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This Small Town Is a Gem in New York’s Finger Lakes — and It Was Just Named One of the Most Affordable Places to Buy a House in the U.S.

7/15/2023

Dobrina Zhekova
Wed, July 12, 2023 at 11:30 AM EDT
    Proximity to ski resorts, golf courses, lakes, and real estate that’s a third of the national median draws people to this quaint New York town.
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Photo: Courtesy of Experience Cortland
    With the average home value reaching $436,800 in the first quarter of this year — a whopping 33 percent increase since 2020 — and record-high mortgage rates, buying a house has become more challenging. However, there are still pockets of affordable real estate markets in the country that offer budget-friendly options, various urban amenities, and proximity to vacation-style recreation.

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December 14th, 2021

12/14/2021


AFTER 6 YEARS N LOS ANGELES, I MOVED MY FAMILY TO A 5,000 PERSON TOWN AND CAN NOW AFFORD THE LIFE WE DESERVE.

By Renee Childs, Insider.com
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Photo by Renee Childs
"This place is alive," I thought as I stepped out of the car at 11 p.m. in a southern Illinois town of 5,000 people.
    In August 2015, my family left Los Angeles, which was alive with busy freeways and bustling restaurants. But this small community was alive with the sound of crickets, owls, and blowing trees. It was literally alive.
My husband and I spent years contemplating staying in Southern California, with its high cost of living, hit-or-miss public schools, and distance from family — we spent thousands of dollars flying back and forth to the Midwest to visit them. At a certain point, it became unrealistic for us to keep chasing what we thought was our dream. 

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    Established in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the heady-mix of the earliest days of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Google way back in 2004, A. A. Augustine's Media Co. was incubated for 3 years as a "retro-style", traditional and digital media company. The company officially launched in 2007 and since then, has gone on to create and produce multiple children's, tween and teen book series as well as their accompanying hard and soft product lines, podcasts and gobs of music and comic strips and of course, my flagship, kids and regional travel series encompassing over 300 episodes which have been broadcast on PBS, My Network TV, COZI-TV, KOFY, AMG and RTV as well as hundreds of smaller, local stations all across the US.
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