Hope you make the best decision Wahine...for a place that you both plan to stay for the next..10-30 yrs.?

Location (close to services, accessible roads) plus a decent inside of the home is always a big draw.

Speaking of which, we were vacationing 15 yrs. ago in a small town-resort area along the British Columbian coast. We wondered about the low pricing of large homes sitting on top of long hills in an area that tends to get grey days and enough rain in fall and winter. A long hill is ok in areas where there isn't much snow.

But not in the region where I live with much colder winters and if there is a sidewalk to shovel, etc. What looks great in one region, is not easily coped with in another region of a country.

More and more locals in our city are SLOWLY finally now getting it: living close to services, transit and parks, etc. and designing communities accordingly.