Yeah, I like sticks too, but boy, commuting costs. Time and money. And better hope that you don't have to change jobs.The further out in the sticks the better
But it sure is nice to sit on my deck and listen birds not cars.
One in four homebuyers want to move, here are the top ten cities they want to move to.
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But it sure is nice to sit on my deck and listen birds not cars.
These retiree's are really pushing up the cost of living in the area and it has become even more transient. It's not often that people retire to the area and stay. They usually pass through after around 10-13 years at which point they attempt to move closer to family/grandkids.
Having grown up in WNC I would say it's a great place to live if you're a builder, doctor, attorney, or banker.
Here is the list of top ten locations people actually moved to
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/10-places-americans-are-moving-and-where-leaving/
and another by PODS but that is just their business for these areas not as official as Realtor.com above
https://www.pods.com/blog/moving-trends/
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/10-places-americans-are-moving-and-where-leaving/
and another by PODS but that is just their business for these areas not as official as Realtor.com above
https://www.pods.com/blog/moving-trends/
Depends where, I you still need to work and be near a metropolitan area is has become more expensive but still much better than lets say Long Island NY
HOWEVER if you are retiring the Coastal Area of North Carolina is still a slam dunk bargain and why its the fastest growing county in the state at least in 2022
https://www.starnewsonline.com/stor...ies-in-u-s-for-population-growth/70086230007/
and
Source - https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/population-estimates-counties.html
With the above said for 2023/24 Texas is knocking it out of the park but not price wise. They are cranking out and selling homes faster than they can build them in NC. Some areas of the coast the new construction once a community is built will our number the original residents in the town. There is soooo much land here and a stones throw to the Myrtle Beach area ... (but dont tell anyone)
Just for those who dunno, Whitman is the dry, hot/cold side of WA state. Colleges there, south of Spokane at the Idaho border. No thanks for me.
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I'd be fine living in a climate like Tennessee, where more equal amounts of winter and summer occur. I couldn't stand living in Florida or Texas year-round, nor North Canada.
If Southeast Michigan had one more month of summer and one less month of winter, I'd chose to keep living here.
But if I had to choose a state currently, I'd probably pick Washington 2nd and Virginia 3rd
If Southeast Michigan had one more month of summer and one less month of winter, I'd chose to keep living here.
But if I had to choose a state currently, I'd probably pick Washington 2nd and Virginia 3rd
Too late the word is out on Myrtle. They have been building like crazy for the last few years. I’m guessing you are north of Myrtle where a lot of the growth is taking place. Also down Murrell’s Inlet way. I was shocked to see all that and expensive places.
I agree that’s why we moved to the North Carolina side of the border, we have the best of both worlds
But please keep it to yourself too. Many people are moving here. The good news is the coast of North Carolina is really pretty and rural. You won’t find big hotels cluttering up the seashore.
Back in the early 90s, my grandfather "retired" from Orlando to Ashe County, NC. He actually made out very well on the move-he'd moved to Orlando(from Kentucky) in the early 60s, pre-Disney, and paid a little of nothing for a tiny little house on a lake. He made a very healthy profit on it, and bought another little house on the side of a mountain with some land that he could garden and stay entertained.
Of course, I grew up going down there 1-3 times a year, and for most of that time his sleepy little town was just that. In probably the early 2000s, one of his friends who owned a construction company basically made it big by specializing in log cabins that they couldn't build fast enough for people who wanted to move to the area. The town mostly still felt the same by the time my grandfather passed in 2014, but the last time I was there it had changed a lot. It was eerily Mayberry-like when we first started visiting, not in a forced way like Mt. Airy, but more just an everyone was happy still living like the 50s/60s with a few modern conveniences thrown in. At least as of a few years ago, it felt like they were trying to be another version of Blowing Rock, or maybe a mini-Asheville, or something in between there. Needless to say, house prices have gone up by quite a bit since my grandfather sold his house, although he made out well on that sale.
Off subject. Is that your schnauzer in the photo?
Freaking awesome dogs (ours is a schnoodle) 1st gen Schnauzer/poodle.
Scary smart, love the schnauzer breed, just my kind of dog, small but tough/sturdy. Like Poodles too obviously .
I looked at that list and ruled them all out.
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Agree. The Palouse region can be beautiful during parts of the year but it's a whole lot of nothing to do as well as hot, hot, hot for much of the year. Lotsa rattlesnakes in places, too.
Friend of mine lives in Compas Pointe outside of Wilmington. He’s a Va guy but the community is full of Yankees.
OMG - same here and I mean EVERYONE.
Let me repeat that, everyone!!!
Though I have to admit before we move down south 16 years ago, we were too.
I have to tell you I never looked back and wondered should I have ever got out of New York
My only fear is I warn everybody don’t bring your voting habits here
Seems to me, Virginia being right there, next to D.C., and on the border with Northern states, that it would almost go without saying that Virginia would be filled with Yankees. At least in the more populated communities.
They go further south for milder weather and taxes. Va. Near DC is mostly foreigners.
Problem is they do. Was looking at a lot in Aiken and the neighbor Tony from Long Island came over and talked. He loved it there and when his family came to visit they all wanted to move there also. He didn’t want them to.OMG - same here and I mean EVERYONE.
Let me repeat that, everyone!!!
Though I have to admit before we move down south 16 years ago, we were too.
I have to tell you I never looked back and wondered should I have ever got out of New York
My only fear is I warn everybody don’t bring your voting habits here
I know of Aiken well though have since moved out on the state