The house next door to us is going up for sale soon. Five acres, several
barns and a 100 year old, two-story colonial house for $115,000. But you
would have to live in South Carolina with a Confederate flag flying across
the street ;-)
Tina
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/29/2017 2:29 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> Left Coast Moose wrote:
>>
>>> So we might be neighbors??
>>>
>> Probably not. The opportunity that I looked at there just wasn't
>> paying enough to offset the increased cost of living and income taxes.
>>
>
> Didn't really think so; just a little riff on where I would think is
> exciting, vs. most of the places you are thinking of.
>
> Truth be told, this is a wonderful place to live - if - you can afford it
> - and - you don't have a commute.
>
> I can afford it in part because I bought a little, two bedroom, one bath
> house in 1969 for $26,400 and moved across the street to a larger house
> when prices were depressed by 18% interest rates in 1981. There's been
> inflation since then and this neighborhood has gone up even faster. I
> couldn't buy in now unless I had a house of the same value somewhere else
> to sell. Then there's Prop 13, which keeps my property taxes much lower
> than on a new buy.
>
> I was also lucky, working close to home; short commute, lots of
> alternative routes when something backed up. The last few years, I did have
> a longish commute, but it was one of the last reverse commutes in the area
> - and I started working from home more and more. Now, I have no commute! :-D
>
> The other problem is getting out elsewhere. We live in a quiet, hilly,
> tree rich, low density heaven, separated from the rest of the world by
> endless stretches of people and often slow roads. Careful choice of when to
> go or come home is important.
>
> OTOH, there are worse places. The LA-San Diego area is in a state of
> endless traffic problems, everywhere at commute hours, randomly distributed
> mid-day. All the ratings say it's the worst. They say San Jose is close,
> but one can get through SJ in the middle of the day pretty easily, which
> isn't true of LA.
>
> I THOUGHT Seattle was awful when we were there last, and I see it's #3.
> Again, though, we could get around mid-day, but about 3 pm the hammer
> drops. I see Houston and Austin made the top (bottom) ten.
>
> Lucky Duck Moose
>
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