Suburbs/Subdivisions where houses are NOT side by side?

[BoBromhal]

you won't have any issues finding a nice home with reasonable privacy in the triangle unless you limit yourself by age of home to something newer, and especially if you also limit geography to "Cary" or "Morrisville"

[RaleighLass]

Check out the North Hills area of Raleigh towards Glenwood and Glen Eden Ave/Rd. And North Ridge Country Club. Also, at the very north end of Six Forks, there are some older and newer homes on large lots. Where will your office be?

[Funky Chicken]

Older sections of Sunset Ridge and the back of Jamison Park come to mind as well, or head out Penny Road toward Blaney Bluffs/Enchanted Oaks.

[Thr3stripe]

Look at some N. Raleigh developments north of I540. Parker Falls, Ethans Glen, Chatsworth, to name a few.

[NYC2RDU]

Originally Posted by LI9045

Thank you guys for this list!

I can go higher if needed, cost wise. Taxes are a lot lower down there and I have no kids, so using mortgage calculators online I could probably go up to 650K before I start to feel uncomfortable.

I'm surprised that my budget isn't considered high enough for the area. I see so many huge homes for much less than 500K, are these subdivisions that much more pricey than the others?

I live in North Raleigh on a 1.1 acre lot. My house is just around 3k square feet, four bedrooms, three full baths and a ton of bonus room styled space (though really more of an addition than a space over the garage). I can go literally months at a time without seeing my neighbors and can only occasionally hear them outside (and there are kids on both sides). I paid $345k for my house and can buy a similarly configured one in my neighborhood for just a shade over that.

So for my neighborhood you can afford two homes with your budget, it's puhlenty high enough.