Hey y'all. I'm 36 years old and live with my family in the steaming pile of shit that is California. I have a wife, 1 year old daughter, and a 6 year old son who has downs syndrome.
We need to escape. Our family income is ~$160k and we're barely able to make it. Even worse, the special education services in our district stop at 3rd grade. Looking at state compliance with the Idea act, Comifornia scores a big fat zero.
Your wonderful state however is up at the top of that list. Add to that the cost of living and the vast rural properties that are a short drive from the major towns, and I'm about ready to start packing my bags tonight!
Just wanted to get some info from anyone who lives out there. How are schools overall? Weather? Natural disasters? Gun rights? If you have experience with the special education programs, what do you think?
The move would probably be in around 1 to 2 years, using that time to transition our jobs into full time remote work so we wouldn't even have to worry about switching careers ( my wife and I are around 50% telecommute already, and the companies have roughly agreed to the idea.)
So there it is, convince me to move to the state of house racing and bourbon. And always, MAGA!
Yeah, we're putting together a spreadsheet that has all the states and assigns points for a number of factors that we deem important. We're still in the early stages, and so far we only have factors like special education rating, overall general education, NRA score, property and income tax rates, etc. Broad factors that will help narrow the state selection. Virginia and Pennsylvania score quite well too, but politics of those areas are not the best.
Once we have that narrowed down to the top 3 to 5, we'll have to get a little more focused as I know in any area you can have one district with terrible scores and the next town over is pulling a 9/10
Outside of northern Virginia, Virginia is VERY red. Think you would like sw Virginia, TN, etc. Just do a deep dive into schools for your son cause sometimes those scores can be total bullshit.