Late 2020, my mom had 14 pods (the size of a medium-sized shed) completely full of stuff from the consolidation of her stuff, her late parents, her late ex-in-l

Late 2020, my mom had 14 pods (the size of a medium-sized shed) completely full of stuff from the consolidation of her stuff, her late parents, her late ex-in-laws, and some of mine when moving from Paradise CA (where the cost of insurance more than tripled, taxes were on the rise, cost-of-living increased, area looked like an awful moonscape due to predatory resource extraction (trees) without homeowners' consent, and the numerous idiots, crazy people, angry/aggressive/antisocial Trump supporters, paucity of decent neighbors or any humans, power outages for a week or more, fires and smoke, uncertain future rainfall and drinking water supplies, and she was partially-disabled in basically the middle of nowhere with deer and bear) to near San Marcos TX (I'm in ATX). Since it was the pandemic, I took her on a roadtrip in a reasonably-priced rental SUV with unlimited mileage. California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and the Texas. Somehow, the movers managed to cram all of that into her new tract house. Over 600 boxes. If you have any money or credit, get something on the periphery of or in Austin. Traffic will increase and it might suck more as it grows-up like a big city over time, but such properties will only increase in value out of s&d. For example, ATX has plenty of water (it's been raining like crazy) while the West and Southwest are mostly in megadroughts. Houston gets leveled by hurricanes regularly, so that's not a good place to be. The sweet spots to live in the US are now from ATX northwest to just about the border of the middle of eastern New Mexico. It's also the area with the fewest disaster risks and higher solar insolation. If water could be made plentiful there, it would be an ideal area to start a new megacity metro.