Timbo
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I'm looking for opinions from anyone familiar with the N.C. coastal area that could suggest where we might start looking to buy a home.
My wife and I are starting to look for what we hope will be our retirement home. We're already semi-retired in that we left our corporate jobs in 2009. Since then we both have been persuing "part time" careers doing what we always wanted to do when we grew up...she doing personal fitness training, me woodworking, including pen turning of course. Our timeframe to move is anytime within the next 3 years.
Our new home must satisfy two criteria; 1: be near the ocean; 2) be not so remote that it will be difficult to practice our retirement careers. She needs a decent population nearby that would be interested in fitness training, I still need to do shows without having to travel hundreds of miles.
We both love the ocean, and the Outerbanks, and would like to settle near the water, but not on the barrier islands themselves. We perfer to be on the mainland, near enough to water to make it convenient to have a boat. Something on a canal would probably be perfect, although we would settle for something less than perfect.
I think the cost of living will be lower than here in the N.E. We're hoping to sell our large 4-bedroom home here, and buy a smaller house, with enough property to build a 2-story structure that has a shop on the 1st floor, and exercise studio above. Fortunately, the area we live in was not hit too hard by the housing bubble, we're hoping to do this with just the proceeds from the sale of our current home.
We don't know if this dream will come true, but we know it wont if we don't start trying to make it happen.
I was wondering If there was anyone with familiarity with the area that could suggest where we might start looking. I will also try to contact a realtor in the area who we might be able to work with.
Thanks.
My wife and I are starting to look for what we hope will be our retirement home. We're already semi-retired in that we left our corporate jobs in 2009. Since then we both have been persuing "part time" careers doing what we always wanted to do when we grew up...she doing personal fitness training, me woodworking, including pen turning of course. Our timeframe to move is anytime within the next 3 years.
Our new home must satisfy two criteria; 1: be near the ocean; 2) be not so remote that it will be difficult to practice our retirement careers. She needs a decent population nearby that would be interested in fitness training, I still need to do shows without having to travel hundreds of miles.
We both love the ocean, and the Outerbanks, and would like to settle near the water, but not on the barrier islands themselves. We perfer to be on the mainland, near enough to water to make it convenient to have a boat. Something on a canal would probably be perfect, although we would settle for something less than perfect.
I think the cost of living will be lower than here in the N.E. We're hoping to sell our large 4-bedroom home here, and buy a smaller house, with enough property to build a 2-story structure that has a shop on the 1st floor, and exercise studio above. Fortunately, the area we live in was not hit too hard by the housing bubble, we're hoping to do this with just the proceeds from the sale of our current home.
We don't know if this dream will come true, but we know it wont if we don't start trying to make it happen.
I was wondering If there was anyone with familiarity with the area that could suggest where we might start looking. I will also try to contact a realtor in the area who we might be able to work with.
Thanks.
