It use to be nice where I live. A quiet area of our little town. Now the streets stay busy all day. I wish we lived further away. I can see the construction cranes and lights at night. They say if this new plant explodes that it will wipe us all out. It keeps moving closer to us. People are selling their houses down our main street. I would love to own one of them but i couldn't pay the upkeep and taxes. Hmmm... I never based my retirement on paying for a new house. Or even moving. I do consider myself lucky in even living in this community. A country home is nice but the upkeep can be strenuous.
I live in the suburbs of New York City about 17 miles east of Manhattan.This would not be considered the country. Fortunately they can not build any thing near my house because it is adjacent to a City Golf course .Zoning laws prohibit any thing but one family homes ,but people are buying houses up to $800,000, tearing them down and building what they call here Mc Mansions . So actuality they are only paying for the lousy 50 foot by 100 foot lot
Damn that's a lot of money!