$$$ isn't the issue. It's all the moving issues.
I go to the VA a lot and I always make early appointments and leave at 6am to go out there especially to get a h/c space on the lower level. Hadn't even thought about a short term rental. Idea worth looking in to. TY.
Of course you can hire all that moving stuff done for you.
Lived in Phoenix area for 25 years, moved to payson AZ. (Mountain area) for 15 years. Moved from Arizona about 5 years ago. AZ. Just kept sprawling and Getting way too congested and busy. Bought 30 acres in Rush Springs. No traffic, no crime and no shopping, but 20 miles either way gets me to shopping if I want. No pressure, no home owner fees, no stress, lower property taxes and insurance. Do what makes you feel better for you and your family. Sometimes losing a few dollars (if you can afford it) may make you live longer and happier. Just saying
Only you can decide if the noise is something you can tolerate, but I can tell you that for nearly 50 years I lived either on a cul-de-sac or out in the country, and I’m currently living just off a major 6-lane arterial road in Tulsa. I’m also not far from a major hospital, so we often have emergency vehicles running up and down the road.
You’d think the road noise would be bothersome, considering how little I heard it for most of my life, but it didn’t take long for it to just become part of the background. There’s the occasional annoyance when you’re trying to go to sleep and some jackwagon on a donorcycle decides that the stoplight is the Christmas tree at a drag strip, but even that is rare.
One thing that Tulsa has done to mitigate the sound from its major arterial streets and highways is to build walls between the roads and the neighborhoods (though not where I’m currently living). If you decide to stay, and if they decide to widen the road to accommodate the traffic, you might get together with your neighbors and talk to the city (county?) about doing that.
You’d think the road noise would be bothersome, considering how little I heard it for most of my life, but it didn’t take long for it to just become part of the background. There’s the occasional annoyance when you’re trying to go to sleep and some jackwagon on a donorcycle decides that the stoplight is the Christmas tree at a drag strip, but even that is rare.
One thing that Tulsa has done to mitigate the sound from its major arterial streets and highways is to build walls between the roads and the neighborhoods (though not where I’m currently living). If you decide to stay, and if they decide to widen the road to accommodate the traffic, you might get together with your neighbors and talk to the city (county?) about doing that.
73 trips around the sun...lol Have been looking and we've found a few in the areas we wanted (near Tinker and not too far from the VA) but a lot of them don't have garages or a 3-car which we need. We've got a lot to move or get rid of (should be anyway..lol). My house is fully paid and I have enough income to pay for a new one if needed till the present sells. I absolutely hate HOA's (won't get into why) and any area with one would be hard to consider.
Screw that gated community BS and their communist HOA’s! Why would you wanna live in a 55+ year old community? Those folks is all just waitin’ to die. Might as well just buy four plots at the cemetery and park your tiny home on top of them.
Our city gooberment is NOT responsive to anything residents want. It's all about revenue and putting things on every square inch of vacant land. They cater to big biz almost exclusively.
That sounds unfortunately like Norman. After I attended city meetings about a planned power plant that was supposed to be going in on the east side of Dirtybird, I was seriously thinking that our great grandparents were onto something with tarring and feathering politicrits. I would’ve been deliriously happy to see the city attorney run out of town on a rail. Dear God, that man was useless as teats on a boar, and he had the crappiest attitude towards the citizens who were going to be affected by the construction.
Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately, because the company, unlike the city, had been working with the residents to find a workable compromise), nothing ever came of it because the company’s presentation to the Oklahoma DEQ was scheduled for September 11, 2001…
I get that, for sure. HOAs are a full-stop no-go for me. I won’t even consider a property in an HOA.
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