Exploring a Move
Myself and my husband are considering leaving San Antonio Texas and Denver has been calling us. This is a year and half at least away as we like to move before my daughter goes into 5th (she is in third right now) We are tired of not being able to enjoy the outdoors year round without melting. I’m from San Antonio and he is from Houston, and each summer just feels more and more like a trap.
We make about $180k gross a year so our lifestyle in San Antonio has been great. I anticipate use being over $200k by the time we move.
We have a 8 year daughter who is very social and plays soccer. She is also in a gifted and talented program that she loves, so more suburban feeling neighborhood with kids out playing, schools with lots of programs (she loves choir), and something where we can get what we need nearby are some top priorities.
Both our jobs have offices in downtown Denver, but right now we commune an hour each way here in San Antonio. Reducing that be great, but we also work remote a few days a week so it’s fine. The light rail would be great to use as we love public transport when we travel out of Texas.
I say our budget for a home is maybe $450k (might need to go up to $550k) and we don’t need much (3 bedroom and 2 full bathroom in the minimum and works well for our family). Is that even realistic? We are also open to rent or consider townhomes (just want a garage)
I have a good friend that moved from Houston to castle rock and they love it. They have green space behind their house and I LOVE the idea of that.
We definitely are comfortable in the suburbs but open to more urban if there are great public schools as I think private will be out of reach.
Thank you so much for this sub! I have looked at a lot of posts but maybe we are being too low with our home price.