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Moved, and I Have Internets Again (Kinda)
glynor:
--- Quote from: Arindelle on April 25, 2016, 04:24:47 am ---ouch 1.5mbs my upload is 5x faster. Under 70mBs I get impatient. Do you have humanoid neighbors Glynor or just Moose ?! ;D
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My previous service was 50 down, 5 up (which was the best residential service offered via cable in my area). This DSL I have now... Is better than nothing, but only by a notch or two. I suppose at-least it isn't dial-up, so it could be worse.
And, yes, we have some human neighbors. But certainly more deer and coyotes than people. ;D
--- Quote from: Arindelle on April 25, 2016, 04:24:47 am ---Never though about "summer rentals" might be something I should look into.
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We actually got stupid-lucky on this place. Around here, it is pretty difficult to get a year-round rental with a lease. Most of them are only offered October - May, and then they rent them for the summer months at $1200-2500/wk. But, though a convenient accident, we managed to luck into this place for an extremely reasonable cost through October 1.
--- Quote from: astromo on April 25, 2016, 07:24:46 am ---glynor, major respect for doing a double move.
I wimped out last year when I moved from the apartment I'd been in for years to finally getting a house. Took the costly move of buying the new joint, cleared out the old place and then did the sale. As low stress as you can get. Also helped by a move less than half a mile.
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I'm not looking forward to the second move, for sure. Most of our stuff is still boxed up in storage, so that will be a bit more convenient, but we can't very well live with nothing (and with a 5-year-old) for months until everything is settled, so we still have a substantial portion to re-pack and move.
Buying anything new without first selling our existing abode just wasn't possible. We couldn't have covered the double-mortgage for long, and... Well, there's a house down the street from my former home that has been for sale for 3 years now. They have it priced too high, and we didn't, but still... We didn't know what was going to happen. Of course, as things go, when it happened, it happened pretty quickly.
Now, we have to decide, which is its own kind of pain. But, the whole point (my wife tells me daily) is to make things better, so we're trying. :) ;)
glynor:
--- Quote from: lepa on April 24, 2016, 11:50:01 am ---Cool. Staying in the same city?
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Hah! Maine doesn't really have "cities" (not in the conventional sense of the word). I suppose there's Portland, but most people here would argue that Portland isn't Maine, and is instead part of Massachusetts-North.
Reasonably close by. We're trying to upgrade the house a bit, get a better school district for our daughter (who is entering kindergarten this year), and get a bit closer to work. How close we get to those ideals depends entirely on how much in debt we decide to go.
There are some lovely 2-3 acre plots of land for sale right nearby my office for only $1.5-3 million. Downright reasonable compared to just a handful of years ago, but still a touch out of our price range. ::) ;D
glynor:
We closed on our new property today! That was a much longer road than we'd hoped, but it was worth it in the end. Next, we finally start building.
JimH:
Great! Congratulations! Do you have a view of Ireland?
Pictures?
glynor:
--- Quote from: JimH on July 29, 2016, 12:54:58 am ---Great! Congratulations! Do you have a view of Ireland?
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Thanks! And definitely not. No photos yet. Right now, it is just a "view" of trees. Some of them are lovely, but there are a LOT of them.
In the end, we could not find a home that would meet our needs, so we're building. So, the lot is a nice 3 acre plot that is currently just wooded. We'll be digging a hole soon (almost certainly with dynamite), though. There might be pictures then!
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