Places to relocate

So our year here in Austin since relocating is coming to a close. My wife’s contract is up, and she can’t renew for 3 months.

While here we’ve learned that most of her family are grifters and offer us nothing valuable as far as relationships.

My intolerance to humidity has lowered my threshold for heat illness, so I’m essentially trapped in air conditioned environments May - October, which has really stifled our boating and what limited amount of outdoor activities are available here. This has affected my physical health significantly. Before we moved from NV, I was hiking 3-4 days a week 3-6 miles per day. Now, I rarely leave our yard.

We need help identifying some spots where we could move to. My wife’s wants are somewhere it doesn’t get horribly cold (70 degrees is cold to her) and to look out over a body of water. I need less humidity. I can handle Vegas hot because it’s dry, but anything over 35% and 80F and I’m done. I also need quick access to public land for hiking, biking, etc.

I’ve been all over the west, and the only places that might meet both our needs is from the Mendocino coast north to Peugeot Sound. Don’t really want to have to pay California or Oregon income tax, so our choices are limited. I’d like to keep our SA, but it’s not looking favorable.

Anyone have any suggestions on where to look that meets the criteria and has homes under 600k?


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I’d recommend placer county California!!
Minutes away from the best outdoor activities, world class. Hiking, biking, skiing, rivers. Horse trails. Home to the western states run, tevis cup. Many lakes to choose from. Lows are usually in the 50s in the winter with only rain. No snow.
Boating from April-October. Sometimes a little rainy in April and low water levels in October. But it’s doable.
45min from truckee, 1hr or so to Tahoe.
90s in the summer, sometimes streaks of 100 here and there. NO HUMIDITY. Conservative area. If you have kids, del oro school district is the most desirable in California.
Truly the best California has to offer imo.


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Other than the west, you will have humidity.

If you are not used to humidity, it takes awhile to get accustomed, but in all fairness Texas is extreme with heat and humidity.

My recommendations would be Tennessee and south from there. Georgia, Florida, Carolina’s.

I was talking to a good friend who moved to Naples Florida.

If you can handle 40-45 days per year of 90+ and humid, the rest of the year it’s 70-80 and really nice. That’s where I am headed when I retire. Michigan gets 15-20 days of 90’s and humid, it’s the 120 days of below 30’s and snow that I am done with.

Unfortunately, the weather you seek is in costal so cal or Hawaii, 600k will get you a shitshack
at best along with “other” problems.


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Fayetteville, AR
Huntsville, AL
Greenville, SC / Asheville, NC

It does get cold though... pretty hard to check every box on the wish list.

As a Houston resident, definitely got a chuckle regarding humidity in Austin though!

I'm with Larry.

Humidity is taxing on the body but you can work through it, depending on health.
Besides west where water is disappearing, and cost of living is high, South East can be nice. South of the mason-dixion line and winter is typically no snow but can be in the 30's overnight. The lakes are clean and fresh you get hiking trails and plenty of outdoor activity.

However, unless you move to Nasville, Charlotte, etc. and commute to the lake, the lakes are not close to any city life.

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Other than the west, you will have humidity.

If you are not used to humidity, it takes awhile to get accustomed, but in all fairness Texas is extreme with heat and humidity.

My recommendations would be Tennessee and south from there. Georgia, Florida, Carolina’s.

I was talking to a good friend who moved to Naples Florida.

If you can handle 40-45 days per year of 90+ and humid, the rest of the year it’s 70-80 and really nice. That’s where I am headed when I retire. Michigan gets 15-20 days of 90’s and humid, it’s the 120 days of below 30’s and snow that I am done with.

Unfortunately, the weather you seek is in costal so cal or Hawaii, 600k will get you a shitshack
at best along with “other” problems.


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I was going to suggest TN, but like you say. It’s humid. I really like the surrounding areas of Nashville. Franklin, Brentwood, even Spring Hill. Quite nice places. If I leave California that’s where I’ll be. I’ve been pushing that with the big boss since about 2018.
Utah isn’t too bad for the outdoors, but it gets very cold, snow, and very windy. Not too many lakes.
AZ is way too hot. NM is an armpit. WA, OR are no fly zones for me. ID is ok, but again. Lots of snow and cold.
NV, also an armpit. Cold AND hot. Dry. No lakes.
That leaves the rest, humidity states [emoji23]. Or snow. Or both.


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2in, look up boise if you haven't.
you can get a lot that overlooks the boise river if you really like water OR move to nampa out on lake lowell. don't recommend that but some do. if you really want to get out of town, marsing along the snake river is not far from boise.
there's several reservoirs with ample boating 15min from downtown and lucky peak has some GREAT docks that are free for the day. we loved our boating there better than anyplace we have been on the water. city has a green belt walking trail that spans 30 miles. TONS of hiking/biking just outside of town. ski resort 16 miles from downtown with 6 high speed lifts. it's similar in climate to reno-a tad colder in the winter-and snows but it goes away quickly and only a handful of days a year you actually have to drive on it. I have gone many years living there without shoveling a driveway and then one year you might do it a couple times. much more family friendly and lower crime than reno and costwise about the same.
spent 40 years there growing up and it's a very nice place to call home if you're into a family friendly outdoor recreation area. downside is city grew too quickly so traffic is kind of a bear and snow.

oh ya... and although it has income tax, it's not Cali so it's still somewhat reasonable and without all the nanny-state drama that comes along with that state....

I'll add that if you're looking smaller town, you might consider lake havasu arizona. hot as heck, no humidity and a nice reservoir to boat on. town is a mess on the weekends from cali influx but mon-thu it's not bad. all the bigbox stores and still somewhat reasonable housing. 500k should buy a nice house with a boat garage. not 3500sqft but not 1200 either. it would be one of my top5 retirement places.

I spent a lot of time working in Idaho in my yesteryears.
I would not recommend nampa, it is ghetto.
But I get at where 2in is coming from. Eagle and meridian are also outside of boise. But much nicer.


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It does get cold though... pretty hard to check every box on the wish list.

As a Houston resident, definitely got a chuckle regarding humidity in Austin though!

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Yeah, I know. We were in NOLA last weekend, and I was dying everyday. We’ll be visiting a friend in Woodland in a couple of weeks, and though we my take our boat to Conroe, but I ain’t cleaning it until we get back.


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How humid is it in new braunfels? I’m very interested in that area as well.


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2in, look up boise if you haven't.

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I’ve spent a lot of time in the Treasure Valley area so I know the perks and places. My wife enjoyed our quick summer trips to buy our last SA from a family in Meridian. But, she won’t tolerate the cold. I’d rather be in Garden Valley if I had my druthers, or McCall. If I win the lotto, maybe a summer place their, or Priest Lake/Sandpoint area.

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NV, also an armpit. Cold AND hot. Dry. No lakes.

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Hush your mouth!! This Reno boy knows better. Placer Co. would be ok if it weren’t for the people there. Hwy 50 and the Bay Area weekend moron migration ruined Southlake.


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How humid is it in new braunfels? I’m very interested in that area as well.


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Today it was around 30% RH with a high of 102, which feels like 106. Central Texas has been hot and having lower than normal RH. Normal ranges between 35-55 without rain, but once thunder claps all bets are off.


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I’ve spent a lot of time in the Treasure Valley area so I know the perks and places. My wife enjoyed our quick summer trips to buy our last SA from a family in Meridian. But, she won’t tolerate the cold. I’d rather be in Garden Valley if I had my druthers, or McCall. If I win the lotto, maybe a summer place their, or Priest Lake/Sandpoint area.



Hush your mouth!! This Reno boy knows better. Placer Co. would be ok if it weren’t for the people there. Hwy 50 and the Bay Area weekend moron migration ruined Southlake.


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I know reno, unfortunately. I grew up there. Still have a house up in the galena neck of the woods, unfortunately. Reno is one of the armpits of America!!
I’ve been pushing the big boss for a house in south lake, she won’t do it full time though.

My shell station is in auburn off 80, I do that 80 drive 1-2 times a week. Once for work, once for the lake. Because you know, that armpit has no lakes!! Lol.
Our house in auburn is off auburn Folsom, near Folsom lake. Beautiful place my man!! Loomis/Penryn/Newcastle is the idea if we stick around California.


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I’ve spent a lot of time in the Treasure Valley area so I know the perks and places. My wife enjoyed our quick summer trips to buy our last SA from a family in Meridian. But, she won’t tolerate the cold. I’d rather be in Garden Valley if I had my druthers, or McCall. If I win the lotto, maybe a summer place their, or Priest Lake/Sandpoint area.



Hush your mouth!! This Reno boy knows better. Placer Co. would be ok if it weren’t for the people there. Hwy 50 and the Bay Area weekend moron migration ruined Southlake.


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I know reno, unfortunately. I grew up there. Still have a house up in the galena neck of the woods, unfortunately. Reno is one of the armpits of America!!
I’ve been pushing the big boss for a house in south lake, she won’t do it full time though.

My shell station is in auburn off 80, I do that 80 drive 1-2 times a week. Once for work, once for the lake. Because you know, that armpit has no lakes!! Lol.
Our house in auburn is off auburn Folsom, near Folsom lake. Beautiful place my man!! Loomis/Penryn/Newcastle is the idea if we stick around California.


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The humidity sucks here in TN but life is good. Im 15 minutes from 3 different lakes and about 45 minutes from Norris. Home prices are through the roof but 600k would get you nice house. No income tax, mountains, lakes and amazing mt biking. Our lows get to 30s with occasional dips to 20s or teens. But thats a short span for winter here. Other than that the only other place I ever lived was Houston near the woodlands and its the same humidity as TN just base temp is way higher so its way worse.

I might be the only one who likes humidity.

I have spent a lot of time in Utah and dry air sucks, always dry eyes, dry skin and thirsty


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asthmatic here as a kid and took a lot of drugs for it when young including steroids for many years. outgrew it as an adult until I moved to green bay. humidity drove me back into albuterol. as soon as I left and moved to utah and eventually sin city, haven't touched it since.
dry air has it benefits but I do miss the cheaper housing prices of the midwest and closer proximity to water. and frankly, people are MUCH nicer in the midwest vs the southwest.

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I would not recommend nampa, it is ghetto.
But I get at where 2in is coming from. Eagle and meridian are also outside of boise. But much nicer.

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exwife was from nampa and we lived there for a few years while I managed a big box store it's like any city with good and bad places.
his 500k ask sends eagle away and frankly, you will get more bang for the cash in nampa but meridian is definitely a nicer place. built 5 houses there back in the day and lived there for 10 years. very nice community but if you have kids, you need to be of the right religion.

" McCall. If I win the lotto, maybe a summer place their, or Priest Lake"

A friend bought land at McCall and later sold it as there are no builders there. They are down in Boise. The east side of Priest Lake is state land with cabin and homeowners are on a 99 year lease. I'm not sure how many years are left but the state for some years now are getting pressure that the lease rates are too low and to not renew any leases. I moved from Richland Washington in 2020 and it was a great boating area but the water never warms up beyond 72 degrees. It nevers rains from the 4th of July to Labor Day and gets less rain than Phoenix. At 400 feet above sea level, it is in the 100s during the summer and usually gets down in the 20s in the winter. Weather inversion with cloudy days in the winter sucks.

I rescind my recommendation for placer county.

How generous of them to assess my 2013 242 at $103k. Think they’d buy it from me for that? [emoji23]

Also why it has an NV tag on it.
They are off their rocker. $1100 a year in taxes.
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I rescind my recommendation for placer county.

How generous of them to assess my 2013 242 at $103k. Think they’d buy it from me for that? [emoji23]

Also why it has an NV tag on it.
They are off their rocker. $1100 a year in taxes.
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Did you have it stored in a Marina? We found this out when we had a houseboat in Sacramento that the marinas and storage facilities have to report every stored vessel on account , whether it’s on the property or not, to the county for taxation. Your rate is probably because it is registered in NV, and a CA tag might have taken some off that figure, as you pay some portion at registration, which is how they capture other boat owners who store on their own property.


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Originally Posted by rhouse181

Fayetteville, AR
Huntsville, AL
Greenville, SC / Asheville, NC

It does get cold though... pretty hard to check every box on the wish list.

As a Houston resident, definitely got a chuckle regarding humidity in Austin though!

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Right! Me too, Austin, Humid? What???? We must be some tough SOBs

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Yeah, I know. We were in NOLA last weekend, and I was dying everyday. We’ll be visiting a friend in Woodland in a couple of weeks, and though we my take our boat to Conroe, but I ain’t cleaning it until we get back.


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Let me know when and if you end up going to Conroe, we will be there Aug 12-14

It's going to be tough/impossible to hit everything on that punchlist (but you already know that lol)

I'm in TN and don't know anywhere else I'd rather be. Every time I leave I'm happy to come home.
I don't find TN humid honestly, I mean sometimes summer can be rough but nothing like being coastal.
We've got a house on the coast near Charleston SC and comparatively TN may as well be Nevada. Every time we go it takes me a week to reach a point that I don't soak through my shirt walking to the car to go get dinner. I hate it.

I'm not really familiar with Austin's humidity level but I just flew a small plane from El Paso back here to TN and landed in the DFW area for lunch and it was absolutely dangerous outside. Literally worried when getting back in the plane after going to lunch. TN almost never gets that way.

For comparison going from TN to Nola in the summer is a terrible experience for me, I avoid it until fall or spring because of the humid hellhole that it becomes.


All that being said 5 of my 6 neighbors have moved here from CA in the past few years, so don't come :)

I sure wish that millions of others felt Dfw was too dangerous…[emoji1][emoji1787]


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I sure wish that millions of others felt Dfw was too dangerous…[emoji1][emoji1787]


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nah they'd probably all come here :D

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I know what you are jabbing at! And so do I! LOL.

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To actually answer the question I think colorado has just about everything an outdoor person could want in a home. You get all seasons, winter and summer sports, and legal drugs. Has to be an amazing place to call home!


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To actually answer the question I think colorado has just about everything an outdoor person could want in a home. You get all seasons, winter and summer sports, and legal drugs. Has to be an amazing place to call home!


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Isntntheir tax rate thru the roof?

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Isntntheir tax rate thru the roof?

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It might be…I honestly do not know. Our property taxes in Texas are no joke!


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