hour and 15 minutes away in the Watertown area may be worth a look for barber work.
If the OP wants land they can look in that immediate area. However, it is quite snowy during the winter and would be an adjustment. Happy medium communities would be say Adams and Pulaski. There are a few lakeside state parks with beaches on Lake Ontario nearby, but again, that is in the snow belt just west of Tug Hill. It is very rural and you may even see some Mennonites/Amish in that area, buggy and all. Good area if you like to fish, particularly around Pulaski/Sandy Creek.
So you started with 6 priority states then indicated a shift to two new ones. Are you still considering all 8 states? Or specific ones? What decisions have you made about ranking criteria importance? What new questions do you have?
Huh, that would be great if I had the money to own a home here and in another state.
I’ve been looking more in to Wyoming and Montana are these two states any good? I’m not a political type, I actually am more of a hippy than anything. Would I stand out too much living in a place like this?
No and yes.
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