Congrats! But if you hate Northeast winters you will not like deep south summers.
Dan Phillips www.CFXHosting.com 1-866-239-4678 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Erika L Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:40 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Georgia Bound! So! Some weird news from across the pond ... I was waiting until we had final approval on the house we wanted before I made an announcement, and since the money is being wired today to hold our spot, I figure now is as good a time as any! Since Phil has joined me in my business and we've also started our own company and we are both working from home, we can live wherever we choose. He's gone and decided that he'd like to spend some time in the states, so away we go! ALSO, we were going to buy a house here (UK), but the housing costs have skyrocketed since I moved here in 2001, and it makes no sense to buy here right now. Even though I'd like to stay. In Georgia, the Gainesville area, which is where were headed, 4 & 5 bedroom houses are going from $100,000 - $170,000 with a decent chunk of land. The nice top of the line, custom jobbers are going for $250,000 - $300,000. The house we almost bought here was almost $375,000 and NOWHERE near the size of the ones we're looking at in Georgia. So it just makes no sense to buy over here, when our money stretches farther in the US. We could probably find quite a bargain in the hills of Wales or the outskirts of the Scottish mountains, but then we'd get no internet access. :-/ Why Georgia of all spots? Professionally, a bunch of our friends (you guys!!!) and business contacts live in and around the Atlanta/Georgia area. It's also a Delta hub and they have non-stop flights in and out of Gatwick, so that makes it easy to fly back and forth. The Atlanta area also appears wired to the hilt with broadband options, so we're all set there. It's on the East coast which was a requirement and close and in the South, I refuse to sit through another NorthEast winter. :D There area we are looking at has a huge lake (Lake Lanier) and I've always wanted to live on or near water. We were going to wait a year before coming over when we first made the decision, but while we were sitting and waiting at the US Embassy to replace my passport 2 weeks ago, we decided "why wait?" We had to fly to Georgia in September for Adam's class anyway ... Why not just make it permanent? So immediately upon arriving home from London, we searched for a place to rent and a week later we had one. 3300 square feet later, cheaper than we pay now at three times the size. Bing bang boom. Done. We're 80% packed, will finish the rest this weekend, all that's left is to sell off the vehicles, finish the paperwork on the pets, buy the plane tickets, supervise the movers picking up the stuff - and we're off! Cheers, Erika With a K Soon to be - not in the UK! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
