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Originally Posted by starsmom

We want to buy a home here in St. Mary's,with a absolute limit of 220,000. After looking on the Eastern Shore,this seemed to be an easy task,but here it is near impossible. Thus far most properties are in the dumpy areas of GM road,Essex,Patuxent homes,etc. But one thing I have noticed quite a bit is a HUGE number of reasonably priced homes in San Souci. I have never really thought of that area as being "bad",am I wrong? Is it more ghetto than I thought? Or is it maybe just an older area? We considered rolling through there at varying times of week,and day,to get a better scope of the neighborhood. If we find nothing decent here,our next option is moving to the Eastern Shore,to Salisbury. I am undecided - have any of you lived there/maybe went to school there and can give some info about the area? We chose that location because of the proximity to the ocean since we travel there often and also for the low cost of living,but that low cost must be for a reason. To me,there is not much to do here,and I sure would not want to go there and find a worse situation.

If you can hold out for another 6 months or so, I do believe that the prices will be dropping lower before it gets any better.