Looking for a new place to live.

krestofre

krestofre

Knight of the Holy Order
So, my wife wants to move. She's tired of this city and longs for a change.

We've talked about St. Louis, North Carolina (Raleigh area), Chicago, and Louisville. (I tried to get her to add Memphis to the list, "We'll be close to the King, honey!" but she didn't go for it.) Any DVXUsers from those areas that can give me the inside scoop? How's the local filmmaking community? Any regular work for an Avid editor? What's cost of living like? Anything fun to do? Stuff like that.

I pretty much know about St. Louis and I think that would be the easiest move, but I have to admit that North Carolina is the most intriguing. I can't even say why, it just sounds nice. Chicago is one of my wife's old loves. And Louisville is the home to some of my wife's family (though I'm at a serious disadvantage because I can't pronounce it correctly: Lou-ah-vuhl or something).

Chris
 
Sure is. I have no desire for New York or LA, so I carve out what minimilistic existance I can in between. But thanks for asking. :)
 
I kidd I kidd,

Ive been thinking about the makeing the move to wheeling MO myself, not much of a film makeing comunity but maybe I could become a blacksmith and fabricate tractor parts.

(actually I am half serious about this, I made a docu there once and its a beautiful area)
 
krestofre said:
Sure is. I have no desire for New York or LA, so I carve out what minimilistic existance I can in between. But thanks for asking. :)
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I'm not a big fan of NYC or LA either.
I love Raleigh though, actually all of North Carolina is beatiful. I'm not sure what the filmmaking community is like there because I wasn;t in to filmmaking back then. But, you are not far from the Smokey mountains national park and its not hard to find work there.
 
Go to NC, that's where everybody's going... :)

Check out findyourspot.com, might help you prioritize and pick a place. NC's got the biggest sound stage outside of Hollywood, and a new tax incentive plan just got passed which rebates 15% of a producer's taxable expenditures back to them (so, provided you're paying tax on the money you spend, you get a 15% cash rebate from the government). A few big series are shot down in the Wilmington area, like Surface and One Tree Hill, and there's always an indie film or doc going on. Talk to the local film commissioner about the employment situation though; AIUI there are five different film commissioners in the state, spread out among the major filming areas.
 
Check it out -- it's got San Diego weather, low cost of living, beaches, rivers, forests, and a film industry. What more could you want? Well, as long as you don't mind getting slapped around by a hurricane every few years... but at least you can see those coming, unlike mudslides and earthquakes and forest fires... so...

Raleigh's a different world from Wilmington though. Raleigh's the state capital and a genuine big city; Wilmington's a 300-year-old small town. Very different...
 
Look seriously at Austin, TX. Large, creative-artistic population. Plenty of fun activities, not your typical big city mentality(but I-35 is a pain in the ass after 3pm). Music community is vibrant and awesome.

I lived there for two years and would love to go back someday.
 
Thanks for the suggestion, but my wife used to live in TX and she isn't going back for anything.
 
Barry_Green said:
Go to NC, that's where everybody's going... :)
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Well; anyone who's anyone anyway's.

You could'nt pay me enough cash to live in L.A. and So-Cal's mystique has long faded.
 
If I may be so bold to ask, what made you decide, John? This will actually be the first time I've moved more than 10 miles.
 
A ton of reasons directly related to the betterment of the family (housing, cost of living, quality of life, educatoinal oppurtunites............)
 
Hey, Chris suprised to see that're you're maybe moving...

So who I'm I going to buy tapes from when I'm out...

So will that mean I'll have the only DVX or even HVX in Springfield when I get back there...

Maybe why John would move... Is the same reason I did...

The reason I moved from Orange County to Springfield was for family... also for home prices... my sisters want to purchase a home and for a down payment here you can get a better house in Springfield than the one I have here in Huntington Beach...

Myself wanting to live on a farm all my life... I searched high and low in California... even if I found a great deal I was always a day late and more than anything a dollar short...

Back there let's say in Seymour you can get a good farm for again a down payment in California...

Plus I've been working with a company and we've done some small commericals (maybe on going) shoots for Universal (one even with a DVX)... and I'm line-producing a movie next month out here... I can make enough on that film so that I can farm the rest of the year... since I own my property out right in Missouri...

Well, if you go let me know... I'll be back the first week next month for a week... then its back to California... plus I get to go to Cancun for four days... even though I'll be working the shoot the whole time...

Good luck,

Gary, a fellow MFAS member.
 
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