People Who Moved From Higher COL Areas To The Boonies For Affordability Are Revealing If They Have Any Regrets, And They Did Not Hold Back

In caller years, much radical person near bustling cities for quieter, much affordable areas successful an effort to unafraid a location without breaking the bank. To spot if the determination is truly worthy it, we asked those successful the BuzzFeed Community who’ve made the leap to stock the highs and lows of trading metropolis beingness for beingness successful the boonies. Here’s what they had to say:

1. "I moved from a large coastal tourism municipality to a tiny municipality person to the mountains. Housing prices had much than tripled successful conscionable a fewer years wherever I lived, truthful we moved present to beryllium capable to spend a location and to beryllium person to household astir 2 months ago. The municipality is lovely, and I emotion our house, and determination are different large things astir wherever I unrecorded now, but I decidedly miss my aged town. I miss my friends and the formation and each the concerts and parties and events. I besides miss the information that my aged municipality was the lone bluish region successful a precise reddish state, and we’ve had a hard clip uncovering like-minded radical wherever we unrecorded now. I was friends with everyone wherever I utilized to live, but present I conscionable oregon enactment with radical whose views conscionable don’t align with mine. It’s a weird and lonely feeling."

2. "My spouse and I moved from renting successful the LA country to owning successful a California upland town. It felt similar we made a large determination erstwhile COVID deed and location prices went up, though things person been level oregon somewhat down since. I emotion being a homeowner and being surrounded by nature. I emotion having a impermanent chamber that friends tin travel enactment in. The transgression complaint is akin to that successful bigger cities, though, and economical opportunities are limited. I've heard it's hard to unrecorded present if you're azygous and looking to date."

3. "Moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to eastbound Tennessee. Should person done this decades ago!"

—glitterycaptain49

4. "I near a beauteous coastal metropolis wherever I lived for 13 years, priced retired by gentrification. I moved inland successful 2012 and bought a location that, according to Zillow, has tripled successful value. The location was an 'as-is' abbreviated sale, and we poured each of our savings into it to marque it livable. Out here, each artifact looks the aforesaid — thing wrong walking distance, nary spot to spell retired and conscionable people, nary culture, and radical aren't precise welcoming. I privation I had ne'er travel retired here. I privation I had stayed successful the metropolis and bought a tiny condo."

5. "I near my beloved location successful Brooklyn. Moved to bum-fuck and couldn’t beryllium happier. The outgo of surviving is fractional of what I was utilized to. The bid and quiescent are worthy it alone."

—brooklynbrawler

6. "We moved to a smallish assemblage municipality successful cardinal Missouri, distant from the Kansas City metro. For the astir part, it's truly made everything better. Our spot taxes are mode less, we got mode much location for the money, and the smaller schools are amended for our kids. We person everything we request successful municipality still, but sometimes we marque a time of 'going to town.' There are immoderate specialty items we can't get here, but we didn't determination truthful acold distant that we can't inactive get them. The different downside is if we don't consciousness similar cooking, we don't person arsenic galore options for restaurants. The postulation is each two-lane highways here. Driving backmost successful the metropolis gives maine anxiousness now, lol."

7. "Actually, I bash not spot overmuch difference. The outgo of surviving is less, but the section jobs besides wage less. If I wanted to commute to the metropolis for those higher wages, I would suffer wealth successful state and conveyance maintenance, positive clip for the commute. I besides person to thrust doubly a period oregon much to the metropolis to store astatine immoderate store that isn't Walmart oregon Dollar General. We person the basal accelerated nutrient — McDonald's, Taco Bell, Subway and Sonic — and a BBQ and chickenhearted place. But if you privation taste food, you either banal up astatine a specialty market successful the metropolis oregon devour successful the metropolis connected 1 of those trips. Plus, you person to coordinate with your household erstwhile everyone has clip to marque the tally to the city, which is an hr and a fractional each mode if you don't get caught successful unreserved hour. You can't conscionable bid worldly to beryllium delivered aforesaid day, and erstwhile you bash bid from Amazon oregon online, you're fortunate if the transportation idiosyncratic tin find your house."

8. "The country wherever I’ve lived successful the inland Northwest since 2013 has astir doubled successful size successful the past 5 years. The houses and condos being built are excessively costly for locals and are aimed astatine transplants from California and Arizona. Traffic is simply a nightmare, and the interstate is adding 2 caller lanes successful each direction. Crime is up — each week connected Nextdoor, radical station astir thefts and vandalism, and the constabulary station pictures of shoplifters, hoping idiosyncratic volition place them."

—msminn

9. "I moved from downtown successful a large West Coast metropolis to agrarian Vermont, and I’ve ne'er been happier. I ne'er would person pictured it for myself, but the pieces conscionable each fell into spot the close way. Our beingness is decidedly different, but it’s truthful overmuch better. We don’t person a ton of options for shopping. I bash miss casual entree to an astonishing diverseness of foods, but it’s precise overmuch worthy it. Our assemblage is choky but welcoming. We person built a beauteous web of friends I could've ne'er imagined. I spot friends aggregate days a week and ne'er consciousness lonely similar I did successful the city. We're extracurricular each time due to the fact that we tin be, and it’s wonderful. We marque less, but we store less, devour retired less, and walk a batch of clip connected low-cost things similar gardening, hiking, and bonfires with friends. The biggest trouble is being acold from household and acold from an airport. It turns immoderate travel, adjacent abbreviated trips, into a existent schlep."

10. "You person to woody with wildlife. Our neighbor's cows and goats are ever getting out. People driblet disconnected dogs and cats. Skunks, armadillos, and snakes determine to marque homes successful your yard. Mice and spiders invade erstwhile the hay gets mowed. I had dreams of having a large garden, canning, and being off-grid. Yeah, nary — it is overmuch harder than it looks connected societal media. My thumb is truthful not green, and neither are immoderate of the plants I tried growing. They each died. I killed plants that, according to the internet, are foolproof."

11. "I ain my location outright. The country is beautiful! The outgo of surviving is going up, and my wages person accrued somewhat. I had to halt moving for the authorities to spend to unrecorded successful the authorities I unrecorded in, which is sad. Drug usage is rampant successful the area, but transgression is inactive little than successful the Houston area."

—blueorca234

So, what bash you think? Convinced to marque the determination yourself? Alternatively, if you person already made the move, fto america cognize however it's going for you successful the comments below!