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Just going to drop off this article here.
“purchasing a “cheap old house” in a small town or rural area is becoming an increasingly alluring pathway for some millennials.”‘
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This is so real. I moved from California to Illinois for college and have just decided to stay in my college town. The average house is 70k, theres a whole network of thrift shops and auctions near me, and its just a quieter place without big freeways and traffic. I love it.
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I think this is going to happen more and more as jobs become Work From Home. The pandemic has really forced a lot of company’s hand and I think they, meaning companies, are going to see this as saving them money on renting office space. This will allow employees to work from wherever since they no longer have to drive into the office every day. And many people will choose rural areas because that will be the only place they can actually buy a house for a reasonable price.
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I moved to a rural area a couple of years ago and bought a non fixer upper and have never looked back.
I really thought I was going to have to move out of state, but it wasn’t so. There are hidden communities all over this country that are very reasonably priced. My new place is only about 110 miles away from my old place.
I couldn’t be happier and encourage anyone considering this, to start researching the small and forgotten towns close by. I think you’ll be surprised at what is available.
Unfortunately, with the pandemic, working from home and the continuous expansion of internet availability, I think more and more people will be moving to the country and gradually driving up prices. I’m already seeing it here.
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My last employment was with IBM, one of the innovators of work from home. In 2006 I moved to rural Missouri, a small town of 1100, and worked from home then retired in 2015. My motivation for the move was being closer to family, especially the grandchildren, and looking ahead to retirement on the horizon (I was 57 at the time).
Small towns have changed so much over the years, what with internet, satellite tv, online shopping, and small town chains like Caseys, Dollar General, etc. I lived in a very rural area in the 1970’s and there wasn’t anything within 25 miles open past 5 during the week or noon on Saturday, remote shopping consisted of ordering from the mail-order catalogs, and we only got a few TV channels. Gas stations sold gas and maybe had a soda machine and a few snacks for sale, but no extended hours.
We are seeing new families moving to our little town, its all for the good in my opinion. There is a transition period and habit adjustment, but I believe they will find out it is a worthwhile improvement over large cities, with less stress.
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This is great perspective from both Old Dad and So Cal Joe. Land/houses is so much cheaper once you hit 100 miles from an urban area because you get outside the “commute zone”.
We also thought living in a small rural town would mean a life of depriving ourselves of culture, etc. Instead, we’ve had to learn to find culture in non-obvious places or make our own.
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My primary cheap small town entertainment: I have 3 grandchildren in school here, all very active in (and very good at) various sports, I love watching them play. Right now Karli (15), and Kady (12) are playing volleyball. Kady also runs cross country. Brycen plays both flag and tackle football. All 3 will be starting basketball soon. Over 65 admission is free for home games, I will be going to Karli’s VB game tonight.
My girlfriend lives in a KC suburb, we usually swap weekends so I get my fill of a more urban life twice a month and that’s plenty. Every 6 weeks or so we will go to one of the many wineries within a few hundred miles and stay in a bed and breakfast. Oh, yes, Missouri has a lot of wineries.
Not much COVID in this area, there’s hardly a mask to be seen in my town but I keep one in the car for when I go somewhere else where it is required.
It’s a great life. Not what I expected for this time in my life, but still great.
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“Land/houses is so much cheaper once you hit 100 miles from an urban area because you get outside the “commute zone”.” (Jay)
House prices in Norfolk going up because of people fleeing London. I heard from a friend who was on holiday there, and who did a bit of desultory house-hunting, that the estate agents (realtors) are getting interest from people buying houses to let to people fleeing London…
I suspect that all the interest is in properties situated near the coast (not on the coast as the coast in certain areas is moving inland! e.g. the lost city of Dunwich) Inland it’s all turkey farms, disused WW2 airfields and damp patches. To the north, herds of pigs and sullen heaps of sugar beet.
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