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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 [b]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? [/b]

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

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

Yes, I grew up a nice suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in the 80's and 90's.  That part of the USA is very cold (much colder than the DMV).  We literally [u]never[/u] had power outages during my entire childhood.  I think that part of the reason is that the power companies there have made the proper investments in infrastructure, such as by burying the power lines.  It would be 30 degrees below zero with strong winds, and we never lost power.  (Here, the infrastructure seems cheap by comparison, with old above-ground power lines.)[/quote]

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