Hah! I may have accidentally convinced my dad to buy a retirement house in Pike County. I happen to be telling him how cheap land is in parts - about $500 (that's five HUNdred) per acre, and that my brother-in-law bought a four-bedroom farmhouse with a couple acres in Summer Hill for $28,000. You can still buy shotgun houses in Rockport for $10,000. Also, since they put the superhighway through that now passes north of Pittsfield on it's way to Hannibal, MO, land values there are going to explode as people move out from Springfield which is about 50 miles from Pittsfield but is now a straight shot down an Interstate. After all this discussion, he's going to drive over there to look into it. (He lives in Bloomington-Normal).