House Hunting

I love this picture. It nicely encapsulates my hopes and unrealistic wishes for a dream home. Our own house hunting has been decidedly less optimistic. That said, we've recently take a new approach. In addition to entering into a short term lease for a home in our current ward (with less living space but a huge yard), we have decided to look at every community within a 25 mile radius of my office. We've narrowed things down considerably based on schools, affordability, etc., but its still quite a list. We took a tour of South Bay on Sunday evening and enjoyed ourselves. Something romantic about living in a community with "Beach" in its name (Manhattan, Hermosa and Redondo being candidates). We're pretty skeptical of it all at this point, but part of me just can't let go of the thought that we'll pull over a hill or around a corner on one of these trips and find our perfect piece of the American dream!