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Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work

Atlanta for $ to cost of living/quality. Rural Alabama like Sylacauga (metro/eletric company fiber to your home) for "work from home". Both my wife and I work from home in rural Georgia (Carrollton)...$300k bought us 25 acres, a refurbished 2500 square feet farm house, 6 stall horse barn, 1/2 acre pond, and shop with concrete floor and electricity. There are options out there, lots of them.

chasd00 7y ago
wow that almost exactly describes where i'm headed to next but outside of Dallas. My plan is to lease the stables since I have no livestock and don't desire any. Most of my family are West Texas ranchers and oil hands, i'm the lone computer nerd. I have no desire to work as hard as the ranchers in my family do.
- ramraj07 7y ago
  How far out of Dallas do you need to get 25 acres for 300k?
  - chasd00 7y ago
    well, ok not exactly. I'm not getting 25 acres for 300k but am getting 10 with horse barn/stables, a large "shop", a house+pool the wife loves and a MIL suite for about 650k and 30min Southeast of downtown. It's not a done deal but my mother-in-law will be moving in with me/wife+2kids so we're taking it seriously and will be making an offer soon.
    - toomuchtodo 7y ago
      Congrats on the estate!
- nradov 7y ago
  Texas is the #1 destination for people leaving California. https://m.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/move-california-where-to-go-cheap-states-best-14811246.php https://m.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/move-ca...
jdavis703 7y ago
My dad's side of the family is in Georgia. You couldn't pay me $300k to deal with the racism in rural Georgia. Yes not all people out there are bad, but there's enough I'd rather line elsewhere.
- zionic 7y ago
  Are sweeping generalizations of almost 11 million people the kind of comment we want to encourage on HN?
  - linuxuser001 7y ago
    Yeah we should keep it a secret how racist America is.
    - nec4b 7y ago
      Could you please link to some data or at least share you personal experience of how racist America is today?
      - linuxuser001 7y ago
        You can do it yourself I guess whites are the lazy ones.
        nec4b 7y ago
        I see that you are not a stranger to racism your self. Calling a billion people lazy because because of their skin color is really classy.
      - linuxuser001 7y ago
        Personal? I guess, I'm Central American, and just because of how I look I get followed at the mall and every 2 minutes I get asked "is everything okay sir?" Obviously they think I'm there to steal something. In Denver I went to a restaurant I overheard "why do I have to serve that spic". So okay no racism in America right? You idiot.
starpilot 7y ago
Las Vegas for great rock climbing and growing Californication.
BoorishBears 7y ago
My first thought about Rural Alabama is how much I'd hate that sociopolitical environment (I'm black) Granted I googled Sylacauga and the first line on their website is >Sylacauga (syl-a-cau-ga) is a progressive community where all the pieces fit. So they're aware of the image which is a pretty good sign... But I'm not doing these cities/towns that are "progressive" oases in vast deserts of backwards communities ever again. At the end of the day, the people in backwards communities are still numerous. They still end up dominating state-level politics. Instead of embracing change and the wealth that not being a backwards backwater can bring, they actively fight it and if anything become more emboldened in trying to band together against the "common enemy"... that is progressive people (read: non-white, non-straight and/or non-Christian). In a more ideal world, the answer to these people would be exactly what Sylacauga seems to be, forcing them to co-exist with people who are in the 21st century, but I now feel like the answer is to let these areas wear themselves down. When the pie of wealth grows and these people are locked out for their views, they'll eventually lose the power they had.
- Mountain_Skies 7y ago
  Much of rural Alabama, especially through the central and southwestern parts of the state are majority black with most local governments and social institutions dominated by the local majority population. The real big problems in those areas are poverty and medical care. Even if you're well off, living in an impoverished community does negatively impact your quality of life. And you really don't want to have a medical emergency out there. The medical facilities can be few and far between with middling quality.
- pm90 7y ago
  I somewhat relate to your view as a non-white POC. However, I don't think > they'll eventually lose the power they had. would do much to change the situation. Georgia, Virginia and Texas are states that are being fundamentally changed because of the influx of progressives from both rural areas and urban coasts. The fastest way to change seems to be to move to these places and use the democratic process to introduce real changes, and these folks will have no choice but to change their views or retreat to more rural areas of their states (usually its the latter). The other aspect is that a lot of the southern states do actually have sizeable populations of African Americans...I really do hope that we don't just ignore them as successive generations seem to have done....
sb057 7y ago
One downside as a lifelong resident of the South: rather hot. A monthly record high of 103 F (39.44 C) was set last month (October) in Alabama.
- pm90 7y ago
  This happens mostly during the summers and you have air conditioning everywhere... This is why so many folks move to Texas despite the horrific summers.
lotsofpulp 7y ago
No laws against non compete, parental leave, sick leave, fewer protections for laborers overall are a dealbreaker for me in the quality of life aspect.

chasd00 7y ago

wow that almost exactly describes where i'm headed to next but outside of Dallas. My plan is to lease the stables since I have no livestock and don't desire any. Most of my family are West Texas ranchers and oil hands, i'm the lone computer nerd. I have no desire to work as hard as the ranchers in my family do.

ramraj07 7y ago
How far out of Dallas do you need to get 25 acres for 300k?
- chasd00 7y ago
  well, ok not exactly. I'm not getting 25 acres for 300k but am getting 10 with horse barn/stables, a large "shop", a house+pool the wife loves and a MIL suite for about 650k and 30min Southeast of downtown. It's not a done deal but my mother-in-law will be moving in with me/wife+2kids so we're taking it seriously and will be making an offer soon.
  - toomuchtodo 7y ago
    Congrats on the estate!
nradov 7y ago
Texas is the #1 destination for people leaving California. https://m.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/move-california-where-to-go-cheap-states-best-14811246.php https://m.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/move-ca...

jdavis703 7y ago

My dad's side of the family is in Georgia. You couldn't pay me $300k to deal with the racism in rural Georgia. Yes not all people out there are bad, but there's enough I'd rather line elsewhere.

zionic 7y ago
Are sweeping generalizations of almost 11 million people the kind of comment we want to encourage on HN?
- linuxuser001 7y ago
  Yeah we should keep it a secret how racist America is.
  - nec4b 7y ago
    Could you please link to some data or at least share you personal experience of how racist America is today?
    - linuxuser001 7y ago
      You can do it yourself I guess whites are the lazy ones.
      - nec4b 7y ago
        I see that you are not a stranger to racism your self. Calling a billion people lazy because because of their skin color is really classy.
    - linuxuser001 7y ago
      Personal? I guess, I'm Central American, and just because of how I look I get followed at the mall and every 2 minutes I get asked "is everything okay sir?" Obviously they think I'm there to steal something. In Denver I went to a restaurant I overheard "why do I have to serve that spic". So okay no racism in America right? You idiot.

starpilot 7y ago

Las Vegas for great rock climbing and growing Californication.

BoorishBears 7y ago

My first thought about Rural Alabama is how much I'd hate that sociopolitical environment (I'm black) Granted I googled Sylacauga and the first line on their website is >Sylacauga (syl-a-cau-ga) is a progressive community where all the pieces fit. So they're aware of the image which is a pretty good sign... But I'm not doing these cities/towns that are "progressive" oases in vast deserts of backwards communities ever again. At the end of the day, the people in backwards communities are still numerous. They still end up dominating state-level politics. Instead of embracing change and the wealth that not being a backwards backwater can bring, they actively fight it and if anything become more emboldened in trying to band together against the "common enemy"... that is progressive people (read: non-white, non-straight and/or non-Christian). In a more ideal world, the answer to these people would be exactly what Sylacauga seems to be, forcing them to co-exist with people who are in the 21st century, but I now feel like the answer is to let these areas wear themselves down. When the pie of wealth grows and these people are locked out for their views, they'll eventually lose the power they had.

Mountain_Skies 7y ago
Much of rural Alabama, especially through the central and southwestern parts of the state are majority black with most local governments and social institutions dominated by the local majority population. The real big problems in those areas are poverty and medical care. Even if you're well off, living in an impoverished community does negatively impact your quality of life. And you really don't want to have a medical emergency out there. The medical facilities can be few and far between with middling quality.
pm90 7y ago
I somewhat relate to your view as a non-white POC. However, I don't think > they'll eventually lose the power they had. would do much to change the situation. Georgia, Virginia and Texas are states that are being fundamentally changed because of the influx of progressives from both rural areas and urban coasts. The fastest way to change seems to be to move to these places and use the democratic process to introduce real changes, and these folks will have no choice but to change their views or retreat to more rural areas of their states (usually its the latter). The other aspect is that a lot of the southern states do actually have sizeable populations of African Americans...I really do hope that we don't just ignore them as successive generations seem to have done....

sb057 7y ago

One downside as a lifelong resident of the South: rather hot. A monthly record high of 103 F (39.44 C) was set last month (October) in Alabama.

pm90 7y ago
This happens mostly during the summers and you have air conditioning everywhere... This is why so many folks move to Texas despite the horrific summers.

lotsofpulp 7y ago

No laws against non compete, parental leave, sick leave, fewer protections for laborers overall are a dealbreaker for me in the quality of life aspect.