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 Our primary motivator is the peace, quiet, quality of life and family we'd get being back up there.

Those are some rosy tinted glasses of this area there, hombre.

While day to day life might be peaceful and quiet, every time you have to drive into leesburg you'll probably want to stab yourself in the eyeballs.  Also consider that if you build a house on your family land, that money is gone, you'll never be able to sell it and get anything back out of compared to buying elsewhere.  And dont think that land wont be developed, either, the county supervisors around here have given the keys to the castle to the property/data center developers.  Hell, I'd rather just live in Leesburg proper and you can walk/bike to most everything you'd need....

Like Chris said, that's kind of what we're looking for is to get away from the burbs eventually to somewhere more private.  I lived up there for 25 years and we still visit every year so I'm aware of traffic, etc. going into Leesburg, Sterling, etc.  It is what it is, I don't mind making that drive into town and it's really not that bad compared to like Atlanta or NYC or closer to DC (15-20 minutes max via back roads or Rt. 15).  I also (right now at least) don't have to commute so it's not as big of an issue.  My mom lives in downtown historic Leesburg and it's cool and all but I'm not one to live in a city, it's just not our thing.  I can't speak for the rest of LoCo but the land around where we are is indeed protected.  Once that land is deemed historic it's not as simple as a developer giving the county a rub and tug and letting them build on it.  It pretty much has to stay what it is, indefinitely.  That's why my stubborn grandmother fought so hard for it NOT to be deemed historic, she didn't want someone telling her what she couldn't do on the land.  So we have this little oasis in the middle of protected land; it makes it much more valuable if we were to sell it.  Which gets to my last thought, if we're making that move and building a house it's not going to be for its investment value.  IE. that's going to be a very long term / forever move for us.  If we needed or decided to sell it we definitely could but that's not the goal so I'm not really concerned about it.

I'm also with DJ in that it is nice having kids in the same street that our son could play with, so that's what will probably keep us here for a little while, along with the convenience of fiber internet, shopping up the road, etc.  But we're definitely thinking more about it as a possibility in the not so distant future.

Edit: And congrats Taylor! That is awesome man! I did okay after college but it definitely took me more than 2 years to break six figures, well done!