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Neighborhood problem turns violent
shardian:
--- Quote from: Wade on August 05, 2008, 04:20:23 pm ---
We have great neighbors!! The house next door is for sale, move into our neighborhood!
This is the reason we bought a house in the neighborhood we did. We dealt with so much crap in the neighborhood where I grew up that my wife and I made being in a "nice" neighborhood a serious priority. Best you can do is buy a house in an expensive neighborhood where the riff raff can't afford to live, not that there are any guarantees of course. We got really lucky and hopefully our nice neighbors will be around a long time. Knowing their situations and backgrounds I suspect they will be, except for the old lady selling the house next door. I'm praying another nice family moves in there.
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I like the area up there, but another priority is that we live in a flat neighborhood. It's probably out of my price range anyways.
Man it sucks when the nice neighbors move away. We had awesome neighbors across the street, but the husband got transferred to the Carolina's. The new neighbors are Tennessee rednecks and let their kids run wild. Nice kids, but damn they don't have a manner to split between them.
Nice neighborhoods can turn crappy pretty quick. We learned that with our neighborhood. Hopefully the reverse is also true - that ---smurfy--- neighborhoods can turn good again. Somehow I doubt it.
ChadTower:
We loved the guy across our sidestreet when we moved in. Great guy, nice to our kids, when my wife was in her car accident he was actually out there faster than I was. Sadly he passed on a couple of years ago. The guy who is in that house now actually walks away when you try to introduce yourself to him. At least he's quiet and his lawn is kept better than mine.
Wade:
--- Quote from: shardian on August 05, 2008, 04:31:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: Wade on August 05, 2008, 04:20:23 pm ---
We have great neighbors!! The house next door is for sale, move into our neighborhood!
This is the reason we bought a house in the neighborhood we did. We dealt with so much crap in the neighborhood where I grew up that my wife and I made being in a "nice" neighborhood a serious priority. Best you can do is buy a house in an expensive neighborhood where the riff raff can't afford to live, not that there are any guarantees of course. We got really lucky and hopefully our nice neighbors will be around a long time. Knowing their situations and backgrounds I suspect they will be, except for the old lady selling the house next door. I'm praying another nice family moves in there.
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I like the area up there, but another priority is that we live in a flat neighborhood. It's probably out of my price range anyways.
Man it sucks when the nice neighbors move away. We had awesome neighbors across the street, but the husband got transferred to the Carolina's. The new neighbors are Tennessee rednecks and let their kids run wild. Nice kids, but damn they don't have a manner to split between them.
Nice neighborhoods can turn crappy pretty quick. We learned that with our neighborhood. Hopefully the reverse is also true - that ---smurfy--- neighborhoods can turn good again. Somehow I doubt it.
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You won't find a flat neighborhood around here, that's for sure. You really have to leave town or be IN town to do that in Charleston.
Yeah, things can change. We had a couple neighbors come and go (Dow employees) before these settled in. They were fine, but not as nice as the folks around now.
A huge key is avoiding a neighborhood that has rental houses or apartments. There's always a big turnover, and typically the people who live in rentals aren't the people you want for neighbors, anyway. Every house that turns into a rental basically sucks value out of every home around it. We had several in my old neighborhood and Katie's childhood neighborhood, though I don't think hers was as bad as mine overall.
Wade
shardian:
According to the Homeowners Preisdent, who sends out the association bills, pretty much all of the homes in the neighborhood are owned by the occupants. I think there may be 1 or 2 rentals up on top of the hill, but they might as well be in a different state up there.
Wade:
--- Quote from: shardian on August 06, 2008, 08:16:09 am ---According to the Homeowners Preisdent, who sends out the association bills, pretty much all of the homes in the neighborhood are owned by the occupants. I think there may be 1 or 2 rentals up on top of the hill, but they might as well be in a different state up there.
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That's a really good sign, and surprising (rentals had taken over everywhere I've lived before). I guess it's just unfortunate you have a few jackasses in there. :(
Wade
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