Moving to Chapel Hill (appliances, house, water heater)

[vlakarl]

Hi everyone!
We are moving from a suburb of NYC to Chapel Hill.
I am looking to get some sense of average costs of:

1. Utilities (gas/electric)
2. Water/sewer
3. Cable

We are a family of 4 (mom, dad, 2 girls)

Looking in Lake Hogan Farms & Wexford...probably a 3,300 sq ft. sized house.

Any info would be really helpful.
Thanks!

[CHTransplant]

I live in a comparably sized house in Chapel Hill.

Gas/Electric - of course, this depends on which appliances use which, and how hot/cold you like it in the house. I have gas heat, but electric water heaters. Gas bills are high in the winter, electric bills are high in the summer. My totals are about $400/mo. (I heat to 70 in the winter and cool to 76 in the summer.)

Water - in the winter months, our bill is about $50-$60 a month. In the summer, when our irrigation system is on, it's about $120 a month.

Cable - I have a cable/internet/phone package that is about $180/month (I think mine was, until recently, called "Digipic 1000"). Of course, there are all kinds of cable packages. You can find Time Warner's pricing on their web site.

[vlakarl]

Thanks CHTransplant, for the realistic picture of potential expenses. They are a bit higher than I expected...I'm glad I asked!

[frogandtoad]

Go to the utility websites, look at the rates, and multiply by them by the amount of gas, electric you use now.

Someone else's utility bills are not going to mean much--too many variables.

[vlakarl]

also some good info...so who provides gas/electric to Chapel Hill? i can find the website from there.
thanks!

[CHTransplant]

Gas = PSNC
Electric = Duke Energy
Water = OWASA (http://www.owasa.org/home/index.aspx - broken link)
Cable = Time Warner Cable (http://www.timewarnercable.com/carolinas/ - broken link)