Where Is The Best Place To Live In The USA?

[silkhope]

WOW $139,000 for 30 acres?? You couldn't get 10 wooded acres around here for that... Sheesh...

 

[OffSpring]

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Is that not the case if I wanted to move to the USA?

 

[Southern28Chick]

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Depends on where in NC. I almost bought 20 wooded acres outside of Franklinton for 29,000. It was so cheap because the land didn't perk but that's no big deal. Someone else beat us to it though.

 

[Southern28Chick]

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Is that not the case if I wanted to move to the USA?

Nope they let anyone just walk into this country and work and live. Doesn't matter if you're legal or not. Another problem in NC...all over the country really.

 

[speckledhen]

Offspring, when I said I'd rather have someone from the UK here than someone ELSE from Florida, I did mean that. My own place may be for sale some day soon. To give you an example of the area here in Fannin County, a mountain county: My taxes are extremely low here, my neighbors are nice, if somewhat elderly (I think I'm the youngest one here) and the scenery is lovely. I have a cottage-style cabin with wrap porches sitting on a high hill/small mountain with fall and winter views of all the surrounding mountains, including NC on one side. I have gardens, a small raised bed orchard, beginning vineyard, storage buildings, nice chicken coops and total privacy in summer when the leaves are on the trees. It is a nice place on 5.37 wooded acres with taxes on the original home and 2.22 acres of $287/yr plus we own another 3.15 acres adjoining me that I currently have on the market. The taxes on those two lots together amt to only about $68/yr. In today's market here, it would probably sell with the entire acreage and house for about $250K or so. Fancy cabins in "Upscale Cabin Developments", the current buzzword phrase, are selling in the upper 200's to the 500's on only one acre with tons of restrictions, meaning NO FARM ANIMALS. Not so on my little hill. So, I like where I am except when I see a sea of Florida tags and know those people are using this county, paying no income tax to GA even though they may live here most of the year. That burns me up!
No ill will directed toward you! Welcome to the forum!

 

[nccountrygirl]

Cynthia, you have a lovely place, a slice of heaven. I'd love to have a place as pretty as yours with no noisy neighbors beside you to peak out of their blinds and watch every thing you do, oh and did I mention planting azalea bushes a 1:30 in the morning. The family that lives on one side of me are weird, the wife lived there when we bought the house, she told DH she was getting a BMW ( he thought nice car ) she meant ( Black man working ) and work him she does.

 

[speckledhen]

 

[2mnypets]

Galesburg, Illinois, in Knox county, is 41 miles South of Davenport, Iowa (center to center) and 154 miles SW of Chicago, Illinois. As of the year 2005 census, 33,706 people lived in Galesburg. Average real estate tax for the area is $896.00

Closest Weather Station in Galesburg
Distance 0.7 miles
Jan Temp 14 to 29 F
Apr Temp 40 to 61 F
Jul Temp 65 to 85 F
Oct Temp 43 to 63 F
Annual Precip 37.2 inches
Average humidity during year 80%
100% humidity during July & August

Ancestry Percent
Other (often includes Hispanic and African American) 18.1%
German 17.4%
US/American 12.6%
Irish 11.5%
Swedish 11.3%
English 9.1%
Italian 3.4%
French (except Basque) 2.1%
Scotch-Irish 2.1%
Norwegian 1.7%
Scottish 1.6%
Dutch 1.6%
Polish 1.1%
European 0.9%
African 0.7%
Danish 0.5%
Welsh 0.4%
Croatian 0.4%
Swiss 0.4%
Belgian 0.3%
British 0.3%
Scandinavian 0.2%
Hungarian 0.2%
Yugoslavian 0.2%
Russian 0.2%
Czech 0.2%

We have Discovery Depot Children's Museum, Galesburg Railroad Museum, Carl Sandburg Historic Site, Old Main Knox College (where the Lincoln/Douglas debate took place), Knox County Courthouse, Civic Art Center, Orpheum Theatre, Stockdale Soldier Citizen Museum, Central Congregational Church and the Reagan Trail. We personally live out in the country roughly 6-7 miles from town and our closest neighbor is a mile away. There are homes out in the country that have woodland all around. They run around $91,000.00 If you are curious you can check out the town at www.galesburg.org Don't know if this is what you were looking for. We have no coastlines directly around us (except for Chicago) but we have low crime rate and people still wave to each other when you pass in your vehicles.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

I forgot to mention that in the midwestern US, there's the Great Lakes - fresh water coastline and beautiful countryside, nice polite citizens, and more farms than here in Massachusetts. I bet Ann Arbor, Michigan would be a great place to live.

 

[Frozen Feathers]

I say Maine, if you are not concerned with ever trying to find employment.

The positives:
The land is beautiful, the ocean is close, we are 85% wooded.

For under $400k you can live wherever you want, even right on the ocean!

I have 12 acres, am an hour from the coast, 15 minutes form the 2nd largest "city" and 30minutes from the biggest. We have 12 acres of field and woods, a 3 bedroom home, a 2 story 2 car garage and a another 3 car garage that has been modified into a barn. My back property is bordered by a river and it is beautiful! All for around 100k

Traveling is always by car, though we are getting Amtrak in limited areas and do have bus and taxi service in some of the larger cities. Crime is low! Fall is beautiful. Summers mild, we rarely reach 100 degrees F. Spring is unpredictable and Winter can be both harsh and wonderful.

The negatives:
Culture is non-existent. A lot of cookie cutter restaurants and big retailer's, unless you are on the coast near route 1, somehow they are managing to keep the Wal-marts out!.

Work is hard to find, but we are growing.

You pretty much have to drive everywhere unless you live right in downtown Portland or Lewiston.
Snow is inevitable, so if you don't like snow, well not the state for you.