I'm so in love with this house.

[homesick_american 1]

Posting it here for my UK buddies....see, we DO have "old" houses in Texas:

http://homes.realtor.com/Prop/1078612807

Gawd, I love that house; I know the area and it's goooooooooooooorgeous. It's in our price range but it sure as hell won't be on the market when we're ready to buy.

[Mags 112]

It sure is a lovely house, HA. I have to say that there are some gorgeous houses around here too, many of them really old. My hubby and I live in just about the oldest standing house (Federal style) in our little 10,000 people city, it was built around 1838.

We are currently doing it up, gonna be a long old project, but it'll look soopa once it is finished.

I love looking at old houses, you'll have to keep us posted on what you eventually buy over here!

[homesick_american 1]

It sure is a lovely house, HA. I have to say that there are some gorgeous houses around here too, many of them really old. My hubby and I live in just about the oldest standing house (Federal style) in our little 10,000 people city, it was built around 1838.

We are currently doing it up, gonna be a long old project, but it'll look soopa once it is finished.

I love looking at old houses, you'll have to keep us posted on what you eventually buy over here!

School quality is the most important issue for us since we're going to send our future sprogs to public school. The house I showed you is in the catchment area for some of Dallas's finest public schools. Strangely enough, the local high school was rated 'academically unacceptable' even though its standardized test scores are very high. It got the unacceptable rating because the performance of one ethnic group was below par. The new TEA guidelines seem to be REALLY strict. The locals consider it the best traditional public high school in the city.

I would LOVE to be able to live in old East Dallas, where a lot of the homes were built from 1900-1950 and you can still walk to the shops. Some areas have a lovely small-town feel. Unfortunately, EVERYBODY is after that location and prices have skyrocketed. I'm almost praying for a recession or real estate mini-crash to put the brakes on prices in Dallas...which are forecasted to have risen by 10% by the time we're ready to buy. That'll put that house closer to $450k.

Basically, I don't want to end up in treeless McMansion suburban hell with snooty b!tchy neighbors who are all SAHMs who drive Ford Expeditions and pledged some second-rate sorority and got psychology degrees from some sh!t school like Sul Ross State looking down on me. Maybe I'm a snob at heart but what I really REALLY want is to be with my own kind in Dallas proper...y'know, people who read books and don't laugh at fart jokes and don't watch NASCAR, where every third girl on the street ISN'T named some variant of MIKAYLA. Where people won't sarcastically coo "Well la dee DA" when I tell them I have a French degree. Where every neighbor isn't cursed with a gut the size of a beach ball lapping over poorly-fitting belted khaki shorts, showing off legs that look like big giant white funnels stuffed into $150 trainers that aren't used for any kind of athletic activity.

Edited May 29, 2007 by homesick_american

[homesick_american 1]

BTW Mags, if you liked one you'll probably love this one:

http://homes.realtor.com/prop/1076024376

[broma25 2]

Both of them are very nice!!!

[Mary Lou 681]

I loved the first house So much character and charm. But ####### was with the RED foyer?!?!?

When is your estimated date to moving back to the states HA?

[msu17 0]

Haha, I completely agree! That is a freaking beautiful house! You've got competition That's one of the best things about where I live right now. They have some of the lowest housing costs in the country and we have really been hit with the real estate slow down. Bad for everyone else, but good for us first time home buyers!

Jeeze, jsut looked at the 2nd one and its SO high compared to here. Same house would go for 1/2... I love Ohio

It sure is a lovely house, HA. I have to say that there are some gorgeous houses around here too, many of them really old. My hubby and I live in just about the oldest standing house (Federal style) in our little 10,000 people city, it was built around 1838.

We are currently doing it up, gonna be a long old project, but it'll look soopa once it is finished.

I love looking at old houses, you'll have to keep us posted on what you eventually buy over here!

School quality is the most important issue for us since we're going to send our future sprogs to public school. The house I showed you is in the catchment area for some of Dallas's finest public schools. Strangely enough, the local high school was rated 'academically unacceptable' even though its standardized test scores are very high. It got the unacceptable rating because the performance of one ethnic group was below par. The new TEA guidelines seem to be REALLY strict. The locals consider it the best traditional public high school in the city.

I would LOVE to be able to live in old East Dallas, where a lot of the homes were built from 1900-1950 and you can still walk to the shops. Some areas have a lovely small-town feel. Unfortunately, EVERYBODY is after that location and prices have skyrocketed. I'm almost praying for a recession or real estate mini-crash to put the brakes on prices in Dallas...which are forecasted to have risen by 10% by the time we're ready to buy. That'll put that house closer to $450k.

Basically, I don't want to end up in treeless McMansion suburban hell with snooty b!tchy neighbors who are all SAHMs who drive Ford Expeditions and pledged some second-rate sorority and got psychology degrees from some sh!t school like Sul Ross State looking down on me. Maybe I'm a snob at heart but what I really REALLY want is to be with my own kind in Dallas proper...y'know, people who read books and don't laugh at fart jokes and don't watch NASCAR, where every third girl on the street ISN'T named some variant of MIKAYLA. Where people won't sarcastically coo "Well la dee DA" when I tell them I have a French degree. Where every neighbor isn't cursed with a gut the size of a beach ball lapping over poorly-fitting belted khaki shorts, showing off legs that look like big giant white funnels stuffed into $150 trainers that aren't used for any kind of athletic activity.

Edited May 29, 2007 by msu17

[no name 1]

Same house would go for 1/2... I love Ohio

*shudder*

I hate Ohio, I got out ASAP.

[msu17 0]

Hey its Ohio, its all we got. That and corn...

[no name 1]

Hey its Ohio, its all we got. That and corn...

Ohio is not exactly known for corn.

[Donna A 4]

im in ohio also...where u from. yes housing here is so nice. for the kind of money they are asking for those homes would but a small mansion here. i dont love ohio but its home anyway.

[homesick_american 1]

Dallas is still pretty affordable for real estate. The houses that you're looking at are in historic areas of Dallas where homes cost twice the median price for the whole city, and they are very desireable since it's one of the only parts of town where you can still send your children to public school and still sleep at night.

If you want to see cheap but big houses, we have those too! By the TON.

And yeah, Texas isn't Ohio...but I'd rather have Texas's economy any day!

[homesick_american 1]

I loved the first house So much character and charm. But ####### was with the RED foyer?!?!?

When is your estimated date to moving back to the states HA?

Yeah, I didn't care for the color scheme either but that is something that can so easily be changed. If you're going to drop almost $400k on a house, what's $25 more for a bucket of paint?

I have no idea when we're going to get out of here. Soon I hope. I'm getting sick of this conveyancing #######, it's taking too long. We've been waiting THREE F*CKING WEEKS for the council to send the old planning documents. I took back EVERYTHING nice I ever said about them. They can suck my proverbial fat one. That's three weeks i've had to spend here that I didn't have to.

[Donna A 4]

i liked the red walls. i thought they looked good. i like it when people are not affraid of color.

[homesick_american 1]

i liked the red walls. i thought they looked good. i like it when people are not affraid of color.

That shade of red is my favorite color but I wouldn't use it so liberally on the walls, particularly in the foyer. It's like walking into a blood clot. I'd use it as an accent color, not the main color. Plus, it makes the foyer look dark.