She was shocked when she started looking at homes in the area, and learned that you could buy a charming Georgian style four-bedroom and four-bathroom house of about 4,500 sq.ft on a 1,5 acre lot, buried in trees and having very tasteful landscape design, for just 425,000, saying that this kind of a house would be priced at 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 in Southern Orange County, CA. To finish our conversation, I had her check out the local taxes in Rocky Mount, just one example, property tax: only 0.12%; utility bracket is also one of the most cost effective in the country. She finished our conversation by saying that she was off to pack her bags.