I was scrolling Trulia on the couch with wine, and it turned into a 1,000-mile move to a place I'd never lived. I'm thrilled.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Vanessa Chaverri-Gratz, 33, about finding and buying a home 1,000 miles away on a whim. She has documented designing her new home for over 34,000I'm an optometrist recruiter, and my husband works for a tech company based in California.
Then my husband landed a dream job in a different market, but it was fully remote. I also work fully remote, so for the first time since we've been together and in our careers, we were actually in full control of where we got to live. We happened upon this house in a town called Grosse Ile, Michigan. It's kind of in the Detroit metro area, but it's a very unique place. It's an island in the middle of the Detroit River that borders Michigan and Canada.
We told ourselves before we walked in the door that we're not going to romanticize this. We're not going to try to make it something it's not — let's be very realistic. If we don't get the immediate,"This is for us" feeling, then we're going to walk out and move on.We opened the door and they were playing jazz throughout the house — and that's one of our favorite things to play throughout our house. The minute I heard it I said,"Oh, no.
We walked through the pricing and all the things that we would need to do in order to effectively sell our house.
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