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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have had both a second home a very rural part of VA and a house inside the beltway for 20 years.  
Country living has relative PROS and CONS:

PROS:
- no traffic
- low taxes
- lots of interesting wildlife
- very quiet and peaceful
- no crime
- great hiking, biking, fishing, boating.
- local, family-owned businesses (few chain stores)

CONS
- few good choices for household services (electric, plumbing, landscape, etc.)
- long drives for most shopping
- frequent power outages
- well water
- poor supermarket options
- few restaurant choices 
- limited local medical care 
- limited cultural scene
- weak schools[/quote]

This is interesting because I live in Alexandria and we have power outages all the time yet everyone I know who lives in the Midwest or pa say they never have power outages most say it's been 15 or 20 years. Is this a Virginia/DMV thing?

Pp why do you think you have so many outages there?

How far are the stores from you? [/quote]

This PP with the list of pros and cons... nearest supermarket (Food Lion) is 20 mins.  Walmart is 25mins.  
We have outages because we are the very last mile on a long peninsula in the windiest county in VA.   If any transmission or pole/wire goes down -- even 20 miles inland -- we lose power.  If dozens of poles go down they don't bother fixing ones near us until all the inland poles are fixed because we can't get power until the further inland transmission is repaired.  Of course we bought a whole house generator supplied by 250 gallon propane tank.[/quote]

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