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My husband and I, we're going to be relocating the Florida in November.

We are on baby steps six and seven, and we're kind of struggling with deciding if we should purchase a home or rent.

Only reason being is if we're going to rent, it's going to cost us

about anywhere from $2,100 to $2,500 a month and just running numbers on a mortgage. It would be

paying about the same thing for a mortgage. So we're just kind of struggling with deciding

with our financial situation, what would be best or the smart way to do that.

What's causing you guys to move? You're just moving for work?

Yeah, we've always wanted to move there, and we both have jobs lined up, so better opportunities

for the both of us. I mean, I could definitely understand the idea of if you own a home now,

like you see the value in that. So wanting to go to Florida

and also buy a home. But there's a big part of that where when you make these big moves cross

country or even just, you know, to another county, if you don't know the area, it's really hard to make

a wise decision because you don't even know what part of the city that you want to live in. So

in many ways, I would just say,

get there, get settled rent for a while until you can learn which areas of town you like and which

areas of town, you know, have the best schools and all of those things that really do go into

making a good home buying decision. Yeah, because buying a home. We've done a lot of research on that

too. Oh, sorry. No, go ahead. Go ahead. You're good. We've been down there a lot the past six

months just for my, the process for my husband transferring his job from here to there. So we do have a

pretty good idea of where we want to be. I guess it's just the struggle of, you know,

if we should jump into it. Obviously, we don't know if it's going to work out. Obviously,

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