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My husband and I are considering a move from Northern Va to either Charlotte (Lake Norman area) or VA Beach. We have young kids (elementary and middle school age)...and we LOVE the water. We want a waterfront home (under $550,000) so Lake Norman was a great choice - but then we love the beach too! We're considering Lynnhaven as there are lots of water inlets there and we'd be close to the beach...but not sure how good the schools are there. Charoltte, on the other hand, I've heard schools are excellent and it's a great place to raise a family...but there's no beach - but we'd live at Lake Norman...so...any thoughts as to which would be best for the family? We would work in Charlotte or Norfolk (have job prospects in both). Any opinions/advice would be GREATLY appreciated...tired of the DC fast pace, traffic and headaches!
I don't think you can get a beachfront home for $550k, you probably will need to spend somewhere approaching $1,000,000 to be on water. The west side of Lake Norman may offer you properties that are lower in cost though.
My husband and I are considering a move from Northern Va to either Charlotte (Lake Norman area) or VA Beach. We have young kids (elementary and middle school age)...and we LOVE the water. We want a waterfront home (under $550,000) so Lake Norman was a great choice - but then we love the beach too! We're considering Lynnhaven as there are lots of water inlets there and we'd be close to the beach...but not sure how good the schools are there. Charoltte, on the other hand, I've heard schools are excellent and it's a great place to raise a family...but there's no beach - but we'd live at Lake Norman...so...any thoughts as to which would be best for the family? We would work in Charlotte or Norfolk (have job prospects in both). Any opinions/advice would be GREATLY appreciated...tired of the DC fast pace, traffic and headaches!
We moved from Fredericksburg, VA 10 years ago (orginially from Dale City, grew up there). We love it down here. I think you will also, very similiar. The weather is a bit nicer, as well as the people (for the most part). Homes near Lake Norman are very nice, we thought about purchasing up there, but decided to stay closer to DH's office (4 miles). We did the commute from Fredericksburg to the Fort Belvoir area for way too long (leaving at 5:30am was getting old). Didn't want to get into the same situation (alot of growth down here). Schools are pretty good, they are a bit behind (compared to N.Va), we put our boys in Honors classes (AP also available at most schools). The west side of Lake Norman, I've heard is nice. It's about a 6 hour drive, which is well worth it to spend a long weekend driving around the area. As I said, we love it, a much better place to raise a family than Fredericksburg (surrounding area). Our boys are older teens, one is graduating from HS next weekend, and the other is finishing up 10th grade. They both went to cms schools and have received a great education.
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Originally Posted by Lizzy67
My husband and I are considering a move from Northern Va to either Charlotte (Lake Norman area) or VA Beach. We have young kids (elementary and middle school age)...and we LOVE the water. We want a waterfront home (under $550,000) so Lake Norman was a great choice - but then we love the beach too! We're considering Lynnhaven as there are lots of water inlets there and we'd be close to the beach...but not sure how good the schools are there. Charoltte, on the other hand, I've heard schools are excellent and it's a great place to raise a family...but there's no beach - but we'd live at Lake Norman...so...any thoughts as to which would be best for the family? We would work in Charlotte or Norfolk (have job prospects in both). Any opinions/advice would be GREATLY appreciated...tired of the DC fast pace, traffic and headaches!
If you love the beach and have the opportunity to live by one I would pick the beach. The lake is nice but it's not the beach.
Lake Norman isn't bad, but the chances of landing a waterfront home for $550k were gone many years ago. I looked 3 years ago and the best "waterfront" home I could find started at $600k and it wasn't really waterfront. It was "mud-front" and only at the higher pond levels. The rest of the time it was just crazy buggy because it literally had a mucky swamp in your backyard.
In order to get true main channel waterfront with a dock on LKN, you'd better be prepared for seven figures.
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