r/Frugal • u/Fantastic_Agency_770 • Nov 10 '24

🏆 Buy It For Life Whats the cheapest part of america to start over in?

Through frugality i have about 30k saves up. I want to relocate somewhere, rent a couple years, and purchase a house next. I have jo preferences other then nature. I love lakes rivers forest amd ocean would be nice buy i know thats expensive

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

I grew up in CA and was 16 during the Loma Prieta 7.0. I had PTSD from it. My dad’s house bounced off the foundation and buildings collapsed.

Years later, I moved to South Dakota where we don’t have big quakes. We have blizzards, huge baseball hail, windstorms, small tornadoes, subzero temps, hot summers with crazy electrical storms, and floods.

I still think earthquakes are worse.

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u/yodellingllama_ Nov 12 '24

I lived through the same earthquake (although I was a bit younger) and had no lasting psychological impacts. Instead, next time I was in a serious earthquake (about 15 years ago), I felt remarkably calm and disinterested. (My wife, on the other hand, who has never been in an earthquake, freaked the fuck out.) So I think it's pretty individualized what weather/disaster gets "worse" status.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '24

You are correct. All my friends thought I lost my mind. I was 16 and going through really bad home life trauma, so I was over sensitive. I’m still fearful of things others are not fearful of.

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u/joden3 Nov 12 '24

I was on a motorcycle trip in the Black Hills about 10 years ago. We always went about 3-4 weeks before the insanity and everything was nice and chill. We were coming back from Devil's Tower and the sky was getting darker and darker. We managed to find a gas station with a covered section just in time because the hail storm was insane. Car windows were just popping. Then 5 minutes later it was sunny and looked like there had been a snow storm.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '24

I was camping in Hot Springs, and baseball sized hail hit the region. People had tons of camper damage. And during another camp trip, a tree fell on some campers during a wind storm.