Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Vosilla who wrote (49118)	2/26/2006 2:14:45 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<How does Richmond or other areas of Virginia outside of metro DC stack up?>> Getting more populated, congested and expensive all the time. About 10 years ago, I was getting the bum's rush from Realtors and builders who were selling new-home communities in the Williamsburg, VA, area--they wanted agent referrals of buyers seeking retirement homes in Williamsburg. The communities appeared to be pretty nice. Shoulda bought one myself! Now some Realtors who used to work in the DC area are soliciting all of us for referrals, because they're now working in Williamsburg, and people from here are moving down there in droves. About six years ago, I sold a widow's home in my town so she could move to the retirement home she had just bought in a planned community in Fredericksburg, VA. That place has now grown up and Fredericksburg (about an hour+ away from DC) is now regarded as a suburb of DC. I wouldn't consider anyplace in Virginia as a likely place for buying real estate as a retirement refuge. It's all going to the dogs (of development and mega-population). North Carolina and Georgia aren't far behind, though.