Hey, anyone remember November, 2004? Really depressing, I know. Like a lot of people my wife and I seriously considered moving to other countries. She has an EU passport so that would have made things simpler.
As it turned out in the summer of 2005 we sold our house in the NoCal Bay Area, relocated for 7 months to the Kansas City area in a corporate apartment, then at my wife’s request relocated to Colorado.
As it turned out, to an extremely wingnut part of Colorado – north of Colorado Springs. Now, my personal plan was to never move again and I approached things in that manner. But we are reconsidering. Our high school-aged kids are complaining that all of their friends are nuts – you know, earth is 6k years old, Obama is a secret muslim, etc. And in terms of benefits, well, the US sucks. College “benefits” have been reduced to loans that benefit the loan shark industry. Health care, while a lot better with ACA, still pales compared to every other first world country that we lived in. And the people here in redneck land are nucking futs.
So, we’ve opened the door to moving again – something I said I’d never do. Personally, I like Hawaii, especially Kauai or Maui. But wife is concerned that this is too isolated (she may be influenced by having two brothers who moved to New Zealand). I have great opportunities to move to Ireland, which I love (including the north), but which has horrible weather and austerian governments. One of my kids is suggesting something close like Boulder. I want some place that will be able to weather the coming climate disaster reasonably well. Another suggestion was Quebec.
Any suggestions anyone? This is not an urgency – maybe 2-3-4 years from now.
