It's official!

[BWSSR]

Wife and I have been working on our 13 acre place for the last 5 years..got the home done last February, and have been doing and getting all the "stuff" to stay....well, Saturday is the day we turn it into our home....lond drive to work but the rewards will be awesome...so we say GOOD BYE to Houston!...Hello Madisonville, Texas...guna be a fun ride!.

But let me say moving 30 years of "crap"...is a pain...

See y'all in the country!
Bruce & Ann

 

[Gary Fowler]

It seems a lot of folks are moving out of Houston and surrounding towns in favor of a more sedated country life. My daughter and son-in-law moved to an acreage sub-division about 50 mile drive to his work but they love it. They are putting lots of miles on the vehicles though.
I waited on moving to the country till I retired just so I wouldn't be buying a new car every 2-3 years but I would never go back to city life again. I hate to go to Houston for a visit due to all the people and cars, cars, cars.

I live in ranching country and 15 miles to nearest hospital BUT it was that distance to nearest hospital when I lived in Crosby Texas also and took much longer to drive it so I think I am in a better situation now than then as far as health care plus not much air pollution here either.

 

[EddieWalker]

Congratulations. There is no better feeling the seeing your driveway and feeling the tension of the day disappear as you pull into your property.

Eddie

 

[sseelhoff]

Good news, indeed. Enjoy your country home. You will be glad you did.

 

[mddorange]

Welcome to easy living, ha. ha. I waited until I retired the second time to get my 11 acres but wouldn't go back for anything. It does seem like the work is never done though, (fixing fences, taking care of the animals, bush hogging, the garden, etc.) but it is at my pace now.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

High mileage cars and big gasoline bills are something we have lived with for the past 40 years. We moved on to an acreage in 1972 and haven't looked back. Even when we were scraping to get by, we considered the long drive worth it. Of course with kids, it meant we had to have two cars; preferably cars which get good gas mileage...and then when the kids got to be driving age, they both had their own vehicles...VW Bugs. Now that we're both retired, and the city has moved in on us it's not as much as a problem as it was.

 

[300UGUY]

Congrats. The driving will get old, but think of it as a retirement incentive.

 

[dave1949]

Congratulations! The long commute drives won't last forever, there is light at the end of the freeway. Enjoy your new home location.

 

[BWSSR]

Thanks everyone....got me a Mazda 3 a few weeks ago..42+mpg so far...now as stated, I can work one the never ending things to fix any time rather than kill myself on Saturdays...then head back to H-town....I think I will sit on the front porch and have a beer this weekend to let it soak in :cool2:

 

[SirReal63]

Excellent news Bruce!