What does your street look like?

[sylvie]

My road was listed in the average $90,000 income level a few years back. It looks quite different now.
Out of 12 homes this is how it adds up:
3 homes- one spouse employed and one unemployed
2 homes- disabled on SSD
4 homes - total unemployment
1 home -retired on injury settlement
1 home- vacant- brand new, on market for 2 years w/o sale
1 home- vacant- in contested probate for 3 yrs after death of owner

There are no senior citizens living on our road.
Those working are not going to be keen on a favor-barter system given the dynamics.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

How do you know your neighbor's old income level?

I haven't been in my neighborhood long enough to have inside information on who makes what or even if they are employed. I think one house has recently lost the only income they had, but I don't know for sure. I just don't see them driving to work or home from work anymore. :/

 

[big brown horse]

Mine road is a private (wash-board bumpy) dirt road about 1/2 mile long with a dead end.

We have:
1 sketchy house (the token sketchy house with sheets or tin foil over all the windows Sadly it is the first house you see when you turn onto our road. The rest of the homes look nice tho.)

a tiny, little private nursing home that looks like a house,

7 (mine included) homes with families living in them, one parent works atleast. One family is home schooling.

a home with a retired gentleman, whose wife lives 1/2 the year in their Hawaii home. (he's my favorite neighbor "Mr. Ben") Mr. Ben showed me how to clean my chimney and he also keeps an eye out for strangers or anyone else who drives too fast down our street.

a home with empty nesters, husband works, wife stays home.

ETA: don't know the income level either.

 

[noobiechickenlady]

Oh, this made me laugh out loud. I have a crazy mix.
On my street I have the former sheriff, the former mayor/current coroner, the head deacon of a local church, a current maryjane botanist, the town's most outspoken opposition to the previously mentioned church, a wreck of an abandoned house with bees living in the back wall, the constable, a homeschooling multi-generational family, a retired couple (Mom & dad), my family and the closed down restaurant where I got my first job.

 

[big brown horse]

Oh, this made me laugh out loud. I have a crazy mix.
On my street I have the former sheriff, the former mayor/current coroner, the head deacon of a local church, a current maryjane botanist, the town's most outspoken opposition to the previously mentioned church, a wreck of an abandoned house with bees living in the back wall, the constable, a homeschooling multi-generational family, a retired couple (Mom & dad), my family and the closed down restaurant where I got my first job.

Now that is an interesting street!

 

[Wifezilla]

The house on one side of me just went in to foreclosure.
The house on the other side has been for sale for 6 months. A single guy lives there.
On the other side of the foreclosure is an older couple with an adult son who still lives with them. All 3 of them work.
Across the street is;
a rental
a house with a young family (wife works. don't think the husband has a job)
a childless couple (husband is a plumbing contractor, wife takes care of her parents)
a prison guard and his wife. I think their middle child (20) still lives with them
and a widow (husband died of cancer last year)

 

[inchworm]

Can't speak for the whole street, but in my little section:

My neighbor to the north is a family that has been struggling for years due to a child who had to have a bone marrow transplant. The child is doing well, but they struggle with their finances and mom had to stay home to care for the child for awhile. Both parents work now, but the home has been up for sale for quite a long time.

Across the street to the north is a young family. Dad seems to work some kind of shift work. Mom works. They built the house on family property fairly recently, so I don't know them.

Across the street to the south is a retired man and his wife who still works as a teacher. The neighbor to the south is an elderly couple that works. Their working daughter and her child lives with them. Behind them is another house with another child and his wife. Their kids are grown. They all work.

The house further south was purchased last year in foreclosure.

My family has dh who works full time and I homeschool the kids while working very, very part time from home.

The economy here is doing better than elsewhere, mainly because we are within commuting distance of Washington, D.C.

I am usually the only person home in the area during the day.

 

[sylvie]

How do you know your neighbor's old income level?

Haines Directory

All inside info came from a street party where info is readily exchanged and some were trying to network for jobs, lol!

ETA now that I think of it real estate agents have access to that info and our county posts it on their GIS site.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Oh boy, Sylvie . . . that street party talk would be TMI for me.

 

[sylvie]

Oh boy, Sylvie . . . that street party talk would be TMI for me.

Absolutely too much sharing!