Housing Location Help

[k28mas]

For about 250,000 you can get 1,100 sq feet of house in Garden Oaks. The nice inner/near city neighborhoods are not cheap anymore. Years ago they were, but not now.

[Shell467]

Hi, we are considering a move to the outskirts of nashville. I have looked at MtJ, lincoya bay, leipers fork, and a few others similar to that. I a Nationally certified medical assistant and my husband is a parts specialist at Oreilys . He also is a liscensed mechanic . We do have children in middle school and high school so we are looking for a safe community along work a good school system . Can anyone advise on this as well as the job situation down there. So. Illinois just doesn't have good jobs anymore and it is so expensive here. Thanks for all your help!! Shelley

[EasilyAmused]

Originally Posted by cpfoutz

Wow...I thought I was setting the pricepoint high in saying 250k...what is the limitation? Are there not many good school districts? Would it be typical for people to send their children to private schools?

In tooling around Trulia, it was looking like most houses are under $200k...

Yeah, the problem is housing close in with a good public school district gets very pricey. There are tons of houses under 200k within the city, just finding one zoned to good schools K-12 is impossible...this is why you have all the burbs 35-90 minutes outside the city.

It's typical to either move to the burbs, or go ahead and use private when a certain school isn't very good, or win the occupational lottery and move into a city neighborhood zoned to the better schools.

[Nena2007]

You can move to the suburbs and get what you need. Katy is a great option, South of I-10 good schools, lots of good housing developments, but older houses are hard to come by. Some areas of Sugar Land will give you the same thing, but you are looking at 45 minutes to an hour commute which is pretty common.

Houston is a booming city and the nice older houses are mostly inside the loop and will cost you a pretty penny.

Good luck in your search!

[modster]

I agree with the previous post that under $250,000 will buy you basically a two-bedroom tear down facing a busy street in Garden Oaks. Besides that, is the middle and High school there ones that people would describe as "great?"