10/20/2026
Here is the one piece of advice I give everyone looking in a city they do not know yet.
You will see the house on a Saturday. Quiet street, easy parking, sun out. Then you move in and discover what it is like at 7:40 on a Tuesday, when the school run and the commute and the trash collection all arrive in the same twenty minutes.
So go back. Once at 7:40 in the morning, once around six in the evening. You will have seen the street at its two worst moments, and if it still feels right then you have actually learned something.
It costs you one morning. It is the cheapest thing you will ever do in this process.