The areas we are looking at are the NW quadrant and SW quadrant from Charlotte. Out of town with at least an acre prefer 5 or more. I don't want to live in a city...
Compared to TX property is cheaper in the Charlotte area and much of it is better taken care of. Overall the cost of living is higher because the income taxes in either NC or SC. I had read that NC was trying to phase them out if so then we will be looking to live there.
As for the water subject I picked up a 40 gallon or so pressure tank off craigslist for $10 so it'll be ganged to the existing small one. So the pump will have a better duty cycle. Need to put up some solar panels for it though... Still electricity is cheaper than buying water from the city. It's less than 1/3 the cost.
I have thought of getting about 6-8 totes and putting them behind the shop. Then doing the elec plan where electricity is free from 10pm to 6am and put a timer on the pump to let it fill them at night. Electricity is free but you still pay the tax(now where is that AC battery...). Then have a second pump to run the sprinkler system.
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