
I was paid $5,000 to move to a 'dying' town. I was sold a hidden gem... but could never have predicted what it did to my life
Kelley Meadows was fed up with the Texas heat – and the price of living – as her lease came to an end two years ago in Killeen, about 70 miles north of Austin.
She had spent most of her life in the Lone Star State but had already been priced out of the capital, where the majority of her family resided.

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