Best Place to Live For $2M

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<p><a href=“http://www.semiahmooliving.com/9149_great_blue_heron_lane.htm[/url]”>http://www.semiahmooliving.com/9149_great_blue_heron_lane.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^^^ SomeMom, post 38.</p>

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<p>This isn’t bad: <a href=“http://realestate.yahoo.com/New_York/New_Rochelle/Homes_for_sale/e8248688a8530b9898fcc3f4c63c6f6d;_ylt=AuhY2emNw_OaEK2kHO7b5Z6kF7kF?[/url]”>http://realestate.yahoo.com/New_York/New_Rochelle/Homes_for_sale/e8248688a8530b9898fcc3f4c63c6f6d;_ylt=AuhY2emNw_OaEK2kHO7b5Z6kF7kF?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>And as the Cohan song says it’s only 45 minutes from Broadway. :)</p>

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<p>The Bainbridge Island listing is incredible. What’s it like there? What’s the weather like? The town?</p>

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<p>Kirmum- look into the beach area of Oxnard. Oxnard has a bad rep but the beach area is quite nice. Hollywood Beach, SilverStrand, Oxnard Shores. The lots are small but the houses can be large. Most are multi story with a sundeck on the top floor. I am not sure what the ocean front are going for but one block inbound can be had for easily under 2 million. 5 years ago they could be had for under a million for a brand new house. The lots in Oxnard Shores are larger. There is also the houses in Channel Islands marina that are built on the marina with boat dock. There is also the Pierpont area of Ventura. You will pay more in Ventura.
The nice thing about the area is you are still in Ca. at costs way less then Malibu or Santa Barbara.
You might be able to get oceanfront in Cambria for 2 million.
The problem in Ca is that if you downsize you could still end up with a sizeable jump in property tax. If we sold we would come out with a ton of cash but we would be spending the same or more on property tax for a much less desirable property.</p>

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<p>why lock yourself down to one house? I would have it so I could travel…with little responsibility to the property…b</p>

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<p>We’re in northern Florida, and oceanfront here is at least 5MM but inland just a mile 2MM buys a very nice house with all of the bells and whistles. We were visiting Carmel recently, and saw a nice little bungalow on the main st for sale…that was 2MM…talk about sticker shock!</p>

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<p>This place is only about 30 minutes from where I live. Well under 2M, but there’s those pesky winters to deal with! ;)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.windermere.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Listing.ListingDetail&ListingID=7540150[/url]”>http://www.windermere.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Listing.ListingDetail&ListingID=7540150&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Or I’d take this one over on the San Juan Islands (totally beautiful over there!!):
<a href=“http://www.windermere.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Listing.ListingDetail&ListingID=17504041[/url]”>http://www.windermere.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Listing.ListingDetail&ListingID=17504041&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>$2m will get you a lovely house with a garden, where you can walk to all the city fun, in Chicago, Cambridge, or another great city. You could even get a nice place in Manhattan for that much. I don’t need the headaches of mansion ownership when I retire.</p>

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<p>I thought the point was to REDUCE ones carbon footprint, not spend $2M on a wasteful behemoth.</p>

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<p>But if you build a mansion out of wood, you are sequestering carbon, which is almost as good as pumping oil back into the ground. Right? So that should give you a negative carbon footprint, unless you are planning on heating and cooling the house.</p>

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<p>mom60,
There is a small loophole, if you sell your house when you are 55 and older, you can transfer your tax base to another house provided the 2 counties allow you. I know Orange County and Alameda allow you to downsize.
Kirkmum,
Near the coast for $2M property is doable for Laguna Niguel, Newport Coast, and San Clemente, etc… but not beach front properties. They have not been that low for nearly 2 decades.</p>