My House Has Sold

congrats!!  It's a horrible time to sell, so you were not alone in your woes I'm sure.  There is a house need me that I adore.  It's had a sale sign on it for months and months.  If I was more sure that I wanted to stay in the town I currently live in, I'd buy it, but I am not sure.  I know it's an elderly lady who lives there, and I feel bad some days and want to buy it to take it off her hands, but I know that is no reason to buy a house .... but it is on a corner lot and I like it... arggggggggggggh, decisions!!

... but congrats on your house!!, yay for you!

what's wrong with Houston?, I thought Houston was nice... but what do I know... I never even been to Texas, wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

it is a bad time to sell. but glad you did!  

I am going to be buying in the next 6 months and am glad for myself for the market, but have 2 family members caught in the housing pinch.

Congratulations!!!!

Keep your fingers crossed for me. I'm HOPING to receive a written offer today.

That's right...

Philly's got her now, and we're keeping her...  

Thanks everyone for the encouragement!

I'll defend Houston as a nice place to make a life.  Sure, there are some obvious downsides, but the people are great, the housing prices are reasonable, and there is a ton of opportunity.  Besides, you get used to the weather, and training in it prepares you for ANY kind of heat and humidity on a run! 

As for Philadelphia:  I LOVE it so far!!!   I run straight out my house one mile to Kelly Drive!  I have a cool local coffee shop!  I can walk to work!  Cars YIELD to cyclists!  I LOVE my new group at church!  But, alas, you may not have me for good.    This school has me here in a 2-year quasi-graduate-student kind of capacity.  If all goes well, in 2009 I'll end up wherever a law school hires me for a permanent position.

The  moving around is getting tiring.  For the fourth time in the last 15 years, I've had to: 

• hazard a guess as to an appropriate neighborhood in an unfamiliar city, and find a place to live
• figure out which ones are the grocery stores, and try to remember where they are.
• learn the local driving customs. 
• accept the fact that I will waste hours and hours lost going ANYWHERE.
• change driver's license. 
• find a new doctor. 
• find a new hairstylist.
• make all new friends.
• and so on! 

So, my Pennyslvania peeps, you are welcome to start praying for a full-time opening suitable for me somewhere around here!  And Texas, you KNOW I'd come back there in a heartbeat too.    It's just wherever I get a job.