Some years back our second daughter and her husband were living in the finished basement of our old house in Colorado. They lived there while trying to save money for a down payment on a house of their own, but the arrival of their daughter and then their first son set that plan back, and then Colorado real estate prices just kept ratcheting further out of reach. So, after talking with our oldest daughter, they moved to eastern Iowa, found jobs, and now own a comfortable four-bedroom, two-bath house in the same small Iowa town where our oldest lives. The sisters live only a few blocks from each other. Real estate prices are, obviously, much more affordable in their little Iowa town.
Our youngest two, with no kids among them (at least, not yet) still live in the Denver area. They are renting a nice townhome in a quiet, safe suburb of Denver, although they are only able to do so…
