Thoughts on Moving Or How I'm Going to Buy House

We're moving November 1st. We put in for a transfer with my husbands company. We asked for this. We'll be making the same amount and moving farther away from family. Why would we do this you ask? Cost of living my friends. It's ridiculous out here. Recently advertised on signs leading into our neighborhood: "15oo sqft townhomes from the High 400's" "1700 sqft homes from the Low 600's." Those are brand new, but used aren't much different. $488,000 for a 1400 sqft 4 bedroom 2 bath 13 year old home with absolutley NO YARD! These are considered starter homes up here. Well actually, condos are considered started homes. Sorry, I just don't want to buy an apartment. Call me crazy.

So were moving. We're moving to the Denver CO area. Everyone we talk to from there keeps asking us "why are you moving here?" We respond with "so we can buy a house and stop wasting our money and actually have a backyard." And they proceed to tell us how over priced Denver is. People. Please, we've done our research. I can tell you that your town is not overpriced compared to where we live. We wouldn't be moving without being sure we're not just moving to another market we can't make it in. Any city that you can get at 5 year old 1700 sqft 3 bed 2 bath on a 1/4 acre for under 250 is not overpriced. Of course that is like 20 miles out of the city in the suburbs, and apparently that's living pretty far out in Denver (we live 18 from the city right now, and considered going another 6!) Don't worry about us, we'll be fine.

I have to just put in a plug for the church here. I am so grateful for the LDS church. The fact that we are moving 1300 miles, and not going to be living within 12 hours of either of our families, and I'm not worried about being alone, or not having friends really says a lot for our church and culture. My brother and sister-in-law are considering moving too. They aren't active in the church, and her biggest concern is how am I going to meet people? I am just so grateful that this isn't the case for me. I don't take a long time to make friends by any means, but just the fact that I will have "assigned friends" from the visiting teaching program is comforting to me.

On a completely different note. Googie just did the cutest thing. The baby started crying in the bedroom and she said "ee sad" and then grabbed my hand and the baby's binky then pulled me to the bedroom. She is such a concerned big sister.