What's it like? How often do you see your neighbors? Do people get along? Is there a lot of variety in ages and jobs, or are you all fairly similar? Empty nesters, families, young couples?
I think we have about 70 SFHs on 1/3-1/2 acre lots. Lots of tall mature trees which we love. Houses were built in the late 80s and the smallest is 3 beds/2100 sq feet and the largest is 5 beds/3500 sq feet.
We see our neighbors every so often. It's about half young families and half older families. H and I might be the only young couple with no children in the neighborhood. Most of the people who buy here aren't first time home buyers.
There's an older couple on one side that has their daughter living with them - the daughter is a couple of years older than H and I. They're really nice and the husband is always giving H tips on home ownership and letting us borrow tools. They're original owners so they know the history of our house which is awesome.
The other side is a young family with three children. They're assholes who shoot fireworks over our fence without a care. They also don't supervise their children.
Post by statlerwaldorf on Feb 6, 2013 21:06:14 GMT -5
We live in a rural area. Most of the people around here are retired. Everyone is really friendly. It's a little weird for us because most people have grown up in the area and we have not. I see our neighbors a lot when the weather is nice. They have custody of their grandchildren and I bring DD over to play. We also like to share what we grow in our gardens. The men like to drink beers in their barn and sometimes DH joins them. They also help each other on projects.
A lot of the people are retired from local factories. Most of the factories have closed. My neighbor works retail and her neighbor runs an in home daycare. All of the houses in my area were built around 1900.
Some of our neighbors are older, retired, born and raised here. As properties go up for sale a lot of them are being bought as summer homes or tear downs where the many millions of dollars from Alberta come and build newer fancier gaudier houses. It's pricey. We're really lucky to rent here, but well probably never own. We just don't have $300,000 to buy a .25 acre raw lot
We're friendly with all of our neighbors, but not bffs. When there was a wildfire bearing down on us in September (literally less than a kilometer away from our house), everyone worked together and supported each other while we were evacuating. Old school community feel, no one is left behind kind of thing.
My neighborhood is absolutely amazing (I say this after having come from a not-so-amazing neighborhood and area). It's a fairly small subdivision (at least compared to some others in this area), very nice with about 140 or so homes. All built from 1992-1994 with 2 or 3 car garages, ranging from 1800-3800 sq. ft, most with pools and on a nature preserve or pond. Generous sized lots (for a FL subdivision) and a good amount of variety (does not look cookie cutter like some of the newer neighborhoods do). I think out of the 140 homes, only about 12 others are the same model (but with varying style). So there's definitely variety.
We see a good number of our neighbors and so far like every one of them. We see neighbors with kids or dogs most often. Several neighbors keep to themselves so we don't know much about them (one of my next door neighbors for instance, has 2 kids at college so we rarely ever see them).
There's actually a good mix of age ranges from 27+. There was a pretty significant number of seniors in the neighborhood (original owners) but as they are passing on younger families are moving in (or so I was told... we're still considered the new neighbors around here). I don't think any young couples (without kids) live in the neighborhood but I could be wrong? And I don't know about the variety of jobs but it seems like we have a good mix? It's a nice established neighborhood with good people (or at least I think most of them are? I guess you never really know though, lol. I love it here. It's the perfect place to raise kids.
Good mix of people - different ages, different ethnicities, different household types. Our direct neighbors consist of one young family like ours, one family with teenagers and two empty nesters.
We have an open backyard with shared fencing - not what I would have wanted but we lucked out with some really really cool neighbors. We hang out with all of them on occasion, our son is invited over to their houses to play and vice versa.
The street itself is two streets back from the main road/subdivision entrance, so not too much traffic and our house is positioned close to the street's cul de sac where kids will meet up a lot to ride bikes and such.
We live on the rural outskirts of a tiny town (less than 700 people) in a farming community. We only have on set of true neighbors and actually share part of our driveway with them, we see them more often in the spring and summer when everyone is working in their yard and gardens. We are the young blood in our area as all of our neighbors and neighbors neighbors are retired. I see the gentleman that lives across the street every morning when I leave for work, he is reading his paper on his porch and waves he watches our house all day.
Most of the people on our road are related (which I'm related to them too) so it's a very friendly comfy community.