Hello Everyone,
We are coming back to the US, which will happen in 2011. We are not looking to settle down right away, since we are taking our 4x4 expedition truck with us and want to travel the USA first. Once we have finshed our traveling we want to find the perfect spot for us.
First of a little about us, we are a Familie with 2 kids (3.5 & 0.5 years old at the time) and our Dog. We are not new to the US, have already lived in Las Vegas, Florida and I was born & raised some in NJ. Though the last couple years we lived in Europe, pretty much 50/50 between Germnay and Sweden. Just this ain’t our cup of Tea here, wrong country
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We don’t want to move every couple years (like we have in the past), so we are doing lots of online research and once on the road we’ll be inspecting our future location very carefully, before we lock in. Then this shall be it, where our Kids grow up and where we call it HOME.
We have a longer List of expectation to our future home and do believe WV could be it. Here our list:
- 3/4 bedroom home, 4th would be used as office
- large lot min 5 acres, better 10+
- secluded location
- within 40-50min to a larger town/city
- a small town nearby (5-10 miles) for school and the basic needs
- All in a price range up to 150K, lower is always nice
Well the perfect place is pretty easy to find, but the suroundings have to fit also. We are not into hunting, but have so many other things we like to do. Like Boating (river/lake nearby ~ 60mins) , biking, hiking, sking and so much more. Weather is important also, after having a very cold Winter here (minus 13 to 22 degrees and a seen record of minus 33) that was a little much. After checking out most towns in WV it seems to be around 15-20 degress in the winter as a average. Which is great, lots of snow but not freezing cold.
The summers seem to be about 80+ degrees in the July/August, with some humidty. My wife loves it warm, sick and tired of the rainy / cold summers from here. With those Temps. I do believe it is safe to say, swimming is possible in lakes around the area.
I have read tons of Post here in the Forum, which some people seem to get a little lonely with the small town living. We won’t have that problem, since we are living in a really small town at the time (Total Pop. Of 18, yeah that is with us 4 ), so more Cows and Elks then People
Our nearest Pizza Place (can’t really call it that, European don’t know how to make a real Pizza) is about 80 miles away, which also gives the distance for reasonable shopping, drugstore or anything else.
Now we have not said WV is it yet, but for sure it is moving up the list. For some reason the area around Huntington is standing out of the crowd.
Now we do have some questions you Guys and Gals hope you could help us with.
1. Any rural School districts that stand out of the crowd ? Bad or Good
2. Are our Temperture expectation realistic ?
3. Any restrictions on the lakes for kind/speed/size of Boat?
4. Are their Yard sales, Flea markets, Action Houses in the area (we like to find things)
5. Can someone recommend a Real Estate Website which lets people search the MLS (realtor.com does not work with our IP)
6. How high are property Taxes in the area. Can't seem to find any information on that
For now that shall be enough. If anyone has questions or needs help, just ask.
Have to get the kids into bed now.
Mike, Nikki & Kids
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