Oh they are doing that here too. Apparently, no one wants yards now so they can play on the weekends and not have to do yard work. Sorry to offend the younger guys! Condo and apartment bldg has sky-rocketed. Prices too! Houses where our DD lives are half as much as our area. It’s crazy! I am not paying $300,000 for a house. We are too close to retirement.
We had a choice to move into a completely brand new home that was beautiful. Now the bedrooms were a tad small (not the master), but the yard was maybe 1/3 of an acre or less. Our home is in an older but not completed development where all the homes are custom as opposed to being made by one builder. The properties are bigger. We have almost an acre. That was the selling point for dh. He wanted land.
North Carolina is building like mad. If you look at road atlases from 5 years ago and compare them to now, there has been a huge population increase around all the major cities. I just wonder what will happen with your taxes with all the road construction and new developments.
It is unreal how much is happening! Go up most likely. I just hope it just doesn’t get too bad!
We want to move and have more land too.
Oh gosh! Well I won’t be buying any of those soon. The square footage of those places is less than my house and costs 10x as much!
adorable!
And just when you figure it out the calendar changesThanks for this! I’m glad your kids had a great experience! I’m going to think about your comment whenever I start to doubt. It’s about having fun, improving in sports you love, and meeting and spending time with new friends. It’s a lot of time, but I don’t think it feels like a lot of time to the kids themselves. Looking back on my own youth, I know I was busy, but I’d never regret it.
I’m happy that we decided not to do the summer training with the club though, he worked with a personal trainer, but only 2-4 hours per week (minus 1 while at camp), and better times of day than the training was.. it was a great break, and T is excited for the Fall season. I’m mostly worried about my own time management
I don’t think I mentioned it, but he didn’t end up trying out for a baseball team last month. I had to put my foot down there. He’ll still play baseball, but just for the regular school team, not select, at least not this upcoming year. There are kids who do select baseball and select soccer at the same time, but it’s one more night of practice that we just can’t add. Baseball is also a sport where I feel like he won’t fall behind as he would if he didn’t play competitive soccer. He’ll still work with a pitching coach over the winter, and my dad works with him a lot on baseball too.
We’re livin’ and learnin’ how to manage a calendar over here.
Around the Raleigh, Cary, Durham area it is crazy. There is apparently a straight line road from the north to central NC. Damn Yankees, messing everything up. Taxes around here are still low, because there is a bigger population to support all the infrastructure. I swear that more money is spent around here for flowering plants, trees and rose bushes then some states spend on highways. I remember up north charity groups selling small bunches of daffodils because you never saw many of them sticking up through the snow. Here, entire interchanges are just big fields of daffodils. Many more things are available with increasing populations, however, you are stuck with the people. That is the downside.
I totally agree!
Never buy a house in Mexico lol, you're going to have nightmares about renovations (most of the houses are white brick + cement, red brick + cement or reinforced concrete)
Whats so special about these condos? the prices are outrageous compared to these giant houses.
That looks like a cool book!!
It really is if you love Disney like us! I picked it up at Barnes and Noble on sale.
