i know this has been asked before but i am asking again
as you can see from my sig i don't have any kids yet the first is due in October so we have a while before we will really be home schoolers But my husband and i know that we want to eventually buy land and build our own home and that while we love California we may not be able to afford to buy land here or at least not in the parts we would want to live in (there are parts we can afford but i might have relatives there who we want to stay far far away from). we plan to move in the next 2 or 3 years and rent near where we would by land just so we can see what different climates are like and what people are like in different places and so we can be sure it is a place we would want to live permanently. we are open to moving to other countries but really it doesn't seem very practical. so Oregon keeps popping up as a place we could move because it would not be to far away and because climate would not be to different so does Washington for the same reasons. from what i have read Oregon requires testing and i am pretty against testing but not so against it i wouldn't move to a state that required it but i sure hate the thought of it. we have also talked about Vermont, Idaho and Montana though since neither of us has ever lived anyplace with snow i wonder how we would adjust.
what are the best states and why?
edited to add that i keep day dreaming of moving to Cortes island which is a tiny island in bc but i am uncertain if we would be able to move to Canada and i have never been there in winter. out of all the places i have been it was the most beautiful and felt the safest with the kindest people.
as you can see from my sig i don't have any kids yet the first is due in October so we have a while before we will really be home schoolers But my husband and i know that we want to eventually buy land and build our own home and that while we love California we may not be able to afford to buy land here or at least not in the parts we would want to live in (there are parts we can afford but i might have relatives there who we want to stay far far away from). we plan to move in the next 2 or 3 years and rent near where we would by land just so we can see what different climates are like and what people are like in different places and so we can be sure it is a place we would want to live permanently. we are open to moving to other countries but really it doesn't seem very practical. so Oregon keeps popping up as a place we could move because it would not be to far away and because climate would not be to different so does Washington for the same reasons. from what i have read Oregon requires testing and i am pretty against testing but not so against it i wouldn't move to a state that required it but i sure hate the thought of it. we have also talked about Vermont, Idaho and Montana though since neither of us has ever lived anyplace with snow i wonder how we would adjust.
what are the best states and why?
edited to add that i keep day dreaming of moving to Cortes island which is a tiny island in bc but i am uncertain if we would be able to move to Canada and i have never been there in winter. out of all the places i have been it was the most beautiful and felt the safest with the kindest people.
