Nota Bene :  While this post is about our move to Echols County, Georgia back in 2009, it's still interesting and relevant to anyone contemplating a geo-arbitrage move.  I never got around to putting it on my blog until now...better late than never!  Here's what I wrote back when our net worth was around $450k: Our Big Move In the spring of 2009 my wife and I decided to leave our teaching jobs at LaGrange High School in LaGrange, Georgia for new jobs at Echols County High School in Statenville, Georgia.  We knew our lives would change in a number of ways.  ( Read all about it here. )  First, we went from a high school with an enrollment of 1,100 students to one with 180 students. Actually, the Echols County School System only had about 800 students in the entire district—it’s fair to say that it had the feel of a private school.  With a smaller enrollment, we also expected to have smaller classes and we were not disappointed.…