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As a result, my wife and I were able to move, though we did the opposite of what you're considering. Having been in the burbs for the last 28 years of my life, we made the switch to move to the city. Sold our house during the very hot market and bought a condo in the city. We're almost a year in and loving it.
I'm now considering all the possibilities.
It also makes working while traveling a much more open thing to do. I'm considering getting an RV for extended traveling.
Basically remote work opens up massive lifestyle changes for me.
The pandemic's normalization of remote work enabled this move (which otherwise would have been deferred until retirement) to occur with minimal risk to my existing W2 income stream, which made what would otherwise have been a somewhat fraught transition largely worry free. I am also grateful that the pandemic in its first 9 months also removed one of my primary pre-move daily-life stressors: a heinous twice-daily commute on massively oversubscribed south bay roads and highways (which was far from being the worst possible).
I'm in my late 20s and used to live in London. Moved my things out of my flatshare and into my parents' place last year. Since then I've been bouncing around different countries but have found I really like Porto, Portugal. My cost of living is roughly 33% of London (for example: rent, housing taxes and utilities costs in London were £1100 - I'm paying £350 total in Porto). At the same time, the quality of life here…