There are lots of variables in Salem. I have been here
for almost 20 years, and live in Southeast Salem.
Depending on what you want for housing, your
particular age group, you can find most anything
you want here in housing accomodations.
If you are older, there is an excellent gated manufactured
housing park, Terrace Lake, on Robin's Lane. The
park rent includes trash, cable, water, sewer and
property taxes. The last I heard it is about $408 a month.
You don't own the land under the homes.
If you are older, there is across from Robin's Lane,
a new Senior Center, on Fairway.
There are also nice condominiums across from the
center, and you don't need to feel you are too old
or too young...lol
This complex has younger than older people,
lol
and it fronts on the golf course.
The last one I read that sold there was under $150,000.
zillow.com can give you some of the selling prices.
I am not sure if it is Battlecreek Estates or not, though.
Two of them sold just recently.
If you are older, there is next to that complex,
Battlecreek Commons, which is a secure community of
condominiums, with 2 pools, tennis court, saunas
home owners' association fees that include trash,
sewer, cable, insurance, water, exterior maintenance,
security, landscaping, repair and painting exteriors,
for under $315 a month. There were a couple of condos
for sale in there last month.
Moving along Fairway, there are other homes
on the left, also gated, and on Rees Hill, manufactured
homes to the left, up 20th Street, up to Nomad
and Navaho, an adult park, I think, and to the
right, on Rees Hill, there is Cinnamon Hill with
higher priced homes over $275,000. Not many for sale in there.
But the area is lovely...
Continuing along Rees Hill towards Sunnyside, you
have another community of homes on the right,
nicely landscaped, quiet neighborhoods.
On Sunnyside, there is the VERY affluent Creekside
Estates, and Kooskooske.. (*not sure I spelled that
right..) this is just north from Rees Hill.
If you go across the Marion Street Bridge in
downtown Salem, there is West Salem, which is
growing like Topsy, and not very well, traffic-wise.
The commute across the bridge can be horrendous,
especially one time when someone was trying to jump
off the bridge... traffic was held up for HOURS.
That doesn't happen often, though, but accidents DO.
Another small town near Aumsville is Turner.. literally
a curve in the road.. but people are moving there.
Outside of Salem is Sublimity, a pastoral area,
Stayton, which needs some cosmetic work
and Silverton, which is quaint but can be congested
at times.
South Commercial in Salem is becoming as congested
as the to-be-avoided-at-all-costs Lancaster Drive.
There is Walmart, Big Lots, Winco, Safeway, many
fast food places, and the infamous Kuebler Ave.
which is going to become a developer's paradise in
a few months... plans are being discussed for
a theatre, a huge mall, thousands of new homes.. by an
ABQ developer. When all is said and done, it will be
I-15 in Escondido, CA all over again.
(*could be that Kuebler will be made into a few more
lanes.. but until then....
)
The people who are cashiers, gas pump servicemen,
firemen, policemen, waiters, waitresses, all are
a friendly lot. I often look at them and think that
surely they aren't the ones I see driving behind,
beside and past me on a daily basis.
It makes me wonder who ARE the drivers here, as they
are not very up on the the rules of the road.. i.e.
running red lights, signalling, tailgating.
Last week the traffic cops did a saturation on Kuebler and gave out
a good many tickets.. 28 were given out, some people
were arrested, and one had drugs and another had a warrant
on him, and this was during a 3 hour period.
It could have been easily another few hundred tickets.
I guess you can see that there is a problem with drivers in Salem.
The hospital is excellent as is the Urgent Care Center in
Keizer.. which is associated with Salem Clinic on Capitol.
The paramedics are super ... I know, as I had an occasion
to be rescued by them a few years back.
Salem was a little town that grew and grew... and is still growing.
It has lots of growing pains but maybe someone in the
city government will rectify this in the future.
Right now the Cherry and Plum trees are in full bloom
along with the daffodils, primroses, and it is a pretty
sight to remember when Autumn/Winter rains fall
incessantly.
(which makes me think.. your brother-in-law should find
out if that creek he is going to buy land on, ever overflowed
in the past... about 14 years or so ago, we had flooding in
Salem and the creeks DID rise... Robin's Lane and Fairway
were under water and closed off... cows drowned in Tilamook,
and the Willamette River rose way above safety levels.
Homes in central Salem, on the creeks, river, had damage
from the unexpected water rising.
He should find out about the history of that creek...)
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