W9 Alachua Location Decisions

I started out looking at the basic criteria that you were looking for in a location to purchase a home.  The fist map illustrates the four criteria you specified with respect to location of your place of businesses, peer groups relative to age, and housing cost individually.

The second map has two individual frames with the first one representing all criteria as weighted equally.  So it will give you an area that is the best when you don’t have a preference on the criteria. In other words, none of the criteria are more important that any of the other three.  This way you don’t have to decide what is the most important if you don’t agree on it.

The second frame represents the same set of criteria, but you have determined that relative distance to work is much more important after driving in the city for a little while. Now the distance to work is weighted more than the housing cost and the peer group relative to age.

Now you can prioritize those three tracts to start searching for a new home.