I sold my pricier home in Arizona and bought a $70,000 house in Kansas for peace of mind in my twilight years
I'd lived in Arizona since 1996. I started being concerned about the environment there in 2020 when the news reported that the water levels were dropping in the reservoirs. The more I heard about the drought and the dropping water levels, the more I felt like I really needed to leave.Some places already have. There are places where people's wells have run dry. There was a settlement outside of Scottsdale, Arizona,.
I listed my two-bedroom, one-bathroom condo in August 2021. It was a pretty crazy market then. I got an offer within five days. That deal fell through, and when it went back on the market, somebody else grabbed it up immediately. Originally it was listed for $185,000. It was purchased for $184,500.halbergman/Getty Images
I'm a medical transcriptionist. I thought it would be a lifelong career. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of tumult in the industry. They've started shipping work out overseas. There's no guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing that kind of work.
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