I don't seen any holes in the plan, and buying the out-of-town place before the in-town place makes sense to me as a preferred order, since that provides the change in living environment that you're looking for more immediately.
Living in a small town can be in many ways a significant adaptation for a lot of people, but I'm not going to waste much time on that, because it sounds like you can easily afford to risk finding out you don't like it and want to move back.
I will mention that for the resources at your disposal, it sounds like you have quite a range of options.
For example, Lake Washington isn't the ocean, but it's also not a particularly small body of water, and it sounds like waterfront property on some of the "poorer" stretches of Lake Washington would be within your reach, and remain very close to the large number of medical facilities in the area.
Downshifting a level in urbanization and price, Puget Sound is even larger, it is salt water, much of it remains close urban amenities, but you would get less wind and more sun than the coast, and have a very wide range of options for location, from Elliot Bay to San Juan Island (starting to get rather isolated in that case, although Kenmore Air flies from there to Lake Union in something like 45 minutes). An intermediate option would be a location like Camano Island or Anacortes.
You also could head back to the East Coast if your wife still has an attachment to that area.
Regarding Ocean Shores, I was going to mention the tsunami. It seems like you're not neglecting that, but it's probably worth challenging yourself how much you really identify with Harry Truman (if you grew up in Washington, you probably know I'm not referring to the former president).
The USGS puts the likelihood of a full subduction zone rupture at roughly 1-in-500 for any given year. That might not sound like much, but it's a far higher level of risk than most people will accept for any other scenario. Working in the aerospace industry, I'm particularly aware of the fact that living there full time is many thousands of times higher risk than most people will accept for stepping on an airplane.
30-40 minutes after the earthquake, Ocean Shores and similar towns like Long Beach and most of Seaside cease to exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZDgH-D-6co
I definitely like visiting the coast, but I don't think I'd live a majority of my time anywhere along Washington's or Oregon's coast that wasn't less than 15 minutes brisk walk from elevations above 50 feet.
Living in a small town can be in many ways a significant adaptation for a lot of people, but I'm not going to waste much time on that, because it sounds like you can easily afford to risk finding out you don't like it and want to move back.
I will mention that for the resources at your disposal, it sounds like you have quite a range of options.
For example, Lake Washington isn't the ocean, but it's also not a particularly small body of water, and it sounds like waterfront property on some of the "poorer" stretches of Lake Washington would be within your reach, and remain very close to the large number of medical facilities in the area.
Downshifting a level in urbanization and price, Puget Sound is even larger, it is salt water, much of it remains close urban amenities, but you would get less wind and more sun than the coast, and have a very wide range of options for location, from Elliot Bay to San Juan Island (starting to get rather isolated in that case, although Kenmore Air flies from there to Lake Union in something like 45 minutes). An intermediate option would be a location like Camano Island or Anacortes.
You also could head back to the East Coast if your wife still has an attachment to that area.
Regarding Ocean Shores, I was going to mention the tsunami. It seems like you're not neglecting that, but it's probably worth challenging yourself how much you really identify with Harry Truman (if you grew up in Washington, you probably know I'm not referring to the former president).
The USGS puts the likelihood of a full subduction zone rupture at roughly 1-in-500 for any given year. That might not sound like much, but it's a far higher level of risk than most people will accept for any other scenario. Working in the aerospace industry, I'm particularly aware of the fact that living there full time is many thousands of times higher risk than most people will accept for stepping on an airplane.
30-40 minutes after the earthquake, Ocean Shores and similar towns like Long Beach and most of Seaside cease to exist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZDgH-D-6co
I definitely like visiting the coast, but I don't think I'd live a majority of my time anywhere along Washington's or Oregon's coast that wasn't less than 15 minutes brisk walk from elevations above 50 feet.
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