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Where would you really like to live?

I would like to live in a house on a lake with lots of pine trees in the area. For DH this house would have to be where the winters do not get too cold and there is very little chance of snow.
 
mrsmom said:
Oh we honnymooned in Savannah 15 years ago and loved it!!!



I grew up in LG (P's still live there). What schools do your friends have their kids in?
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I will have to ask but if this gives you an idea they live right off downtown Lake Geneva! They can't say enough about how great the schools are compared to IL...they used to live about 15 min. from us so the same county.
 
crdnlsfan said:
St. Louis. Hopefully DH will be able to find a job there next summer. Love, love, love all things St. Louis! I am actually house sitting for my parents in St. Louis now, so starting tomorrow we are going to do all the St. Louis stuff.
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St. Louis: Like Detroit, only smaller.
 
kewpon addict said:
I will have to ask but if this gives you an idea they live right off downtown Lake Geneva! They can't say enough about how great the schools are compared to IL...they used to live about 15 min. from us so the same county.
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If they're in grade school, they prolly go to Central/ Denison. I went to Eastview. I enjoyed the schools there.........it's a great town to grow up in. :cartwheel:I would make the move if you could. ;)
 
crdnlsfan said:
You don't live in the city...
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meh, too hot & humid for the midwest in the summer. I have family all around St. Louis (old St. Charles, St. Charles, Ballwin, St. Peters, O'Fallon, Florrisant, etc.) and none of those places are any better than the Chicago suburbs...
 
JRL19 said:
meh, too hot & humid for the midwest in the summer. I have family all around St. Louis (old St. Charles, St. Charles, Ballwin, St. Peters, O'Fallon, Florrisant, etc.) and none of those places are any better than the Chicago suburbs...
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I've also heard St. Louis is miserable in the summer (I think the Cubs announcers said that lol). :giggles:
 
San Diego for sure. A little expensive - but the weather cannot be beat. We always end up back there for vacation about every four years. And every time we ask ourselves - why don't we move here?????
 
mrsmom said:
I've also heard St. Louis is miserable in the summer (I think the Cubs announcers said that lol). :giggles:
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It is. Generally it's 5 to 10 degrees hotter than Chicago with about the same or more humidity....I'd take a St. Louis winter over Chicago any day of the week though. However, if I had my choice of any location within the 48 continental states I'd probably choose San Diego myself...
 
mrsmom said:
Wanna buy my BIL's condo? He just lost his jobs, his wife is a SAHM so they might have to move back here.
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Not at the moment. Perhaps in a decade or so....unless I strike it rich, then maybe I'd consider it as a vacation home.
 
JRL19 said:
Not at the moment. Perhaps in a decade or so....unless I strike it rich, then maybe I'd consider it as a vacation home.
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I don't know what they're gonna do. They've been upside down on it since they paid too much for it at the height of prices a couple years before the recession. They might just have to walk away from it (like so many others). He's a scientist (molecular biology) so it's not like it's an easy job to find.
 
Arthur IL in the Amish community. Love going over there and I know I could adapt to almost everything in their way of life. The dress would be a deal breaker. I am a jeans girl all the way
 
JRL19 said:
meh, too hot & humid for the midwest in the summer. I have family all around St. Louis (old St. Charles, St. Charles, Ballwin, St. Peters, O'Fallon, Florrisant, etc.) and none of those places are any better than the Chicago suburbs...
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You can find a plethora of houses in a good school district that has at least 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a basement, and an attached garage for under $200k. You aren't finding that in the Chicago suburbs (We've tried.) Also property taxes are about 50% cheaper. Totally partial to St. Louis b/c I grew up here. Love that it isn't as large and has a good baseball team. Also, the road infrastructure is much better.

Chicago beats St. Louis on grocery deals any day and it is nice that they don't have personal property tax on vehicles. The gas prices are lower in the STL, but I don't think that it would make up for the personal property tax. Chicago summers are better, but St. Louis winters are better.
 
Belize, the cost of living is lower then in the US, they speak English, and I would love to open up a little bed and breakfast on the oceanfront. Sigh..........
 
crdnlsfan said:
You can find a plethora of houses in a good school district that has at least 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a basement, and an attached garage for under $200k. You aren't finding that in the Chicago suburbs (We've tried.) Also property taxes are about 50% cheaper. Totally partial to St. Louis b/c I grew up here. Love that it isn't as large and has a good baseball team. Also, the road infrastructure is much better.

Chicago beats St. Louis on grocery deals any day and it is nice that they don't have personal property tax on vehicles. The gas prices are lower in the STL, but I don't think that it would make up for the personal property tax. Chicago summers are better, but St. Louis winters are better.
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Move here! Lots of nice cheap houses here. :cartwheel:
 
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