As Dave and I get closer to buying our first home (we’re thinking within the next couple of years, hopefully?), we’ve been talking a lot about where we want to live. There are several options, and we’re pretty excited about them all. We want to somehow stay near the beach (perhaps peruse some folly beach homes for sale – our dream home would be RIGHT on the beach, of course, but whose isn’t?!), but definitely near family. We’ve talked also about making our home as “green” as possible, with self-heated floors and walls so we don’t waste electricity, and solar energy to light our home, and everything re-manufactured and recycled. We’ve seen it done, so we’re hoping that one day we’d be able to own our very own earthship. I don’t think we’d be able to do it with our next home, but maybe the one after that when we’ve saved enough money to actually build our own home by the beach and have it free of energy costs (both financially and environmentally). It would be so cool. It’s an exciting time, when we start talking about buying a home and stuff.