Our salt box 80's home is very nice (and recently upgraded for the most part), though no Better Homes and Gardens material. It is in a rural area in the Hudson Valley Region of NY on 10.5 acres of wooded land with a stream and a bridge and is set back 700 feet into the woods from the road.
It has been great as we have worked all these years and it has been a wonderful retreat to come back to each day and on weekends, surrounded by woods and wildlife.
That said- when we retire we want to move to New Hampshire where our only child lives because it is too secluded here for aging and we want to be in some kind of community where other people are around, yet still in a rural type area.
But it is hard to find something there in our price range as our home here has barely appreciated due to market conditions and we need the money from the sale of our home to buy something in New Hampshire.
Not sure what we are going to do. We have lived here since 1987. The home was being built when we bought it.
It has been great as we have worked all these years and it has been a wonderful retreat to come back to each day and on weekends, surrounded by woods and wildlife.
That said- when we retire we want to move to New Hampshire where our only child lives because it is too secluded here for aging and we want to be in some kind of community where other people are around, yet still in a rural type area.
But it is hard to find something there in our price range as our home here has barely appreciated due to market conditions and we need the money from the sale of our home to buy something in New Hampshire.
Not sure what we are going to do. We have lived here since 1987. The home was being built when we bought it.
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