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Old 07-11-2020, 08:15 PM   #135
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We'll start at the least desirable, Ranks #81 through #86. See the picture table for details. I'll put new rankings up daily as I find time, in groups of five.

Here are examples of the housing you get for your money.

Rank Score City/State House Example

81 54.81 Rochester MN https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...-00233?view=qv
82 50.08 Frisco CO https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...-58654?view=qv
83 34.00 Skagway AK https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...-10786?view=qv
84 22.03 Paris France https://www.realtor.com/internationa...-120055543506/
85 8.37 Laguna Beach CA https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...-14581?view=qv
86 0.00 New York NY https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...-59607?view=qv


Conclusions:

You’ll see that Paris, Laguna Beach, and New York all sink to the bottom for the same reason: a combination of very high cost and very low housing grades. We’d have to add 6 or more years to our working life to afford them, and for the most part they would be very tiny homes of less than 700 sq ft. That’s a hard no.

Skagway is pretty affordable, and it’s in beautiful southeast Alaska, but it gets a ton of snow and we don’t want snow. The housing situation is also pretty so-so and it’s cold in the winter and not warm at all in the summer.

The delightful town of Frisco, Colorado, is better than Skagway in most respects, but still has the same general challenges and it would also be combined with a very small house for our money. Nope.

Rounding out the bottom group is Rochester, MN. It’s a pretty nice house, but not single-story. They get less snow than Denver, but are colder and more humid, and not more affordable once you consider taxes. Moving there wouldn't move toward our goals at all.
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