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Magdalene Landegent, weighing in at 220,000 pounds and stretching 38 feet across two lanes of traffic.  The former St. Joseph Church rectory from Le Mars made its way on a 17-mile journey to its new home northeast of Hinton where the Ken and Donna Bliek family will live in it.

“It’s a strange feeling watching your house move down the road.”

That’s what Donna Bliek said last Wednesday after seeing her new 220,000 pound home lumbering down Highway 3. In August, she and her husband Ken Bliek purchased the former St. Joseph Church rectory, a massive brick house located in north-eastern Le Mars with plans to move it to land near Hinton and make it their family home.  This week, those plans became reality.

Movers hoisted the building, stripped of its brick exterior and a small addition, onto wheels and manoeuvred it on a 17-mile journey to its new foundation on Jade Avenue 2 miles northeast of Hinton. Move U, a structure-moving company based in Kingsley and Sioux City, started moving the house Tuesday, but it was slow going because the ground was soft. “The biggest obstacle has been the rain,” said Tim Badgerow, of Move U.  At 7 a.m. Wednesday, the crew was back to work. MidAmerican Energy crews, along with six of their lift trucks, joined them on the scene to take down electrical wires in the way or raise them up to allow the 30-foot tall house to pass.

Two hours later, a semi-tractor pulled the former rectory the two blocks to Highway 3.

It was time to hit the road.

The route was a round-about one to get to Hinton. The house left town heading east on Highway 3, then south on Nature Avenue and other gravel roads to K-49, then C-44 to K-42, and finally onto Jade Avenue.  Badgerow said that route was best based on how many electrical wires they’d have to cross. The rambling journey took more than five hours.

“We go whatever speed we can, but on average we get about 5-7 mph,” Badgerow said. Law enforcement officers stopped traffic ahead of the house, which at 38 feet wide took up both lanes. Electric crews travelled with the caravan and moved wires as needed. “I was surprised it took so long,” Bliek said. “I guess it’s never a hurried up deal when you’re doing something like that.” The Blieks brought their three daughters, whom they home school, to watch their new house move. “It looks big going down the road,” Bliek said. “We’re anxious to get in it. We’ll be moving the addition maybe next week and move in hopefully next month sometime. There’s a lot of reconnecting to do.”

St. Joseph Church’s parish had been seeking to move the rectory to allow for construction of a new church in a few years. The rectory was built in the 1970s. A 1905 school building, located next to the former rectory, was demolished last summer to make room for the new, larger church as well.

Bliek said her family was thankful for sunshine after waiting through weeks of rainy weather to move the house.  “It was a beautiful day for it,” Bliek said. “And we’re thankful for all the help. Everybody was pitching in. There were a lot of men out there working.”  For Move U, transporting a structure this big is all a day’s work, Badgerow said. “We’ll be moving the Hinton golf clubhouse later this month,” he said. “We do this every day.”

Full article at:

www.lemarssentinel.com

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Married couples are more likely to leave a neighbourhood if the woman dislikes it than if her husband has a problem.

Married couples are more likely to leave a neighbourhood if the woman dislikes it than if her husband has a problem. Researchers believe this may be because the woman spends more time there.

The decision is more to do with the perception of a neighbourhood than its reality, according to the study from Essex University.

More than 4,000 households in 30,000 areas across the country were surveyed, with the research finding a “big difference” between the sexes when it came to influencing decisions about whether to re-locate.

The team looked at whether people moved for subjective reasons such as liking their neighbourhood - or used more “established objective criteria” such as crime rates and employment opportunities.

Head researcher Dr Mark Taylor said: “Couples were more likely to move if the woman disliked the neighbourhood.

“The study does not tell us why that is, but we can make some educated guesses.

“Mine would be that it is about relative amounts of time spent in the home or neighbourhood. On average, it is the woman who spends more time there.” 

The study, published as part of a research paper called ‘Residential mobility, neighbourhood quality and life-course events’ also found that for singles and couples, many ‘life-course events’ such as taking up a new job, partnership break-up, a child leaving home and leaving the parental home were associated with moving house.

Among the “objective” measures of neighbourhood deprivation, crime and the quality of the local environment both within and beyond the home were most important, the researchers added.

Ceasing to live with parents or having a child leave home was associated with single people moving into more deprived neighbourhoods.

“Life-course events like having a baby, losing a job or splitting up are often associated with moving house,” Dr Taylor added.

“But not much is known about the effect that these types of events have on whether people move to a ‘better’ or ‘worse’ neighbourhood.

“This is quite surprising because research suggests that neighbourhood characteristics influence important outcomes such as life satisfaction, health and employment.”

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