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Small-town charm holds special place in Milton resident’s heart

November 25, 2017

Southern Delaware natives and longtime residents have no doubt heard stories like Sue Huntington's before – tales of people who grew up visiting the Delaware beaches in their youth, before moving to the area permanently in later years.

But her story is a bit different – she may live in historic Milton now, but there are things she observes and people she encounters every day that remind her of a certain small town in central Pennsylvania where she lived as a young girl.

And after wrapping up a career working for the United States government, that's exactly what she was looking for.

"I grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania called Nescopeck, which is south of Scranton, and Milton reminds me of my hometown every day," said Huntington, now nearly one year into her second career with the Oldfather Group of Ocean Atlantic Sotheby's International Realty. "It's a great small town where everybody knows each other and seems to really care about the well-being of their friends and neighbors."

Huntington and her husband Bill purchased a home in Milton in 2015 and relocated to the area full time the following year. The move followed several years working for the United States Department of Justice in both Washington, D.C., and in West Virginia.

A new life in coastal Delaware was exactly what the doctor ordered in her retirement, though she always expected she would go back to work at some point and in some capacity. Huntington was never one to sit and watch the world go by, and the opportunity for getting back into the workforce presented itself almost immediately upon her move to coastal Delaware.

Since November 2016, Huntington has been coordinating home inspections, working with contractors, tracking settlements and performing countless other functions in her duties as a client success team coordinator with one of southern Delaware's largest and most successful real estate firms. She was offered the job not long after purchasing her home through the Oldfather Group.

"My husband told me I had to take the summer off after moving here, so that's what I did," said Huntington with a chuckle. "But I knew I wouldn't be able to sit still for long. So, when I saw the Oldfather Group was looking for someone, I reached out to them and they offered me the job."

Now 57 years old and less than a year-and-a-half into her "retirement," Huntington said establishing a new life in coastal Delaware was the right decision for her, her husband and their 12-year-old cockapoo Maddie. For the Pennsylvania native, it's all about small-town togetherness, living near the beaches and helping clients achieve the American dream of homeownership in coastal Delaware.

"I really love living here, and I know we made the right choice when it came to where we wanted to be after leaving government work," she said. "I'm helping people buy their retirement homes or their beach homes, and that's definitely a good thing."

The Oldfather Group was founded in 2004 and specializes in real estate sales throughout coastal Delaware, including Lewes, Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach, Bethany Beach and Fenwick Island, as well as the coastal Maryland towns of Ocean City and Berlin, and now northern New Castle County and parts of eastern Pennsylvania.

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