Every now and then, not more than once every few weeks, now that Chad is back living in the area, I check the houses for sale in our old town of MO. Last night, right before I went to bed, I clicked on “new listings” and there it is . . our old house . . for sale again! Except for it being in the city limits and the red tag man, that house is as close to perfect as it gets. I loved everything about that house except the location.
It has two bedrooms on the main level, along with 2-1/2 baths. It has two bedrooms and a full bath in the basement. It has a garage in the basement as well as a 3 car garage on the main level. It has a wonderful kitchen. It has a dang good air conditioner because we put it in right before we left. It has a shop for Vince and 1 acre on a little creek where morel mushrooms grow. The basement has a wonderful big room for a sewing room, a concrete safe room inside the basement, a great place for storing canned food.
Sewing Room – MO
If I were planning the perfect house, I can’t think of anything I would change . . this is really a perfect house for us.
Sewing Room – MO
But, even the perfect house in the not so perfect location is not perfect. I am not a city dweller. I cannot live with neighbors and barking dogs and the city constantly looking for an 8″ weed so I can get a red tag in my yard.
But I love that house. Real estate is so darned inexpensive there .. it makes me sad that house is not in the country somewhere. I’d be begging Vince to buy it back. I can see holidays with Addie in that house. But then I think of how much I wanted to get out of town and live in the country. Talk about feeling conflicted . . I can’t let my desire to move back to MO cause us to make a decision we would regret.
Wanda says
Why not just built one in the country there just like it.it isn’t like you are in a rush to move.
Sandy says
Although your old home is huge and beautiful, you’ve moved on. I’ve learned that no matter what, we can’t go back to a former place and a former life. Things would never be the same!
Angie Kiker says
Wow, Judy, that would be hard to resist. I also loved your Missouri home. I would be tempted to put up with the red tag man just to live there! It really is a very nice home with everything except a gas range as I recall. Otherwise it was just enough land for a nice garden which you love. Maybe you could buy it and rent it out until you are ready to move back to MO. It was kinda sad to see the realtor photos of it empty. One thing to consider though are the stairs to the lower level. Stairs don’t work too well with “old knees”. We have stairs going up to our front door now, and each year they are getting more bothersome to bring groceries into the house. (or fabric!) :o)
quiltnqueen says
Wanda took the words right out of my mouth! I was going to say, why don’t you build one like it in the location you want to live 🙂
JudyL says
There’s NO way we would ever build a house. Even if something happened and there was never another house for sale, I’d live in an RV before I’d build a house. I’ve done that and have absolutely no desire to ever do it again. Another thing is that we couldn’t come close to building that same house for the price. The real estate market is so depressed there – probably always will be, but yet building materials and contractors have about the same rates as anywhere else.
Diana G says
Yep that is what I think of every time I time I think of moving back over the mtns. I just cannot tolerate the noise, crime and then the stupidity err did I type that ?? of the neighbors. We keep to ourselves and don’t bother anyone say hello to the neighbors, even chat in the street but sometimes at night when I just want to hear my own heartbeat, one cannot.
Don’t get me wrong, I live on 1/2 acre and each one of the homes here are the same. But sometimes when the neighbor’s daughter does her basketball or volley ball practice, I sure wish we were out further on acreage.
We have neighbors who -because Colorado passed the pot law here, sell pot legally and grow it with a license. I am just waiting for the Sheriff to show up one night and there be a problem.
Sigh… we need to move out to the country and be able to hear our own heartbeat!
marcille irwin says
As I read the other comments, I agreed with so many of them. In the end though, I tend to believe that things work out just as they are meant to, so I’m sure that you will find the perfect house when the time is right. If you bought the house you love, in a town you don’t and then Chad was transferred somewhere out of Missouri you would be very upset.
And you are right, you can never build a duplicate house for the cost of the existing, unless you use really cheap materials and cut corners. I’ve read your blog long enough to know that you and Vince neither one would be happy with that.
Have fun as you keep looking and you will one day soon find the perfect home in the perfect location!