Why is everyone moving to Lewes to retire?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have a second house in the agricultural area of Lewes. It was affordable and 15 minutes to rehoboth or Lewes. We got more house than being closer to the water. Ours isn't a new development but all the farms that surrounded our 1980's development of individualized houses are now cookie cutter developments so some the charm of the rural location is gone. Our property taxes for a 3+bedroom house on 1/4 acre is less than 1000/yr. the only other monthly bill is electricity...we're are on well and septic. I love vacationing there but I do not ever see us living there Year round.

Me again. The really big negative is it will be very hard to sell if we ever decide to . With all the agricultural land being turned into houses there is an unlimited supply of houses for sale. And they are relatively cheap.

[Anonymous]

It's cute. I can take it for 2 days.

I'd be bored out of my mid longer and its way too hot and humid in the summer.

I loathe that trafficked strip between Lewis and Rehoboth with the outlets and tacky shops.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a second house in the agricultural area of Lewes. It was affordable and 15 minutes to rehoboth or Lewes. We got more house than being closer to the water. Ours isn't a new development but all the farms that surrounded our 1980's development of individualized houses are now cookie cutter developments so some the charm of the rural location is gone. Our property taxes for a 3+bedroom house on 1/4 acre is less than 1000/yr. the only other monthly bill is electricity...we're are on well and septic. I love vacationing there but I do not ever see us living there Year round.

Me again. The really big negative is it will be very hard to sell if we ever decide to . With all the agricultural land being turned into houses there is an unlimited supply of houses for sale. And they are relatively cheap.

This has occured to me as well. Especially the over 55 developments.

[Anonymous]

I think the trick is if you are in-town Lewes or in-town Rehoboth. Plenty of retirees from DC and MoCo whom I see thriving there. They walk early in the am, know how to avoid traffic, have grandkids eager to visit and go to the beach, trade their homes on vacation sites to go to other places, etc.

I agree, the farm and wetlands developments are sick -- and will be prone to flooding (wetlands).

[Anonymous]

Fenwick is the ticket. On the barrier island. A legacy for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fenwick is the ticket. On the barrier island. A legacy for your kids.

Where on Fenwick, and what about Selbyville, the part that seems to be actually Fenwick or just beyond?

[Anonymous]

What about Sea Colony or Bayside?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fenwick is the ticket. On the barrier island. A legacy for your kids.

Interesting to hear island and legacy in the same sentence what with global warming.

[Anonymous]

My parent retired there in the 90s, moved to a darling home in town and had a wonderful retirement in Lewes, this was before all the developments. Still if I could find a place in town I would retire there too. The pace of life is nice and once all the vacationers leave I would go out to eat again. Those living out in the developments rarely come in closer to town because they like the walmarts and kmarts and outlets and traffic so the town remains cute and walkable. But in town Lewes is no longer inexpensive.

[Anonymous]

My parents retired to Lewes. They sold their house in the DC area for a ton, bought a house out there (near the Lowes, so probably one of the cookie cutter neighborhoods you are talking about) for cheap, pay barely anything in property taxes, and their government pension goes far.

They are seriously 15 minutes from everything. Doctors, hospital, beach, stores, etc. There are a bunch of people their age, their house is designed for retirees, etc.

And, to a comment upthread re: traffic on 1, only suckers take the main roads during the summer. When you live there, you learn where to go, at what time, what roads to drive, where to park etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's cute. I can take it for 2 days.

I'd be bored out of my mid longer and its way too hot and humid in the summer.

I loathe that trafficked strip between Lewis and Rehoboth with the outlets and tacky shops.

Have you ever been to a beach, anywhere? Its all pretty much tacky shops, everywhere...

(cue MV poster...)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have a second house in the agricultural area of Lewes. It was affordable and 15 minutes to rehoboth or Lewes. We got more house than being closer to the water. Ours isn't a new development but all the farms that surrounded our 1980's development of individualized houses are now cookie cutter developments so some the charm of the rural location is gone. Our property taxes for a 3+bedroom house on 1/4 acre is less than 1000/yr. the only other monthly bill is electricity...we're are on well and septic. I love vacationing there but I do not ever see us living there Year round.

Me again. The really big negative is it will be very hard to sell if we ever decide to . With all the agricultural land being turned into houses there is an unlimited supply of houses for sale. And they are relatively cheap.

This has occured to me as well. Especially the over 55 developments.

OMG, just shoot me. I can't fathom how incredibly boring that life would be. Golf, bridge at the "club," and shopping with "the girls" at the cheap-ass outlets.

[Anonymous]

The retirees don't shop at the outlets, they have lives. Alot are from NJ or PA, take at look at what those states pay in taxes and you will understand why its a good deal. And these folks are happy, which is something I do not run across on DCUM, I guess because you are so sophisticated and worldly. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's cute. I can take it for 2 days.

I'd be bored out of my mid longer and its way too hot and humid in the summer.

I loathe that trafficked strip between Lewis and Rehoboth with the outlets and tacky shops.

Have you ever been to a beach, anywhere? Its all pretty much tacky shops, everywhere...

(cue MV poster...)

Yea. I would never retire to one of those beaches.

We live seasonally in Maine that is beauty and great temps in the summer. Zero beach tackiness or shit shops way up Coast.

I can't do mid-Atlantic or anything farther South.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My parents retired to Lewes. They sold their house in the DC area for a ton, bought a house out there (near the Lowes, so probably one of the cookie cutter neighborhoods you are talking about) for cheap, pay barely anything in property taxes, and their government pension goes far.

They are seriously 15 minutes from everything. Doctors, hospital, beach, stores, etc. There are a bunch of people their age, their house is designed for retirees, etc.

And, to a comment upthread re: traffic on 1, only suckers take the main roads during the summer. When you live there, you learn where to go, at what time, what roads to drive, where to park etc.

Uh there is only one road to the beach (rte 1). There are no back roads, I own 2nd home in Rehoboth and live there all summer.