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Originally Posted by austlar1
What's the deal with Delaware? Retirees?
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Low taxes and it is cheaper to live there than most states in the Northeast...especially below the canal.
Once they built the Route 1 expressway that run now from 95 all the way to the beaches, you can get up to Wilmington and Philadelphia fairly quickly. As it was being built starting in the 1990's, the housing developments starting spouting up. When I retire in 10-12 years I hope to move down close to Rehoboth Beach.
It used to take 3-4 hours prior to Route 1 being built to get to Rehoboth and Ocean City, MD. It was all local travel on Route 13 with lights that caused massive backups in Odessa, Smyrna and Dover. Now I can leave Chester County and be in Rehoboth in less than 2 hours..depending how backed up 1 is once you hit Lewes. That last 6 miles to Rehoboth can take at least a half hour in the summer depending on the day of the week and what time you are there. They even made it so you no longer hit multiple lights south of the Dover Air Force Base as that was more a local road but made it more expressway like until you hit the light where DE 16 brings in traffic from the Baltimore/Washington area.