I’m shocked at how reasonably priced it is given how it looks on the outside.

Oooh this is a good one thanks!

Yeah that’s been on my list for a while! I’ll suggest it, but I think that might be little too far north from the where they’re driving from.

I was worried about this. I’m not up till July, but I don’t wanna send my old ones back! I want to keep them - the end of an era.

Same. I’m not entirely sure of the inventory, but I do think there will be less choice in Bristol for homes with multiple acres. I like Bristol better in general, but E Greenwich probably has better inventory matching OP’s wants. Plus as someone else mentioned, Bristol is more isolated depending on how you want to enjoy the rest of the state and surrounding areas.

There’s some white building in Pawtuxet Village near the bridge that looks abandoned but I’ve never seen a for sale sign. I’ve always thought it would be a great place for a brewery or modern coffee shop. Probably a larger space than OP is looking for though.

Might look in to old small graveyards, as long as you’re not trespassing to get to them. IIRC one graveyard here has a “vampire” buried in it and one has a “witch” that cursed the whole town. I think the witch’s grave is somewhere in Foster, which isn’t too far from Burrillville.

I’ll take the minisplit advice tho…

Omg haven’t thought about this place in ages lol

Yeah for sure. I’ve lived in 5 states (Colorado too) and two other countries on two other continents. New England isn’t my absolute favorite, but it does have a quaint vibe, and if you have even middle class money, it’s wonderful. RI is just south enough that winters aren’t terrible (we barely got snow this year). If you’re young, living right near downtown Providence or in Newport might be super fun, but if you consider buying in the future, there’s so many cute small towns that are still not far from everything. Honestly in the summer, all the cute little villages in the small coastal towns are just as popular as “the city.” IMO, one year is not enough time to do everything and make a decision about staying long term or not. Like I said, Boston, the Cape, NYC, the mountains and coastal Maine are all things you’d probably want to check out too.

What are you actually looking for though? RI and CT have opportunities that range from being a 5 minute drive from a small city, to living in suburbs, to living quite rural. If you want to be within a 10 minute drive to a downtown as well as close to the water, yeah, that’s going to be expensive. I live just over the border of the Providence line (I own) and I occasionally look at Zillow for funsies and it’s crazy to me that I could theoretically rent my house for 2300 which is the rate in my neighborhood (I pay 1500 for my mortgage, bought in 2021). New England is an expensive place to rent in. We have a shit load of great colleges that are geared toward (let’s be real) rich white kids, and their parents will pay $$$ to rent for them, driving up prices. We have low crime, great schools, good hospitals…and in RI, you’re like an hour-ish from Boston, one to two hours from Cape Cod, three hours from NYC, and can drive to New Hampshire or Vermont for weekend mountain getaways, or up to Maine for a foodie weekend in Portland. Sorry for the long post, but I think it’s probably worth understanding that New England is not some secret place no one knows about. It’s a huge rich person summer playground depending on where you are. It can still be quite affordable in a lot of areas, but it’s going to be incredibly hard to find those opportunities from the west coast, because as someone else mentioned, everything here is “I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy.” And just so you know where I’m coming from, I’ve lived in Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, and now Rhode Island. If you think you might be moving to New England for the long haul, RI is, imo, probably the best investment just because of how centrally located it is from the major cities in the northeast. Much much easier to be here if you have the ability to WFH from one of the major cities.

Check out Rhode Island Monthly’s website. I get the magazine and check the website often. There’s a lot of random things like festivals and markets that I found out about through them. A lot if it is geared toward warmer weather, but there’s some good stuff on there.

Don’t forget Family Guy.

I grew up in Maine and the first time I went to Florida at age 12, some kid in the pool and I were talking and he said he thought Maine was in Canada and then asked me if we had indoor plumbing. I am not shocked people don’t know RI exists.

I’ve lived here for years and somehow never knew there was a ferry to Newport. Now I have something to add to my summer list!

I was gonna say go to Maine lol. Off season Provincetown is my favorite. I’ve never been in the summer.

Not last night but a few nights ago when it rained I definitely smelled something off (I live in Cranston). It smelled like a weird mix of mold and smoke, but not in an obvious smokey way if that makes sense.