A Sign

Keep your fingers crossed, we think we've sold our house. For those of you new to my blog, we've had a a plan for some time to sell our home here and look for a new place to live and to set up a larger studio. The day after the folks made the offer on our house Gary went to town to check the mail and he found a pure white feather at the top of the driveway. When he brought the feather in the house I immediately took it as a sign of good fortune.

Despite my post about Faith in Humanity, our yard sale went fairly well and we made a few dollars and minimized some of the items we don't need and don't want to pack or move. Next we are planning on having an indoor estate sale to reduce the amount of furniture we have so we'll have even less to move. We are planning on traveling around to look for a location which better fits our needs. Some criteria important to us are:

a mild climate
low property taxes
reasonable home prices
close to an art community
close to a city, but still rural feeling
art and cultural amenities
stable job market

Some states and countries we're considering are Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, Australia, New Zealand, Vancouver, Canada. Places we've ruled out for various reasons are ones with severe winters and also California, Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. We've read Retirement Places Rated, not that we're ready to retire, but we're close enough and the book has some good information in it. We also look on the World Climate where we can check the average high and low temperature, rainfall, and heating and cooling degree days, by typing in the first three letters of the places we're researching. We look on Craig's List and various house for sale sites dreaming of our new home.

So what do you think? Tell me about where you live, why you like it, and why we should move to your state or country. Go ahead and really try to convince us. I think there's nothing better than hearing the facts direct from a resident. Or if you wish you could move, where would you move?


Meanwhile we're packing and sorting, sorting and packing, and Gary's working on our magic bus. I'll tell you about our current magic bus and a few previous magic buses we've had real soon, so stop by again. And please don't forget to convince us where you think we should move.