Opinions on Red Hook? - USVI Moving Center

First off, hello everyone. This is my first post here, though I have been enjoying all of your insight and searching on this fomum for about 60 days now. It's so nice to see so many people willing to share their time in helping others who want to be, or are in the process of becoming, their neighbors. Have actually enjoyed reading AandAtoVI's saga - like they were, we were initially focused on St Croix but after a PMV there are targeting St Thomas.

So after visiting St Croix a few weeks ago and seeing several houses (and having close to 20 hours on the St Croix MLS, using a STX Realtor), we decided STX is just not for us. It was just way to quiet and seemingly desolate for us. We are 'town' people - we like to go out to restaurants all the time, we like activity, and while I always considered us laid back, compared to Crucians we are apparently quite uptight ;-)

It was a very good experience, however, and we've been searcing the St. Thomas MLS since we got back 2 weeks ago and really decided that we really liked the Red Hook area, and Nazareth. 90+% of the homes that meet our selection criteria are in Mahogony Run, Frenchman's Bay, or Nazareth -- but while I LOVE golf (live on a course in MI) it seemed that was really all that area had going on, it's cooler, and had mildew issues. Frenchman's Bay looked nice, but not "neighborhoody" enough for us. We have a 4 year old and being in an area where he can make friends is very important to us (we want to make friends too of course). This is one of the biggest reasons that the Red Hook area was so appealing to us - we'd like to have a 'town' (I know it's not technically a city) quite close by to hang out in and enjoy life in that is safe to be in after the sun sets, and almost anywhere you are in Nazareth you are within walking distance to a fabulous beach.

Any opinions about the area? We're going for our STT PMV in less than 2 weeks, and are going to stay at Secret Harbor. My wife is in the process of selecting a STT Buyer's Agent, but if anyone has a strong recommendation please pipe up - we'd want someone familiar with the Red Hook area, and with single homes in the median range for the areas (not condos). We have 3 houses we're planning to see when we go (unless you all persuade us otherwise about the area) - would love any comments - again a big part for us is having kids nearby for our four year old to play with, so knowing what parts of the area are more family style versus empty nesters would be a big help.

BTW, I know most new folks are told not to buy something, and to rent first for a year, but in our case we've seen every house the the MLS on the island 5 times over, and there are really only 2 or 3 we're interested in. Given that we're only going to have a new house that fits us come on line every 4 months or so, we don't mind taking a risk and buying before we move. We'd plan to spend our summers in Michigan anyway (Michigan is absolutely wonderful in the summer, and the sun doesn't set until 9:30 in June and July), so if it didn't pan out we would just rent the house all full-time instead of just in the summer. In terms of job we're all set; as long as we like STT I'll be starting a new company based in the east end of St. Thomas in the fall.

Thanks first off for all of your past comments - I've done a lot of post searches here and really enjoyed your perspecives and candor (I don't mind negative comments at all). Appeciate very much any opinions you all have. We've lived our whole lives in a 50 mile circle and instead of "when we retire we'll......" we're trying to take a leap and do it now when were 40 and still have [hopefully] most of our lives ahead of us.

Cheers,

Chris (and Nicole)

Source: http://www.vimovingcenter.com/talk/read.php?4,196635,196635

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