Mornin' Hair! :-D
Cowboy - I'm kinda stuck right now. Single mom - 2 kids, supporting my mom too since my dad walked out on her 3 years back. She watches the girls so I can work and pay the bills.
The house is under my mom's name and she doesn't want to move and I can't really save enough to go on my own (I pay everything on my one meager income), so I've decided to wait until both of my girls are in school and old enough to handle a move into the country.
Two more years at least since my youngest is almost 3.
I've waited this long though, so I'll just keep looking forward and praying that prices stay reasonable in rural FL and that the sprawl doesn't reach there too.
I guess the upside is that by the time you're ready to sell and move the property will be worth a small fortune. There's a tiny house in my neighborhood in N. Palm, probably built in the 50's or 60's, that's on the market for 305K. That place might go for 80K back where I'm from.