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Looking for suggestions for a place to move in the US as a remote employee (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So the work I do is 100% remote now. I moved to Southern California because of an industry that has in part moved to remote work. My only requirements are a temperate climate, nature access and hopefully a blue-ish state. Is there a place out there that makes sense financially? I’m hoping to buy a house less then 500k. I don’t need access to large cities as I honestly don’t do anything. The only requirement I can think of is access to solid internet as I stream full screen video for what I do.

I’m currently looking at Michigan and Virginia as options.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't recommend Kentucky enough. It ain't blue, but it meets your other criteria. House prices are very reasonable. We live just outside Fort Knox and when the Army is done with my wife we're moving back

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wha... what exactly are they doing to her??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I laughed.

They're working her too hard and paint her too little. In seven years she'll be at 30 years and it will be time to be done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you like about it so much? I’ve never lived in a place I wanted to live in. All my choices have been because of family or career. I really just don’t want be be too hot (Southern California here) or have to carry inflated prices because I live near ‘all this cool shit’ that I couldn’t care less about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful.

From where we live a bunch of interesting places are within an easy drive. Nashville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati are all three hours or less away.

The people are mostly kind and mostly polite.

The cost of living is relatively low.

The pace of life feels slower.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I second Kentucky. Wife is from there, and we are looking to move back there somewhere around Lexington or Louisville because it is extremely affordable and still a nice city.