Quote Originally Posted by AP View Post
I bet that's one of the biggest perks in moving from SoCal to OKC.
Haha... Absolutely!

My house here is bigger, nicer and on a much bigger lot and it cost me about 1/4 what I paid out there, and I lived in what was considered a semi-affordable area. However, no mountain or beach view here.

It's not only the mortgage but having a ton of money tied up through down payment. I was able to free that up and drastically reduce my monthly costs.

I posted elsewhere that I was worried about utilities here and how that might offset some of the savings but they have worked out to be pretty equal, as electric is much higher here due to the need to run a/c but water is much cheaper, so everything should pretty much even out over the course of a year.