I Think We Found Our New House

Sufficiently close to Kingsport to be on city water but in forested mountains.  The driveway is steep enough that we will probably uaes ice tires in winter. It is about an acre with a 36' x 18'  salt-water system pool. It has an 20' x 30' shop.with a garage door leading out to an adequately wide enough expanse of sky. Other parts of the property are forested. I may need to pour a level concrete driveway for the telescopes.

It is fully fenced for the dogs. 

It is nominally 2671 sq. ft.; a little small. It has a substantial partially finished basement with a bathroom but no windows. While the staircase down to this part is scary enough that we will probably hire an engineer to design a less scary staircase (turn in half on way down losing a small amount of room), that can wait for old house to sell. The basement connects to the garage which has a less worrisome staircase.  We will add banisters to the left side on both staircases also. It looks like a two car garage but one bay is so deep that two cars will fit head to tail. $489,000.

There are lots of houses for sale here. Many are impressively beautiful in a ostentatious way like my current house but too many staircases for us to enjoy.

Some are just weird. This house had the most impressive view:

Unfortunately, it was on a cliff. It was mildly scary looking down. The oartially finished basement had a 15' ceiling. It was bigger than some houses we have owned. There were doors leading to sections that were not even quite at the partially finished stage. $620,000 for a showpiece where our dogs would not have a yard.