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Picking the worser of two evils...Limits or Lag

     We have always been different from the average family. Just as an example, we don't have cable. I'll wait while everyone picks their jaws off the floor. We have managed to live the past year without cable. If we are going to watch television of any kind it's either on Youtube or some app on our XBox. It does seem weird and a lot of times when major events happen I'm the last to hear about it. My husband tells me and he usually hears it from the radio.  When the decision was made to move out to the country the thought that high speed internet not being available with all the technology we have no a days didn't seem like it would be a big issue we are only 1/2 a mile off a major highway and 10 miles from being in city limits.      Now 2 days from closing  [NAME OMITTED] is in panic mode trying to figure out what we are going to do about our biggest complication. I personally don't think it is an issue but if you have satellite and yo...

Decision Made, & An Offer Excepted..

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     A few weeks ago we looked at a property in New Virginia (60 minutes from our current home) it was 10 acres with a pond and a very beautiful property, but for many reasons including the very small school district and a house we didn't love or really even like we decided it wasn't the right property for us. Then less than a week later our realtor called and told us the property that we wanted to look at in the beginning of May in Winterset was available. We were excited and nervous all at the same time but we scheduled a showing the following morning.      The night before going to the property  [NAME OMITTED] and I talked about all the pros and cons for about the 500th time and the next day (Friday May 24th) we went and looked inside the house (we had walked around the 5.5 acres on the property early May). It was move in ready and even though this house is a tremendous downsize for us. We were very happy with the house, so we made an of...