Corey Y wrote:Corey Y wrote:Ohio is kind of a shithole in the same way that everywhere is kind of a shithole. The upside is that I've literally never seen such low cost of living in a place. In/around Cincinnati, you can work at fucking McDonalds and still have a 3 bedroom house with a full finished basement for jamming. And everyone is super nice because it's all white people who are terrified of everything
BUT if my mom didn't live close by, and I had the opportunity to buy some shit outright, you'd be seeing my ass somewhere in Ohio in a heartbeat.
This pretty much sums up why we're moving lol. The place we live in now is such a shithole with absolutely nothing to do related to my interests, on a level that almost no one ever really believes me about, but it's crazy expensive in every regard. Living in a town/house that's no better or worse than where we are now, but with no mortgage or debt, a full basement that I can convert into a studio and higher rated schools would be a huge net gain.
I just read over your posts, but yeah. Ohio's kinda in the "I can live in a decent sized house for cheap, play loud as fuck and no one calls the cops" zone if you're in the right place.
My house was 130K and payments are very reasonable.
The other duder in my band recently moved to Cuyahoga Falls (Northeast-ish Akron) and his mortgage is super low, he lives in a nice neighbourhood, and he plays in the basement with an Orange, Laney, and practically a wall of cabs and we've never had the cops called on us there.
I'm super introverted so I moved into the suburban-country type area south-east of Akron where I can go weeks without seeing my neighbors if I time things right but there's still running water, electricity, and high-speed internet.