I know you are not asking me, so I apologise in advance for
post hogging
But, we have moved quite a bit and will until we find whatever it is we are
looking for ! We have come to enjoy the process and look forward to it
I am trying to live a car-free or car-lite lifestyle so I key places into the BF
and other cycle specific pages, search functions. You get lots of posts so
take some time to read them. Then, I shamelessly bother people through
PM about what they think of thier area. This forum has many, many wonderful
people who are very happy to help. Simultaniously, my wife is checking out jobs
in those areas on the various education job pages of that state.
We narrow our results down and then go to the local newspapers of these towns
and look through them along with the towns web pages. There are sites on the
web that let locals upload videos of thier towns, sort of like Youtube we scan all
of this stuff !! On friday nite, we really get buck wild and brew up some coffee
and hit www.realtor.com and look at properties !!
Wow....I can hardly stand the excitement !!
Finally, we visit the areas in person.
This is the process we used to find our last two places and the one we are going to,
Asheville, NC. ITs very importatn to visit if you can. We were set on SC based on
this process but in person, it was waaaay different than we envisioned. Conversely,
NC was way better than we envisioned.
Best wishes in your upcoming change of life !