Wheeling, Charleston or Huntington

[bls5555]

Originally Posted by scorpy01

You might want to consider the Wheeling area, rather than Wheeling. I like the counties to the north and south of Wheeling. Brooke County to the north has excellent schools, including a top notch fitness center at the high school which is available to all residents, free of charge. You'll easily find homes in your price range. To the south is Marshall County with some really beautiful older homes. It isn't as convenient to Pittsburgh as Brooke County is, though.

Do you have any zip codes or town names I could search for other than Wheeling?

[harborlady]

bls555 as far as real estate goes I'm certain you can find ample choices for a fixer upper in that price range for any one of these cities. I think your decision should weight more toward minimizing driving times to wherever your business destinations are known. Taking hop flights or driving? The northern parts of WV see more snowfall than the southern parts, particularly on the far eastern side of the state. See a growing zone map from Dept of Agriculture, you'll see what I mean. Charleston and Huntington have their own micro climate. Winter driving in Mountainous region is a whole other math to figure out.
City-data statistics site can measure out distances and populations for you as well- handy tool. Planning on more airport travel than not you can go to a website like travelocity and experiment booking to be able to judge which would be more convenient. Sometimes flight paths are just plain goofy-- I have no clue how they can justify flying from NYC to DC in order to get to chicago as the most economical way. For them maybe, but not me. I've not needed the use of charleston's airport yet but I hear it's decent because it serves the capitol. I've also heard good things about huntington's airport, but no clue about wheeling.

[harborlady]

PS the zip codes you were looking for can also be had at the city-data statistics site as well. Good luck!

[scorpy01]

Originally Posted by bls5555

Do you have any zip codes or town names I could search for other than Wheeling?

Sure. To the north of Wheeling, try 26070 (Wellsburg), 26037 (Follansbee), 26030(Beech Bottom). To the south, 26031 Benwood), 26040 (McMechen), 26041 (Moundsville), 26038 (Glen Dale).

[SteelersFan09]

I would visit all three first. Wheeling is a very different place than Huntington or Charleston. Not saying it's better or worse, just different. I went to Marshall and lived in Huntington for 4 years and really enjoyed it and grew up in Wheeling. Wheeling always feels like Pittsburgh-lite to me, whereas Huntington has a little more of a southern feel to it. Both aren't bad places to live though. I'm not familiar with Charleston enough to give my take on it.