No Desert or Beach for This Kid!

11/8/13: NO DESERT OR BEACH FOR THIS KID!
  I long to live in the mountains once again but hesitate to leave family and top-notch medical services as far behind as I must in order to move back to Big Pine, CA. Not going back to Big Pine will mean giving up Eastern Sierra friends, though.
  So I went online to check out real estate in Alpine and Julian, CA. In Julian, there's a very small cabin for sale on a half-acre of wooded land! Built in 1930, it sports a big deck where I can see myself sleeping on warm summer nights. There'd be room to park Maybelline and Harriet, and the cats would love it! I feel so excited that I know I must go lie down and wait for the fit to pass before I leap once more into a situation I cannot bear, like the one I feel I'm in now.
  Link: http://www.julianrealty.com/julian-homes/julian-real-estate.html. Guess which one it is.
  I'm keeping a list of the things I must ask before committing any foolish moves. Julian was the first place I thought of moving to when I contemplated moving to San Diego County, but I chose instead to move as near my sister as possible. I can just see it now: I move in on a bunch of unhappy black widows and termites to an uninsulated house with single-pane windows and an outhouse.
  And that would be ANOTHER (Not So) SMART MOVE FOR ANT KATHY!
11/10/13: FIRST STEPS?
  Over at Ian and Shea's last night, enjoying some play time with Aidan plus an excellent meal, we got into a discussion of tiny homes. They were excited about my hopes of finding a place in Julian, as they are very fond of it!
  Then we talked about a lot I've seen online, supposed to be in Julian. It looks to be the southeast corner of Knob Hill and Highland drives, which meet there after forming a sort of eye-shaped loop with a blue-green water tank on the northwest end. It looks as if there's at least some clear, fairly level land there with at least one pine tree on it, where I could build a tiny home. The Mica/Popomo expanded to 24 feet seems a possibility.
  If I were to acquire the lot, then, I think the first steps would be to engage Shea's services (or those of someone she recommends) to assess the fire potential and the environmental impact of placing a tiny home-on-a-trailer her and to ask my insurance guy what the fire insurance would be on this quarter-acre of mixed chaparral-pine land.
  If adequate solutions can be found to those questions, then it's on to bringing in utilities (water, electricity, sanitation, propane?, telephone, DSL), two of which are supposed to be at the street  -- what do they do for sewage in Julian? -- and erecting a shed for tiny-home materials (will also include water heater, toilet, shower, and maybe a washer-dryer), plus a light carport-type structure. The shed will need a cat flap.
  The cats and I will live in Maybelline while I'm building, definitely with the help of people stronger and more knowledgeable than I. That includes…just about everyone I know.
LATER ON
  Maybe I should buy the cabin at 2760 Lakeview Drive and live in it while I'm building my tiny home. I think I may like the land there better. The two properties aren't that far apart. And a seasonal creek isn't all that bad. But $185,000 is INSANE.
  Would it be more cost-effective to buy the cabin or to buy the land and then build (or have built) a tiny home? I need help to assess this. Also, if and when I build, whom shall I be displacing? Is there any way to help the critters find new homes?
  Also, I have to remember that one of my goals is to have a House To Go so if I get sick and tired of one place, I can move it to another.