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new home neighborhoods- ugh!
DH are talking about potentially getting a new house. Potentially being the important word. We did a little looking around at some neighborhoods this weekend, builders are ridiculous. It's absolutely crazy how close together they put the houses, doesn't matter if they are big houses or are small houses it's all the same. They try to squeeze as many as they can into as little space as possible. I don't want to be able to reach out my window and hand my neighbor a cup of sugar through their window. slight exageration but not much. For the money these houses cost, it's be nice have a little space on the outside as well as inside.
Re: new home neighborhoods- ugh!
We ended up buying a thirty year old house b/c of that. We wanted a bigger lot and real trees rather than .1 acre with one scraggly Bradford pear in the front.
I agree. When we were house hunting we drove through so many communities hoping to find a new(er) home but so many of the homes were just right on top of each other. We just couldn't see ourselves in those communities, not to mention that so many of them are cookie cutter homes. We settled on a house in an older subdivision (but no HOA!) and we have over 1/2 an acre. We couldn't be happier.
Could you guys look for a lot that isn't in one of those developer communities and build your own home?
I agree--when DH and I were looking for our home, we didn't even consider new construction for that reason--also around here (triad) especially it seems that developers are in such dire straights that things like "sod" and "trees"--ie ANY kind of landscaping are extras that people should have to go and buy from them--and in mass built homes like that, the landscaping is really the ONLY thing that differentiates one home from the next. Plus, I really don't like the fact that they build so many all at once--how much time and effort do you think any of the sub contrators paid to make your house special in any kind of way? (the answer is zero)
I like the fact that my 92 year old neighbor watched my house get built back in the 50s--that it was the only house in our neighborhood being built at the time, and that there's no house like mine in our neighborhood--in fact, there aren't 2 identical homes at all in my neighborhood.
I think there are upsides and downsides to both. Sometimes I can see the advantage of having very little yard, low maintenance, everything crisp and new. On the other end of that I've seen so much of poor construction, cheap building materials, corners cut, etc.
While I would love to upgrade some things, I think I prefer my 1983 house on multiple acres in an old neighborhood to cookie cutters without character.
Yes, we also had to go with an older neighborhood because of that. The 'yard' you get with most of these newer houses is ridiculous.