That's the route to take then, for sure. "Local to you" has value if there's ever an issue with the gear-set or a bearing failure.
I think its this NoVA area. I've never lived here, but my woman and I moved here this past year after we got back from our deployment. That deployment cash was the only way we were able to afford the down payment on the house. Im not weaving a tale of terrible woe about being broke or anything, we're doing just fine, but we're fine because we deploy. There's just so much money around here that I don't think Joe and Susie Q. NoVA bat an eye at paying insane rates and don't know any better. I've kicked out HVAC techs, plumbers, etc for trying to charge *hourly* labor rates of $8-900; and these were major companies you see all over the area...so people are paying it. Don't get me wrong, I guess if you can get it, charge it. But don't look at me cross eyed offended because I'm not an idiot.
That's the way our Moorseville, Oak Ridge, and several other areas around here are, too. With all the NASCAR, Banking in Charlotte, and the Furniture Market here, people will try to take advantage. Little Kernersville and the majority of the Triad is pretty good. Places like Lake Norman and Asheville are beyond terrible.
