Job near Richfield where to live? (St. Paul, Bloomington: rent, how much, houses)

[A&T&C]

I posted on here before that my husband may be getting a job near Richfield and we wanted to live in Hudson WI (where family is) but we do not want too long of a commute so looking at other places to live. We would like to still be as close to Hudson as possible, somewhere with good schools, and safe. Also we do not make a lot of money so would never be able to afford a 400,000 home. Any ideas??? Thank you so much.

[nick is rulz]

Why not look in Richfield? Any commute on 94 heading west is very difficult, and the closer you are to the city, the better. Even still, Hudson is only 40 minutes away so you're still close to family

[golfgal]

The nice thing about Minnesota is you can live in one town and go to school through open enrollment in another. One area to look into is South St. Paul. The schools there are not the best but the West St. Paul/Mendota Heights schools are great and it is a pretty easy commute to Richfield via 62 (when that construction is done).

Farmington and Rosemount are options as well. You could find a house in the $250,000 range in both areas, Rosemount schools are tops in the state, Farmington schools are not bad either. The commute to Richfield is about 20 minutes (again, when 62 construction is done but even then Richfield is before the worst of the construction).

[Minnehahapolitan]

Richfield is going way downhill, I would rather buy a house in Phillips. I don't know which you want to live closer to. If work, I would look in the southside of Mpls. proper or Bloomington. Mpls. will have some great old bungalows from the twenties and thirties. Bloomington is inner-suburban and has ramblers from the fifties and sixties. Both are conventient to shopping, airport, metro area. If you want to be closer to Wisc., look in Stillwater, (old milling town, great old houses) Woodbury (new, suburban subdivisions) or Northern Dakota Co. (I'm don't know a whole lot about that area)

[Lindenin]

You say you can't afford $400,000 -- how much can you afford? That is an important piece of this puzzle.

[A&T&C]

Well for right now we will just rent and will hopefully buy in a few years. My husband is a teacher so we will not have a whole lot to spend. We are kind of looking at Woodbury area right now but would love info about different options seeing as we are not from MN.

[golfgal]

Woodbury to Richfield would be an ok commute but there are much better options closer to Richfield. Woodbury is probably my least favorite suburb. I just don't like it and I can't really put a finger on why. Personally I would look into Eagan, Apple Valley, Rosemount, West St. Paul, West Bloomington before I would go to Woodbury.

[arvid1985]

i would have to agree. getting as close to richfield would be wise. anything close to corporate Best Buy is just nuts anyway for traffic. Nice thing about richfield is most properties have huge lots. going to hudson wouldn't be too bad. less than a hour

[movin'on]

I lived in the Woodlake area of Richfield (73rd street and Lyndale) area. It was really nice with some really interesting houses. I don't know what houses cost there now (some were for sure pricey back then), but we sold ours in 95 for only 118K. Just a thought.