City Livin, How in hell can Those folks stand it ?

Gated community, My OWN GATE!!!!

 

I hear yah. That's like Okies instinctively know that once you cross a cattle guard that you've crossed over into someone's private property.

 

Grandma used to say, "Takes all kinds to make a world."

 

I just paid off mine this Summer. I paid more than 300K tho. Took 15 years of hard work.

The value has more than tripled.

And what's sad is that there's really nothin' special about it.

5-0

 

I've got a gate down at the road, then a cattle guard up by the house. Both are wonderful.

The only way to live.

 

Part of me loves living in the city. Thankfully, the other half dozen people in my head out vote that ******* every time.

 

That's the way to go, in my opinion. I want my own shack in the woods. And, with a gate, like a garage door remote controlled gate. And surveillance cameras. And land mines, or at least signs that say land mines. Yeah, and I want to be able to pee outdoors.

 

I have no clue what the housing market is like in Oklahoma, but I didn't think you could buy much for under 300k either. I'm no Bill Gates, but 300k for a house here isn't buying you much.

By the time my kids are in the market for a home, it's probably going to be twice that.



Oh, and I'm with you vet, I'll take rural over urban any day.

 

The Mighty Mule gate openers they sell at Atwoods, Lowes, etc really do work well. I've had the cheapest one they make on our gate for 2 years with no real problem. Just a little lawn tractor battery, and their solar charger. Makes life much easier.

 

I'm just entering the housing market myself, and while I'm looking to spend less than $300K, there are a ton of homes out here in the STL suburbs that got built, sold, or foreclosed upon in the last three years. In the two towns that we're primarily interested in, there are something like 500 houses available, most of them around our price range. It's a fairly depressed market, with new construction going for something like $60-65 a square foot in certain areas.

 

I'll be the outsider here, I guess. I grew up in a rural home near Ada, and have lived in a couple rural places since, but I'm a hardcore city dweller. I just really prefer to have everything close at hand, is all, and crowds really don't bother me.

 

I'd rather be living in the city, too. If we didn't have a kid, we'd still be much farther in by where we used to live.

 

It was for this reason that I considered moving last fall. Had two new houses built down the road from me (where previously there were none) and one evening was taking a leak outside when one of the new neighbors came driving up the road. Had to shut it off and zip up real quick. Never had that problem before. I was not a happy camper.

 

My requirements when I bought the Deanarosa were simple:

a) I wanted to be able to hunt deer/turkey/quail/skunks/coyotes/coons/possums/armadillos/etc. right out my back door
b) I wanted to be able to catch bass and crappie on my own place
c) I wanted to not have a neighbors house anywhere within hearing/seeing distance
d) I wanted to be able to shoot a high-powered rifle towards any point on the compass from my house and not worry about hitting anybody/thing

Mission accomplished. Some day I may move back to town, but I can't imagine what the situation would be that would make this scenario happen. I only say it because I've learned to "never say never" in this bidness of life.

 

Some of you guys must not have looked for a house in a real long time or must be really rich. I just bought a 1700 sf home with 3bed/3bath only 5 years old for 125k....I don't see how you CAN'T find an awesome house for under 300k in OK.....

 

The problem is that I'm not in Oklahoma. I'm in the Denver area (actually just west, and have 6 acres of land, although I can't shoot a high powered rifle in any direction as Dean can...well, I could, but I'd end up hitting a neighbor and that's just bad for everyone involved). For 125k, I could reside in the worst parts of the city...or a tiny condo elsewhere.

When I was a kid, we lived on the northside of OKC, and I remember my mom bought our house for a little over $40k. That was my only experience with housing...so, when I went looking for my first home, the houses I looked at were in the $100k range (this what over 20 years ago), and I couldn't believe it.

 

2BR for 330K? Dirt cheap uppa here...

 

I live in the City. I have fence and 2 gates and 3 huge Pecan Trees. The first year we lived here we made our 1st house pmt with the pecans I sold from our Trees. I can walk to OU/Tulsa and the Mall or even both my kids schools and there are 32 movie screens within walking distance. Also a park with a gym, a pool, a walking track soccer fields you can fly a kite on, baseball, basketball, softball and tennis faculties. There is an old time hardware store a 1/2 mile away and the Tulsa Expos largest Gun Show is a little over a mile away and the BA and I-44 interchange is 3/4 of a mile away. I could go on but I don't want to brag.

I love it here in the city and if I want to get out of the city I know where to rent a cabin so I go take my kids fishing and even camping. Green Country is awesome these days and you don't need to spend $330,000 on a house to have a nice place. We feel very lucky to have bought into this area 17 years ago. Sure we could use a bit bigger house but we figure by the time we pay it off we will have raised our kids and have all the house we will need then.

To each his own. I know that there isn't anyone setting off dynamite or heavy explosives near our house so I don't have to worry about the stuff in the china cabinet or what's hanging on the wall. Also it's not a bad drive to football games in Norman 6-7 times a year.

 

whew, that was close.

 

I loved living in the country...but I found my wife didnt have the stomach for it and she wanted to be closer to our daughter...I'm back living in mid town Tulsa now. I learned you have to make sacrifices for the people you care about. Though my wife could have made that sacrifice I know it turned out better this way and working on our place in the country was physically kicking my ***. Now all I have to worry about is keeping the pool clean in the summer.