First let me set the stage on where we are coming from: Our 3,000 plus square foot home on a wooded acre is worth around $500K. The property taxes are a whopping $10.5k/yr. The second floor master can, at times, be a nuisance for my metal knees. Facing the house the lot falls off to the right. As a bit of a gardener I’ve squeezed in a huge vegetable garden but sadly it isn’t full sun. Hence the big tomato/ flower pots that line my front walk that I employ each growing season.
The killer school district and easy commute to Philly and Wilmington has had the town growing for last 13 years that we’ve been there. There’s really no land left for expansion. I find it choking. Its amazing but a 25 minute drive and you are in Horse/Farm country.
Bottom line $1,000+ a month taxes (and homeowner insurance) stairs, crowds and the desire to start a new adventure has had me scanning the housing horizon for a while.
We just finished a weeks vacation in Louisville, Kentucky. We did the tourist thing: Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Derby museum, Louisville Slugger Factory, the bourbon tours. [I discovered I enjoy Buffalo Trace Eagle Rare 10 year old bourbon @ $35 a bottle. I’ll forgo the $235 a bottle Pappy Van Winkle.]. I had a notion to check the housing prices and was amazed at what $230K can buy here. A brick rancher on 10 acres! Of course I’m thinking hey you can escape the insanity of the Northeast Prices!
Care to share what a 3 bedroom, 2 bath rancher with enough room for a couple tomato plants cost in your neck of the woods?
The killer school district and easy commute to Philly and Wilmington has had the town growing for last 13 years that we’ve been there. There’s really no land left for expansion. I find it choking. Its amazing but a 25 minute drive and you are in Horse/Farm country.
Bottom line $1,000+ a month taxes (and homeowner insurance) stairs, crowds and the desire to start a new adventure has had me scanning the housing horizon for a while.
We just finished a weeks vacation in Louisville, Kentucky. We did the tourist thing: Churchill Downs, the Kentucky Derby museum, Louisville Slugger Factory, the bourbon tours. [I discovered I enjoy Buffalo Trace Eagle Rare 10 year old bourbon @ $35 a bottle. I’ll forgo the $235 a bottle Pappy Van Winkle.]. I had a notion to check the housing prices and was amazed at what $230K can buy here. A brick rancher on 10 acres! Of course I’m thinking hey you can escape the insanity of the Northeast Prices!
Care to share what a 3 bedroom, 2 bath rancher with enough room for a couple tomato plants cost in your neck of the woods?
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