Crime and cost of living in your area.

A small update: I have PT I need to use up by the end of the year, so I took yesterday and today off spontaneously. Got a little work done on the Swinger.

Took the wife and kids out to Elma, about 45 mins west from me now. It’s a town I know well from my childhood, but it was the first time the wife and kids had been.

Julie really liked it,and the kids had a blast at a local park. After they were tuckered out, we drove around and looked for the bad side of town. No camps, and no zombies. Still just as clean and quaint as it was when I was younger.

It’s an extra 25 minutes to my commute, and the rents are about the same. But I’m considering it. It was so nice to just see normal people, doing normal things. No trash fires in the woods. No druggies running into the road.

I don’t think I can afford property there though, and that is ultimately the goal. So I’m still looking, but it was nice to see normal isn’t so far out of reach.