I'm ready to go. :) My 900 square foot house in San Diego on a less than quarter acre of land has gone from $125,000 to being valued at over $400,000 (maybe more) in the time I bought it (six years ago). I live in a neighborhood of transient apartment dwellers who think nothing of trashing the property, drug dealers, and baby gangsters who are vicious because they believe they are protected by their age from persecution (they would be right in most cases). Why don't I move? Because the medium cost of a house is half a million dollars, and that's not an upgrade in neighborhoods from what I have. San Diego, where I was born, has gone from a lovely, laid back, polite town to a dirty, mean, broke city that is expensive and ill managed. Ohio doesn't sound that bad to me. Our beaches are polluted and our mountains suffer from the air pollution the winds blow into them. Forests, streams and fresh air sound wonderful to me. I would never argue with the need for a change. :)