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Location: Ocala, FL
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I love my current home and neighborhood. My home is well within city limits but has lots of trees and not clear cut. Feels like I still live out in an rural area but close to everything.
Moved to a more affordable area after my daughter graduated from high school. Had lived where I was previously because I was a divorced mother working in the city and needed a town with good schools and proximity to my mother for my daughter to have a place to go after school. That was my hometown. I could not afford to buy a house in that area, though, so I rented a single-family house.
Upon her graduation from high school, I no longer needed to be there for those reasons, so I moved sixty miles south to an area from which I could still commute to my job but where it was possible for me to purchase a condo (or a small house, I looked at both options, ended up with a condo.)
Two years and change. Bought it as a foreclosure that needed work. Life didn’t turn out how we planned so we’re selling it and moving to another place in town. Nice house for someone, just not us! New place is tranquil and relaxing. We’ll stay for a year then hopefully find and buy our “forever or until the kid graduates college†home. Lol.
We've been here almost 20 years. It's a custom/semi-custom house. We originally built this same/similar house in a Chicago suburb. Husband was growing weary of suburban life and the cost of living there. We decided to move back to our home state and our college town, but we still loved our house. We ended up on 33 acres, mostly wooded, about 15 minutes from town and built the same house. We made a few changes to the original house plan and upgraded to all brick, finished the walk-out basement during the build, and added a pool the first summer we lived here. The town has lots of great restaurants and the kind of entertainment one would expect to find in Big10 college town.
The house is way too big for two us, but every time we think about moving we realize just how special the land we live on is. It can't be replicated. It's a beautiful place all year with the woods surrounding us and providing a lot of privacy.
We've especially appreciated the weekend "staycations" around the pool during this pandemic.
The other reason we don't sell is that values have increased enough in twenty years that we'd have to spend more than we owe on our mortgage to find and acceptable house.
We have been here 19 years. We've stayed because we love the area. We looked at moving closer to work but could never find another neighbourhood like this. Over the years we have fixed the house up just the way we like it. Now we have absolutely no desire to move and have to fix up another house.
In my home now for over 25 yrs. - became widowed - do not love the house (he was in it already) - just waiting to pay off mortgage and decide although I love my neighborhood and the area, cannot keep up w/the upkeep necessary.
Moved from Atlanta to the Denver area about 7 years ago due to my job. Got 1/2 the house for twice the price.
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