stephenson
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Our story ...pretty boring, but would appreciate your thoughts!
Probably in last year of OMY ...no discontent at work, just increasingly boring. My daydreaming eventually coalesced around the point that I am apparently working to support a big house in an expensive place (Fairfax County, VA) with expensive taxes (real estate and Virginia state) with kids gone.
Five years ago we bought a small house on Smith Mountain Lake, about four hours from the main house - point was to get away (we do every other weekend), and, rent it out when we didn't want to use it (never have). This is our "punch out" location - where we would go when we sell the big house. We have already donated a lot of furniture and household goods, and have curb alerted (craigslist) 10K pounds of stuff. Intent is to sell off almost every piece of furniture, move the 10% we don't sell, store some at the SML house, store some somewhere else (kids live in Atlanta), etc, and then consider our navels for a few months at the lake.
I might continue to work, but under creative circumstances I haven't yet created
Our previous plan was to use the lake house as a "summer place," with domestic and international travel time overlapping spring and fall with the smaller crowds. But, one can only do this for so long - and, my way better half has informed me she really wants a "home" - however, neither of use thinks the lake works in this regard. We would still use the lake for summers - very pleasant weather and nice water.
We're both from "old Florida" (her - Pensacola; me - St Pete) ... and I have always been a water person (grew up on Tampa Bay in the Pasadena area). We have been watching friends relo to gated communities across south Florida, but we have always wanted to be around a more mixed age and ethnicity group than most seem to have. We don't want the giant house and aren't trying to impress - we do want to be near a bay, a single family house, sense of community, would like a club with golf, food/drinks and social atmosphere, houses with docks or boat storage, etc ... I recall my childhood in a non-gated community now called Pasadena Yacht and Country Club, but don't have a frame of reference because I was young and my parents didn't do country clubs - we just lived there.
I've looked a lot online, but it is hard to get through the hype ... would appreciate your thoughts around this topic ... and, yeah, we'll be doing trips to investigate - probably take a few months and drag a small center console boat around Florida's bays and see what appeals.
Thanks!!
Probably in last year of OMY ...no discontent at work, just increasingly boring. My daydreaming eventually coalesced around the point that I am apparently working to support a big house in an expensive place (Fairfax County, VA) with expensive taxes (real estate and Virginia state) with kids gone.
Five years ago we bought a small house on Smith Mountain Lake, about four hours from the main house - point was to get away (we do every other weekend), and, rent it out when we didn't want to use it (never have). This is our "punch out" location - where we would go when we sell the big house. We have already donated a lot of furniture and household goods, and have curb alerted (craigslist) 10K pounds of stuff. Intent is to sell off almost every piece of furniture, move the 10% we don't sell, store some at the SML house, store some somewhere else (kids live in Atlanta), etc, and then consider our navels for a few months at the lake.
I might continue to work, but under creative circumstances I haven't yet created
Our previous plan was to use the lake house as a "summer place," with domestic and international travel time overlapping spring and fall with the smaller crowds. But, one can only do this for so long - and, my way better half has informed me she really wants a "home" - however, neither of use thinks the lake works in this regard. We would still use the lake for summers - very pleasant weather and nice water.
We're both from "old Florida" (her - Pensacola; me - St Pete) ... and I have always been a water person (grew up on Tampa Bay in the Pasadena area). We have been watching friends relo to gated communities across south Florida, but we have always wanted to be around a more mixed age and ethnicity group than most seem to have. We don't want the giant house and aren't trying to impress - we do want to be near a bay, a single family house, sense of community, would like a club with golf, food/drinks and social atmosphere, houses with docks or boat storage, etc ... I recall my childhood in a non-gated community now called Pasadena Yacht and Country Club, but don't have a frame of reference because I was young and my parents didn't do country clubs - we just lived there.
I've looked a lot online, but it is hard to get through the hype ... would appreciate your thoughts around this topic ... and, yeah, we'll be doing trips to investigate - probably take a few months and drag a small center console boat around Florida's bays and see what appeals.
Thanks!!
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