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- Stacie Grissom and Sean Wilson bought a $175,000 schoolhouse in the small town they grew up in.
- The couple, who are high school sweethearts, lived in New York before deciding to return to Indiana.
- They fell in love with the property over FaceTime and bought it without ever seeing it in person.
For years, Stacie Grissom could never picture her and her husband moving from New York City back to their Indiana hometown.
The couple — both originally from Franklin, about 30 miles south of downtown Indianapolis — had spent 10 years living and working in NYC. Then, all of a sudden, they started to feel a longing to return home.
Grissom, 36, told Business Insider that she and Sean Wilson, 35, are high school sweethearts who grew up just three minutes apart.
“We actually went to elementary school together in this tiny old rural school,” Grissom said. “But I didn’t really talk to him because he was a year younger than me. I was friends with his sisters, and we didn’t really start talking until high school.”
The pair got together in high school and went on to tie the knot in 2015. Grissom, who used to work at dog-subscription service BarkBox, and Wilson, an orthopedic surgeon, now have two children together — Arlo, who is 3, and Margot, who is nearly 2.
“I always loved the town we grew up in, but as a 20-something, you’re like, ‘I will never move back to my hometown,'” she said. “And then the older I got, I was like, ‘Maybe our parents were kind of smart. This town’s pretty awesome.’
