Struggling with buying a house

[Wahine]

The thing about location, location, location is that both locations have advantages and disadvantages. In terms of making the best investment, I think they both weigh out pretty evenly on the location aspect.

While the house I live in is on a busy road, it's only a 5 min drive into down town for restaurants shopping etc, and it's rideable as well. You're only 1 mile from the most well known trail head for the Post Canyon trail system that isn't functional as the moment but will be again (about 6 months I would guess), and you're less than a mile from 2 wineries, one very well known, less than 3 miles from several with another very well known one in there. The traffic seems like a lot to me, but as my friends that came to visit last night said, it's manageable. To put things into perspective a bit, the property is well treed and has a creek that borders the back property line, so when you're sitting on the back deck, you can't hear the road for the creek sounds and you feel like you're in the woods.

The other house has more acreage and solitude, it's on a dead ending road, and it backs onto county forest so you can access the well known Post Canyon trail system from the property but not at a well know trail head. These are things that are highly desireable to me but that I'm not sure I should weight them so heavily in my decision.

[Wahine]

Right now I am planning to keep looking through the next few months just to see what else is around and what else crops up.

[lovelygamer]

Do you have children or plan to? the logging truck scenario scares the crap out of me when it comes to pets or children. God forbid one wander into the street. I mean it could happen on any street-but what are the survival chances when it's a logging truck. Did you ever see pet cemetery, the movie? Ugh. So sad. P.S. kids don't even need to wander in the street anymore to get hurt. My niece was hit by a car when she was nine...standing in the most corner part of her families yard on a road with little shoulder. Thankfully, she survived but she was in the hospital for days.

[shootingstar]

The thing about location, location, location is that both locations have advantages and disadvantages. In terms of making the best investment, I think they both weigh out pretty evenly on the location aspect.

While the house I live in is on a busy road, it's only a 5 min drive into down town for restaurants shopping etc, and it's rideable as well. You're only 1 mile from the most well known trail head for the Post Canyon trail system that isn't functional as the moment but will be again (about 6 months I would guess), and you're less than a mile from 2 wineries, one very well known, less than 3 miles from several with another very well known one in there. The traffic seems like a lot to me, but as my friends that came to visit last night said, it's manageable. To put things into perspective a bit, the property is well treed and has a creek that borders the back property line, so when you're sitting on the back deck, you can't hear the road for the creek sounds and you feel like you're in the woods.

The other house has more acreage and solitude, it's on a dead ending road, and it backs onto county forest so you can access the well known Post Canyon trail system from the property but not at a well know trail head. These are things that are highly desireable to me but that I'm not sure I should weight them so heavily in my decision.

It sounds like a nice location, Wahine where you are. Maybe the key thing is getting the car in and out safely if it's a busy road that runs by the house. Or being near another side street that one whips onto (by car or bike) to avoid the long march of cars. I can appreciate what you mean about trees and setback that gives a wonderful illusion of peace.

I live on a street that is 2 blocks away from a busy 4 lane, one way street downtown...which is only busy for 4-5 hrs. out of each workday with peak rush hr. car traffic. On weekends it's quite dead..and laughable to have long street light waits.