As a former college student up there, location doen't matter one bit. It's too small of a town to be worried about how far do we have to go. Used to go to Schmitt's corner all the time, Monte Carlo, snowmobile club in Atlantic Mine. Now in Green Bay I drive farther just for dinner and I haven't even left town yet!
"location doen't matter one bit":
Yep, you nailed it!
As a 'nuther "toot" from da Tech (ca. 1958-1964), without a car, I yoosta occasionally
walk the ≈2.5 miles each way from the east end of the MTU campus to the old Orpheum Theater in Hancock (as mentioned in John's journal of December 10, 2017, now The Studio Pizza, 426 Quincy St, Hancock) and back — in the winter even.
For the first year or so before the current lift bridge was opened for business in Dec 1959, that meant crossing the old swing bridge with it's rotting, loose and broken wooden (snow covered in winter) pedestrian walkways (that was a bit of a hair-raising winter thrill!).
But yeah that's steep for Hancock. Maybe Chad could chime in he's in that neighborhood.
"that's steep for Hancock":
I've seen that fairly frequently in da Yoop, some folks that are not particularly "highly motivated" to sell will set a price in that range, perhaps in the hopes that some (click →)
J.L.Gotrocks (YouTube video, 1 min. + 5 sec.) from "Ill-a-noise" or wherever, with more money than brains might just blow into town and buy it for such an inflated price. But the price is usually quite negotiable.
