Well yours isn't exactly a curve Scarlett, it's more the Boomerang Effect, symptomatic of what is called The Grass Is Greener Syndrome, but happily you are cured. Not only did you come down then discover it's not always greener, but that it sometimes doesn't have any taste at all! Final cure is often reached after months of slow baking followed by intensely swirling winds...which have the effect of clearing one's senses once and for all.

Hey OO, if you are from NYC and move back, couldn't you call it the 'Bloomerang' effect?

(sorry, I'll stop)

Most West Coast people seem to move to Vegas.

There seems to be a steady migration of people from SoCal going to Denver.

LOL, Bloomerang is good

What if we move to the Pacific North West then back to NYC..that would be a Triangular curve? LOL

Those on the "J-" route often end up in NC! ;-)

Cassandra

I think I am going around in a big O curve...started out in NC, went to Ca went on to NYC now in Fl and maybe we will end up on the West Coast or back in NY...big O?

To me part, of life is watching and enjoying the changing seasons. But that's me, everyone has their own choices.
Hi Scarlett!

Hi Mimi, I miss those signs of the season right now!!

Most of my friends (late 40's early 50's) have bought or are planning to buy land in North or South Carolina. Seems everyone here has a thing for there. I'll tell you what, darn near anyplace the property taxes are lower seems like a good place to my hubby and I. $16.000. a year here in central Jersey and no, I don't live in a mansion. Not even close.

It seems like most native Floridians I know want to move to the mountains of North Carolina.

I would bet that most of them who leave California did it because it is too expensive. Same for the DC area. $400,000 for an old out-dated three bedroom, no garage, house with a leaky basement? The same house on the market where I am from would not even get a buyer at $50,000 and would end up a rental. Been watch Double Agents on A&E.

Jersey: I also live in central NJ: 2000 sq. ft. older home on 1/2 acre in Manalapan which has been rated as the number 2 place to live on the east coast by Money magazine. I'm paying just under $7,000 in taxes no where near your $16,000 so I can't imagine what town you're in! Still we have purchased a home to be built in FL now that i've retired!

TeacherD
Hunterdon County-pretty as a picture and when we first moved here inexpensive. The schools are crowded and the taxes are out of control. My neighbors house across the street just sold for $650,000.. Nice house, one acre, and 3500 sf. No bells or whistles, just a pretty larger home. Go figure. Enjoy retirement!

An incredible number of Floridians have a "summer house" in the North Carolina mountains......... then when they retire, a lot of them move up permanently. (I swear, the majority of my sister's neighbors in Roaring Gap are from Florida!!!)

property taxes in New Jersey are out of control.

The advantages of not living in a high priced area of the country and their property taxes: My total property taxes for 2003 were $704. I live on 160 acres of partially wooded land along a river with a great view overlooking the river valley. A three bedroom two story house clad in wooden shingles. three acre lawn and landscaping, 2500 sq. ft. storage building, fifty ft. high brick barn, 1200 sq. ft. hobby building, two car garage. Nearest neighbor is a quarter mile away. I live in Minnesota. Land of better bargins!....and ten thousand lakes.