Is now a good time to buy in RI? (Providence: homes, high school)
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Couple of wrong turns in this life though and I'd be in a single-wide below the Mason Dixon with a wife beater and a pit bull. And even still, I never say never.
Right. A couple of wrong turns..... or bad breaks. Many, if not most of us, were born on third base. It's good to understand the circumstances of those who weren't.
Then how come the housing supply is so limited and expensive? If everyone is moving out, it should be plentiful and cheap like WV.
Or maybe the 2020 census was just really bad.
It’s the density. The number of occupants per housing unit keeps declining. My town built a bunch more of housing units over the last decade but the population declined slightly. School enrollment is down.
Anywhere coastal, more of the housing stock is now part time residents. My house was always full time residents until I bought it. I used it as my summer house for more than a decade and wasn’t a resident. I know a bunch of houses around me with similar change of use. It used to be that the only houses that sat empty in the winter were in the gated summer communities or retired snowbirds who did the Florida tax game.
You folks should go check out Burrillville some time.
What's going on in Burrillville? Is that one of RI's most up and coming areas or more like one of the places best to avoid investing in any real estate?! Close to the MA border anyway.
What's going on in Burrillville? Is that one of RI's most up and coming areas or more like one of the places best to avoid investing in any real estate?! Close to the MA border anyway.
Can't comment on the place as a real estate investment. But let's just say if you hear the banjos comin, ya wanna keep on runnin...
What's going on in Burrillville? Is that one of RI's most up and coming areas or more like one of the places best to avoid investing in any real estate?! Close to the MA border anyway.
Does anyone actually go to Burrillville? I’ve been near it on 146 headed towards Worcester and 101 headed towards Hartford.
I looked it up and it’s more affluent than I was expecting. $96k median household income. 77% owner-occupied housing. Population 16,000 which is more than I was expecting. Very white. Only 25% of adults with college degrees. I forget that Rhode Island is so small that it’s only 30 minutes to Providence.
I looked it up and it’s more affluent than I was expecting. $96k median household income. 77% owner-occupied housing. Population 16,000 which is more than I was expecting. Very white. Only 25% of adults with college degrees. I forget that Rhode Island is so small that it’s only 30 minutes to Providence.
The demographic information on the town sums it up. If any town in RI channels WV, it's probably Burrillville. It was never part of Rhode Island's aspiring Italian immigration pattern northwest out of Providence (Providence to N. Prov,/Johnston to Scituate/Glocester). To a lesser extent the town of Foster was skipped also. Much of it still settled by an unusual mix of descendants of Swamp Yankees & educated commuters to Providence (and even BOS).
Well those poor, uneducated white boys ain't shooting and killing each other. Burrilville is safe. Very safe for its size. Safer than the majority of surrounding towns, and much, much safer than Providence. It's safe. And in 2023, this ain't nothing.
Last edited by PureBoston; 02-06-2023 at 05:28 AM..
Does anyone actually go to Burrillville? I’ve been near it on 146 headed towards Worcester and 101 headed towards Hartford.
Don't forget that Wright's Farm is in Burrillville (Harrisville), and most every RIer has been there.
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Originally Posted by GeoffD
I looked it up and it’s more affluent than I was expecting. $96k median household income. 77% owner-occupied housing. Population 16,000 which is more than I was expecting. Very white. Only 25% of adults with college degrees. I forget that Rhode Island is so small that it’s only 30 minutes to Providence.
Realistically it's well over 30 minutes to Providence, especially the farther reaches of the town. But it does have a mix of local swamp yankee types and affluent commuters who bought nice homes on acreage. You also get some Woonsocket white flight, and urban "refugees" or people trying to fly under the radar. Kind of typical for ruralish towns in western RI, Central MA and NE CT.
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