It was easy for me. I love the PNW. We built a house on Whidbey Island years ago and our first thought was to go back there...or inland in the Puget Sound area. But I have a really good friend living 45 north of where I am now and usually, it seems, we tend to go where we know someone or have family. We're as far north as we can be and still benefit from California's Prop 13...lol..spoke to an acquaintance in Arizona yesterday and though I would not want tl live there myself anyway, he says his proprty taxes are going up 5% per year...
We have a small yard here now which is all that I want at this stage of my life anyway and we do have a well. Our immediate neighbors are all on well water also and I am able to plant, but we all quit watering grass anyway come summer...we go brown....we get rain, but are all quite aware of our water situation and water very conservatively come summer when we don't get a lot of rain...
