bostonwinetasters.com

0 Comments | Capital, Aug 31, 2008

Eric Bentley doesn’t go home after work these days. Instead of braving the Bay Bridge to get back to his house on Kent Island, he’s been staying at his mother-in-law’s in Silver Spring on weeknights.

And one day last week, he started browsing the Internet for real estate listings in Anne Arundel County. He’s considering selling or renting out his Stevensville home, a decision he said is “killing me.”

“That’s where I wanted to raise my family,” Mr. Bentley said Friday.

He bought the small house 12 years ago, when he was single. He’s now married with three children, the oldest one 6 and the youngest 5 months. He’s spent countless hours on the home, adding a sunroom, a deck and a new roof and redoing about every room.

“I don’t want to move,” Mr. Bentley said. “I wish I could pick my house up and put it someplace else – someplace on the western shore – until this goes away.

“But that’s the thing. I’m not sure it’s ever going to go away.”

“This,” of course, is the repair work, newly discovered corrosion and ever-increasing traffic making a commute across the Bay Bridge a nightmare.

Mr. Bentley, 47, builds satellite guidance systems at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt