House Hunting!

As we get closer to the big day, March 17th when we find out if we stay or if we go (hopefully not too far away) we have been looking at houses. This task is fun on some levels - dreaming about the future home, think of all the fun decorating it and making it "our home." On the other hand it is extremely frustrating. There seems to be plenty of cute houses on the market but they are SO SO SO expensive. For comparison I have been looking at houses in my home town. I fully understand the sad state of the Detroit economy and many houses for sale there are priced below their true worth I am sure but for goodness sake we are talking a 400,000+ difference in the cost of a two to three bedroom house when comparing Alexandria, VA and say Bloomfield Hills, MI. Do you know what $400,000 can buy you? Well, it can buy you just about four years of medical education or 100,000 lattes from Starbucks which just might be enough to get you through those four years of medical school. Here are some examples of what you can buy for $400,000 or more in some of the locations we could potentially be come June.

Cute Right? Well this little guy is $550,000

This cutie in Michigan is a whole $90,000 yep just a little more than one year of medical school 

Now if only we could transport all the things we love about Washington, DC to suburban Michigan we would be all set! I am keeping my fingers crossed for a big power ball win (even though I do not even play) or better yet winning the HGTV Dream Home. Did you enter yet?