New York (not New York City) vs Western Massachusetts vs surrounding areas for a young progressive family
2024.11.25 02:35 revolutionPanda New York (not New York City) vs Western Massachusetts vs surrounding areas for a young progressive family
Hi all. We're looking at relocating the family from Florida to the Northeast. We're a pretty progressive family so the abortion ban, restrictions on marijuana, shitty health insurance, etc... are making us pack up our bags to head somewhere else.
We're taking three households, my family, my parents, and my sister's family. Here's are some points:
- Cost of living/housing: I know not to expect Arkansas prices in the North East, but we're coming from central Florida which is way overpriced for what you get. I expect housing (and maybe heating, I don't know) to be the biggest issues here.
- Job opportunities. I work in tech and my sister is a teacher. Working in tech, I could probably live 60-90 minutes outside of my workplace since I'll be remote or mostly remote and only need to go to the office 2-3 times a week.
- Health care / heath insurance: We have a few chronic illnesses which we have to monitor. I know some states (mostly in the south) are pretty fucked when it comes to this. We want to make sure we can get affordable healthcare.
- Close enough to do stuff on the weekends. We'd like to be able to drive (or take a train) for an hour and be able to do stuff like go shopping, go to events, etc...
- Crime: We'd life somewhere safe.
- Politics: We really don't want to deal with MAGAs which is a large part of why we're leaving FL.
- A bit of space, like a small yard is nice, but not a deal breaker. We'd rather live in a house than an apartment.
- We'd like to not live in bumfuck nowhere. I'd like to be able to stop by a restaurant or grocery store during the day if I need to.
- Night life. We're busy and would only have time to do stuff on the weekends, and we're fine making a day trip out of it.
- Weather and nature. Not an issue since we're mainly homebodies. Only issue would be the costs of heating if that's a big issue.
- Public transportation. We have cars and drive so that's not an issue.
- Schools. They don't need to be the best ever, but would be nice if they're decent just to live around educated people and have lower crime.
We love what we're seeing in MA, but the housing prices are pretty ridiculous. My family is looking at spending around $200k on a two-bed room house. There are a few areas we've seen like outside of Springfield that might be ok. But for the most part, MA housing is a bit too expensive.
But we also looked at some houses in Albany, NY - which we could get a similar housing from anywhere from $50k-$80k. Which looks good, but then again that's "only" about a $650/mo lower difference which considering taxes would be about $10,000 less a year. And if I could that get much of bump by being in MA - or somewhere else - then that point is moot. Also, being a few hours from NYC would be neat when there are events.
I guess the biggest point I'm not clear on is the differences by the state level when it comes to things like healthcare and education. For example, if we decide to like in Albany instead of western MA, do we miss out on anything on the state level?
We've also looked at NJ and CT. NJ looks fine, but not a whole lot of housing in our price range beside Camden and Trenton, which don't sound very nice.
Would love some of your opinions.
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