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    Quote Originally Posted by rosarugosa View Post
    Tybee: Oh, gotcha. Crescent Beach State Park is a wonderful sandy beach, although I should add that we are beach walkers, not swimmers or sunbathers. We stayed at Inn by the Sea back in 2007 when it was merely very expensive rather than totally out of reach for us, and we enjoyed walking Crescent Beach every day while we were there. There are also a couple of nice sandy beaches on Prout's Neck (we had stayed at the Black Point Inn in 2004 and enjoyed beach walking there as well).
    So funny, I was just going back to edit out my negativity and see your post--we actually have had zero time to go to the beach since we got here, so busy working and dealing with parent stuff. There are probably very nice beaches here, but we have not seen them yet. I had wanted to move to the coast, and not where we moved, in the mountains, but we had to buy something at a distance, and prices had gotten too high where we wanted to move, so we bought sight unseen, closer to my parents assisted living, well hour and 45 minutes. Prices had gotten completely out of site anything closer to them. So we bought nearest affordable house that had space for the dogs and a barn for my husband to work in. Affected by Covid lockdowns, could not travel into the state, although I guess we probably could have, in retrospect, but the parents were not visitable in the assisted living, as that was locked down, along with the state itself.

    Now the towns we did like on the coast are stratospheric--prices 4 times what they were when we started looking 5 years ago.

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    Tybee: Yes, especially the southern coast; prices have escalated dramatically. I occasionally entertain fantasies of Bath, ME, which is still somewhat affordable, at least relative to where I currently live.

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    Come on up, Rosa, I don't think the weather is any worse than where you are, maybe a little better! Bath is pretty. We like Belfast best, but it is farther, and if you moved to Bath you could get the train to Boston in Brunswick.

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    There is a Bath, Maine? Oh I looked it up on realtor.com. There’s a beautiful blue house from 1853 this has modernizing done in a streamlined but I think largely sensitive way. Other than the hideous barn doors, it is handsome.

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    Not seeing the house, IL?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tybee View Post
    Not seeing the house, IL?
    https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...0_M39604-69172

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    Dang. Three years ago that would have been no more than 150-175, tops. 6 years ago, 55k. It is not in the fancy part of town by any means. Very middle class neighborhood, not ritzy at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tybee View Post
    Not seeing the house, IL?
    https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...0_M39604-69172


    It does have some unfortunate choices for flooring,
    I think..

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    That’s a pretty house. Except for kitchen and baths the floors should match on each level.

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    Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
    https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...0_M39604-69172


    It does have some unfortunate choices for flooring,
    I think..
    I am not a fan of the ubiquitous LVT flooring.

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