Greensboro
Mood:  vegas lucky
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Topic: Daily Eruptions
Hans and I had found a home building company we liked on one of our first scouting trips to Greensboro in search of a new place to live. Yesterday, we drove around to three more of their developments and found two townhouses we are considering buying. One is smaller and right inside the Greensboro city limits and is four miles from where Hans will be working. (In theory, he could take public transportation, but it looks like he would have to take 3 buses and a shuttle to travel those 4 miles!) It has a grassy hill just beyond the back porch with a huge, gorgeous old tree behind that. The house is finished and just waiting for someone to move in. We walked through the model homes, and even though this one is small, it's really all the room we need (except the kitchen which really is too small--no pantry or island and fewer cabinets than we have currently), and it could be decorated to give the illusion of more space.

The other is larger and backs up to a bank of trees surrounding a stream with a nice grassy lawn between the porch and the edge of the woods. This one has a kitchen nearly the size we have currently with both an island and a pantry, a separate dining room, and a fireplace in the "Great Room" which is such a joke when you're talking about a townhouse. It has three bedrooms and two baths upstairs, which is one more of each than we really need, but the master is airy and has a cathedral ceiling. This one, though, is in a small town outside Greensboro and would be about twenty miles from Hans's office, meaning we would have to buy a second car and get a mortgage all at the same time. If we could swing the second car, even with a 30 minute commute to work for Hans, that might be less travel time than if we lived four miles away and Hans took the three buses and a shuttle. Plus, it's on the Chapel Hill/Hillsborough side of Greensboro, so it would cut an hour off my total commute time 4 days a week.

We have to make some calls today and see if either of these options are reasonable....