Itty Bitty Hooves

Where To Move?

Real estate prices are really sky rocketing out here even in farm country. The farm land is going up by leaps and bounds because of the new ethenol plant hopes. Farmers are plowing up fields and replanting corn where they used to have other things in hopes of cashing in on the corn craze… I hope it continues because even rural housing real estate is receiving a beneficial boost from land values jumping. They still can’t compare to the extraordinary prices you find up in the city where empty residential lots — when they can be found — can cost over fifty grand for less than a 1/4 acre. Man if I could get that kind of price for my land with ten acres here I could have a million bucks. Not too mention I could sell the parcel with the house on it for a lot more. Ah well, not likely any time soon. In the meantime still trying to decide which area of the country we’d like to retire in for good. Thoughts are leaning toward Tennessee and Kentucky. I desperately want warmer winters, but we’re afraid of the drought ridden areas like Texas and Oklahoma. The scary thing is Tennessee has been getting a bit of that just lately, and it’s even threatening to come up as far north as we are now. It’s getting so that we might not have any place moveable and still be able to have the animals.