Coming to Wilmington from Maine (Wrightsville Beach, Topsail Beach: real estate market, 2014, rent)
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My family and I are interested in moving to Wilmington. My husband is in real estate and I work in family medicine. We have 2 elementary school aged kids and 2 dogs. We would like to be close to the beach or river since my husband surfs, I paddleboard and we have a Chesapeake Bay Retriever who lives on a river now and hates to be landlocked. Any ideas??? Probably will rent to start then buy in range 250-300,000.
My family and I are interested in moving to Wilmington.... Any ideas??? Probably will rent to start then buy in range 250-300,000.
Your plans are completely feasible, but one of you needs to tie down a job. Wilmington is between a river and the Intercoastal waterway along the ocean, so there are plenty of places for water sports.
You might also look at the answers to similar queries from the recent past. Many northerners have been attempting the same move, as Wilmington seems to be a desirable destination.
My family and I are interested in moving to Wilmington. My husband is in real estate and I work in family medicine. We have 2 elementary school aged kids and 2 dogs. We would like to be close to the beach or river since my husband surfs, I paddleboard and we have a Chesapeake Bay Retriever who lives on a river now and hates to be landlocked. Any ideas??? Probably will rent to start then buy in range 250-300,000.
Realtors were a dime a dozen in the Wilmington area during the housing boom...thankfully that has tapered off to the ones that actually like doing real estate. It's an interesting market because of folks relocating for all different types of reasons. Some of the jobs available now are with these large subdivisions trying to sell new homes. You may want to start by getting your medical job where you can and then your husband can find his place in the real estate market.
I heard Wrightsville Beach recently described as one of the best places to paddleboard in the US...and we know it is one of the better places to surf on the East Coast, so I would try and get as close to there as possible...maybe try the Holly Tree district for Elem School...or you could find something in your price range in Pine Valley, which has larger lots.
Hey follow Mainer! What part of Maine are you from? My husband moved down here a year and half ago with a job transfer, I followed about ten months later. We live in Hampstead. We looked at a lot of areas in and around Wilmington, but decided we liked the small town feel of Hampstead. We are just a short drive from Wilmington, and about 15 minutes from Topsail Beach.
Mentioning your Chessies put me in mind of the time several years ago when we found two Chesapeake Bay Retrievers wandering around our townhouse community on Topsail Island. They had tags with a phone number so we called the owner. They were from the mainland and had swum across the sound. The family had left the dogs alone for the afternoon in the yard and they got bored and decided to swim across to see what was going on on the Island. They are great dogs; having grown up by the Chesapeake, I have a fondness for them.
You may miss the availability of lobsters in Maine. Since we came here 2 years ago from Maryland, I have not seen lobster in the grocery store, not even frozen tails. There are plenty of good fresh shrimp, scallops and fish however.
Let's just say that in my paddle boarding experience ,
Wrightsville beach hardly fits in the top
ten best places in the US for paddle boarding.
There are times paddling at WB's Banks Channel that one takes a high risk
of getting run over by a speed boat.
Let's just say that in my paddle boarding experience ,
Wrightsville beach hardly fits in the top
ten best places in the US for paddle boarding.
There are times paddling at WB's Banks Channel that one takes a high risk
of getting run over by a speed boat.
Well...I guess it depends on your perspective...here is a perspective in terms of a recent SUP race...
Quote: " The Carolina Cup was named by Outside Magazine as one of the “not to miss” SUP races of 2014, and is the informal “Kick-off” to the SUP racing season in the US. In 2012, the Carolina Cup was the largest race on the East Coast with over 400 paddlers competing in the first day ofraces. In 2013, we had over 600!"
They call the course the "graveyard"...its the largest SUP race on the East Coast and is sponsored every year by the Blockade Runner resort. You would think they would schedule the largest SUP Race on the east coast at Wrightsville because it is one of the best places to SUP. Here is a video of the 2014 race...
Just because the largest cup race is scheduled in Banks channel does not mean it is the best place to
paddle board. that said , there are many places to paddle around here but getting to the ICW is
not always easy, not a lot of free or paid access.
We attempted for two days to go to check out the vendors and action/race
at the event but as hundreds, if not thousands others found out , there is not enough
parking on Wrightsville Beach. Event coordinators did not plan
any shuttle services , etc. Many people were put off by this and thinking about
the few parking spaces on the island it is a wonder that even all the participants
found parking.
This race is put on by a hotel , the Blockade Runner in WB and they obviously do a great
job advertising this venue. During the race here are of course boats that patrol the waters in order to keep all the crazy boaters dragging skiers and wake boarders but on a daily basis paddlers are left to fend for themselves due to no restrictions on speed in Banks Channel.
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