Thanks everyone. I agree - you just never know how much time you have. Yes, BF he's a Fed (one of 'those' around here
). Unfortunately I believe he's been feeling like it's a 'job' for a while now. He's kinda bored. He used to love it. He still loves engineering, but... work is just not challenging him much these days. And he hates MD.
Hanscomb? I don't know that one. I'm familiar with Pease - unfortunately living in NI puts a lot of things a bit farther away for a reasonable commute
Manchester could be doable, though maybe not on a daily basis. I know Nashua is doable, but it's kinda rough - it's apparently why we moved to Hollis in the first place since my dad worked for Sanders! Is BAE using the old Sanders buildings? I heard that's what Sanders has turned into.
Ok, so those of you who have gotten into consulting (or know people who have).. how do you get your name out there to get consulting work? He's a bit introverted, I'm not sure how good he's going to be at marketing himself, and I see that as the biggest issue. And the only people he knows up there are my family
which won't help it a bit in the job situation.
Yeah, it just doesn't seem like 3K a year (although for maybe 30-40 years.....) is worth sticking in a job/place where you just aren't happy and are only putting in time.
Yes, we do need to sit down and try to figure out an idea of how much we actually spend, and what things would cost (we've still got the land we're paying off.. and if we get the townhouse there's that mortgage and taxes.. and we'll need a building loan... although we can sell our current house at some point.... we've got no other debt at all).
The house will be expensive to build We realize that - although we don't really have a clue yet how much! but, it will be really cheap to maintain, and that will help. Even if we went with oil for heat (which I doubt, but you never know), it can't be that much to heat year round (truly: year round) for only 25 degrees? It just can't be that expensive. So we're not worried about that. Just trying to think of all the incidentals and unexpected stuff. We will still have our health insurance and that will help with the meds (DH takes a handful - I just take a few supplements).
yes, Lisa - I do tend to forget about DW College. Do they have any engineering? not sure. There's got to be something around in the south-westish part of the state!
Thanks for the tourguide offer, Greg; but we can't really afford a lengthy vacation - and I tend to be the tourguide since I grew up there. I've taken him all over, so he's seen a good bit of the state (and our architect lives in Waterville Valley, so we've been up there a couple of times - last time on Christmas Eve!). He's seen it in all seasons, went to MIT for a (fall) semester. But certainly any time I'm up, I'd love to meet up with anyone available!!
I think we're definately leaning towards bugging out early.
that would be so nice.
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That's the problem with working in Mass (aside from paying their income tax 
