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ok ill remove summers.
mild winters are important but im ok with hot summers.
please help guys.
ive covered so many cities and none match up but im sure there are matching places.
You might even have to give up two of those. Cheap land, good schools (usually means high property taxes), near a city (usually drives up property values), picturesque (usually drives up property values), mild weather (usually drives up property values).
How about outside of Detroit? You can be within 30 minutes of the edge of the city (but maybe an hour and a half to the center, or more with traffic). Summers are warm and muggy, but not extremely hot. Winters and cold and snowy, but not bad compared with much of the country. Homeschool your kids? At least land is cheap there. You won't find cheap land just outside of any big city, nice or not.
I'd look along the North / South Carolina border region, closer to the mountains. Spartanburg, Greenville, etc all come to mind. Bit of a tough summer, but their winters are mild. And if you get closer to the mountains, your summers get more mild.
Good schools
30 minutes to Louisville, 1 hour to Lexington.
Picturesque bluegrass region of Kentucky with very cheap land if you look for it.
Winters are fairly mild with limited snow. Summers are hot and humid but not brutal by any means.
How big is a big city to you?
If it is a couple million metro, then look outside Raleigh, Atlanta, DC, maybe Louisville (not big enough?)
Check outside Leesburg VA, Hillsborough NC, between Atlanta and Athens GA and LaGrange KY.
Or outside Nashville, like near Franklin TN.
Or McMinnville OR, southwest of Portand.
Of the places you've checked, which were closest to right and why did they fail?
Last edited by NW Crow; 10-01-2018 at 09:09 PM..
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