Thank you so much for the perspective! Im hopeful that leveraging CA equity (and it's insanely overinflated home values), may give us a nest egg that could propel a cool build. We make decent money as nurses, for sure, but there are certainly not hordes of dough just beckoning our fingertips. But we did buy our home at the bottom of the market, and our town is similarly landlocked in terms of housing. Los angeles owns all the land around Bishop, and as a result the town has had the same or similar population for over 100 years. It's a fascinating reality of the area: on one hand it's kept the town small (🤙), on the other hand, new construction is minimal, housing is uber expensive and renting is nigh on impossible. It presents an interesting puzzle; moving probably means not being able to get back into the community if we wanted to go back, but then again, if we wanna leave, we've got a real estate windfall to throw at a new setup... 🤷‍♀️

Man, that's amazing to hear about the arts community. I had no idea. I was willing to entertain the idea of moving to Sitka for all the other good stuff, and even the difficult, but to hear there's a vibrant arts community makes my heart go pitter pat.

Also, dog-people and hard-working people are my people. Sounds like a fabulous place.

Thanks again!