Places for family to live with Crescent Hill job (Louisville: to rent, low crime)

[Wayfarer88]

My husband recently accepted a job offer to teach at a school in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Lousiville. We will be making around $45,000 and have two children, whom we homeschool. We plan to rent for a year, and then hopefully purchase a house.


We are looking for a reasonable commute for my husband (<half an hour, but some wiggle room there). Most of all we want a nice neighborhood to live in--the obvious things like low crime rates and child-friendly, but we are also hoping to be in a place with a small-town or slightly rural feel--the sort of place where we could own enough land for a garden, a few chickens, maybe a goat--but still have neighbors. If possible, it would be nice to live at the end of a bus line so that my husband could bus in to work and we could own only one car. Affordability is important here as well.


I don't know how realistic any of this is; I've never been to Louisville, so I'm hoping some of you folks could help point us in the right direction. Thanks very much!

[BurnInTheMil]

Originally Posted by Wayfarer88

My husband recently accepted a job offer to teach at a school in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Lousiville. We will be making around $45,000 and have two children, whom we homeschool. We plan to rent for a year, and then hopefully purchase a house.


We are looking for a reasonable commute for my husband (<half an hour, but some wiggle room there). Most of all we want a nice neighborhood to live in--the obvious things like low crime rates and child-friendly, but we are also hoping to be in a place with a small-town or slightly rural feel--the sort of place where we could own enough land for a garden, a few chickens, maybe a goat--but still have neighbors. If possible, it would be nice to live at the end of a bus line so that my husband could bus in to work and we could own only one car. Affordability is important here as well.


I don't know how realistic any of this is; I've never been to Louisville, so I'm hoping some of you folks could help point us in the right direction. Thanks very much!

Louisville is very affordable, but on a $45K salary, with 2 kids and a spouse to support, that's never going to be the easiest thing to do.

The good thing about Louisville & Southern Indiana, within 30 minutes allows you almost all areas around/within Louisville.

As far as affordable areas where you can have a few farm animals & a garden, that's tough and still be on a bus line. I would highly recommend Southern Indiana (Sellersburg, Memphis, Floyds Knobs, Georgetown) if you want a little bit of land and still want good affordability. You'd still be within 30 minutes (give or take) but the bus line going accords the bridge would be almost non-existent.

[cubedeathk]

Originally Posted by Wayfarer88

My husband recently accepted a job offer to teach at a school in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Lousiville. We will be making around $45,000 and have two children, whom we homeschool. We plan to rent for a year, and then hopefully purchase a house.


We are looking for a reasonable commute for my husband (<half an hour, but some wiggle room there). Most of all we want a nice neighborhood to live in--the obvious things like low crime rates and child-friendly, but we are also hoping to be in a place with a small-town or slightly rural feel--the sort of place where we could own enough land for a garden, a few chickens, maybe a goat--but still have neighbors. If possible, it would be nice to live at the end of a bus line so that my husband could bus in to work and we could own only one car. Affordability is important here as well.


I don't know how realistic any of this is; I've never been to Louisville, so I'm hoping some of you folks could help point us in the right direction. Thanks very much!

Yikes, I'd keep in mind that buses here are quite slow because they have a ridiculous amount of stops so anything involving a transfer is probably going to take over an hour one way which would make indiana unviable and basically anything else that isn't directly on the bus line, and also tarc is decent but I wouldn't trust it to get me to a job with a fixed starting time if I had a transfer. The buses don't really go to any of the small satellite towns and none of the cities in the snyder really have a small town or rural feel, at least anywhere near crescent hill. And the bus that goes along shelbyville road hits pretty much only areas where 45k is probably not going to buy a house for 4 people. So something has to bend here. Chickens are everywhere though and I think you can keep up to six. I'm not sure about goats I think you need an acre though. You might look at Lyndon or Clifton Heights (which is walkable to where he works probably; even Louisville's densest areas are not particularly dense so it's obviously not rural but not highly urban either), but anywhere within 30 minutes on a bus is going to be at the top end of your price range to unaffordable. The 19 bus also takes you pretty close to the northern part of Hikes Point where you may find something at the top of your price range.

If he were to drive I'd definitely say Indiana though.

[censusdata]

Crescent Hill is an upper middle class area in near the most high end shopping areas. If you want rural / semi rural it depends on your budget. Outer fringes of Jefferson Co, Oldham, Shelby are nice but a bit pricey. Indiana side would be good if your budget if you want the same thing for less many but possibly with $2 a day commuter tolls for some new bridges.

[BurnInTheMil]

Originally Posted by censusdata

Crescent Hill is an upper middle class area in near the most high end shopping areas. If you want rural / semi rural it depends on your budget. Outer fringes of Jefferson Co, Oldham, Shelby are nice but a bit pricey. Indiana side would be good if your budget if you want the same thing for less many but possibly with $2 a day commuter tolls for some new bridges.

Could also avoid tolls on the 64 bridge (Sherman Minton), and live in New Albany, Floyds Knobs or Georgetown