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[mamculuna]

Well, my husband and I are on another round of trying to find a house in a city that we both can stand to live in (meaning, not in SC or IL), and for maybe the fourth time, that city is Asheville. So I'm headed up there, with appointments to see four different realtors in two days to look at...seven houses and a green community. In the past, we've given up for various reasons, mostly thinking that it was going to be a compromise that would just make us both unhappy at the same time, instead of alternating/serial unhappiness (not about each other, but about the places where we're living--SC is too hot and small for him, Chicago's too cold and big for me). But then we go back for a visit, and realize that yet more friends have moved there or nearby, and it looks good again. So once more...

I don't think any of these is going to be the house, but I look at it as shopping for neighborhoods. It's very hard to leave a house you've made your own, in so many ways, and I'm only willilng to move to something I like at least this much, or more. I feel sort of sorry for the houses I'll look at, already knowing that none of them is it. Sort of like blind dates when you've googled them ahead of time, I guess.

There are some wonderful houses there, but people seem to be living in them.

Comments

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Good househunting luck!

[usedtobeljs]

Good luck, good thoughts for the process and the result!

[maeve-rigan.livejournal.com]

Asheville is so pretty. And most of the year, great climate. But you know that. I'll just be wishing you good luck. You'll know the place when you see it.