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Would You Have Bought the Same House if You Had A Telecommute Option??

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by LanceyHoward, May 2, 2022.

  1. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    I am curious how telecommuting will impact the economic geography of the United States.

    I, for example, bought a house in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, over the strenuous objections of my spouse, so I could commute on the Metro. If I could have telecommuted four days a week I would have bought a house in Annapolis, which was cheaper and close to the Chesapeake Bay and endured a the horrible commute one day a week.
     
  2. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    We, too, bought a house in northern Virginia.

    Since I’ve been to my office exactly three times in the last two-plus years, and houses in our neighborhood are selling for insane prices, we’re thinking seriously about unloading ours and moving to small-town USA and getting twice the house for half the price, away from all the hustle and bustle.

    There are some logistical issues I need to work out first, but I’m reasonably confident we’ll be able to do so within a year or two.
     
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  3. FileNotFound

    FileNotFound Well-Known Member

    I bought the house I bought because I telecommute (and have for years). If all goes well, we’ll have it paid off a couple of years before we retire.

    We live in one of those areas that is suddenly very popular for those who work remotely, and house prices are going up accordingly — somewhat less so in my neighborhood, where the houses are smaller (we somehow get by with 1,700 square feet), but definitely in the adjacent neighborhoods where a 4-bedroom house is considered a “starter home.”
     
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  4. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Yes.
     
  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Bought house for the town's public schools, so yes.
     
  6. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    So did we, but our district dropped the ball so badly during the pandemic that it made us rethink our whole philosophy.
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Town's schools here were nationally ranked when my kids were there and still are. Did as well during the pandemic as could be expected.
     
  8. Mngwa

    Mngwa Well-Known Member

    Yes. My husband's job was hands on.
     
  9. Cosmo

    Cosmo Well-Known Member

    I do not own, but I rented a spot specifically to be strategically close to the fun parts of Richmond while not being too far away from the office. My commute is usually between 20-25 minutes, depending on traffic, and there usually isn't much of it save for the 5 p.m. commute home. As it is, I'm going to the office max three times a week, so this is ideal. I'm also a 10-minute walk from Carytown and can get to anywhere in the Fan or Museum District within 10 minutes via car or 30-45 minutes a pied.

    Lots of development happening east of downtown, but that would leave me at best a 45-minute commute involving tolls, so that's a non-starter for me.
     
  10. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    There was a story in one of the Toronto papers a couple weeks ago about people who work in downtown Toronto who sold houses in the city at the start of the pandemic so they could work from home pretty much anywhere (nothing is cheap within an hour or two of Toronto). But now they are expected to be back in the office two or three days a week and find it is impossible to have a decent commute from where they are living so they are now looking to rent in the larcenously priced Toronto market.
     
  11. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Bought my house 20 years ago when the Internet was still this strange thing that newspaper suits thought would be a passing fad.

    Moved back to my hometown because prices were too high in the area where my paper was located and my hometown was in commuting distance. Since then, I’ve had two other jobs in commuting distance; one heading south and the other heading north.

    I’m currently telecommuting two days a week and it costs me about $35 in gas and another $3 in tolls to commute three days a week. I’d like to be able to save that money, but it is what it is.
     
  12. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Never would have left Charlotte had I been able to do my current job remotely.
     
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