What does your street look like?

[Henrietta23]

We live on a provincial highway... but the only reason there is a 'highway' is that there is a logging operation at the end, and they have now drilled for natural gas in the clearcut.

We're halfway between town and the clearcut, about 15 miles from either.

In our little portion of the road we have one family (owns the liquor store in the town) who has a cow, a horse, and two children.

One nosy neighbour that likes to know everything that happens to everyone, he calls himself the unofficial mayor of Pollett River.

One family on welfare (we are buying their second house from them), who has the nicest house in the area... the government has given them a new roof, new well and new septic in the last year... while I struggle to pay them a mortgage and keep my house warm. That drives me crazy...

We have one hermit, who actually lives in a cabin WAY in the woods, but walks out of the woods and picks up his paper in a mailbox in the middle of a forested area of the road... he is 80 years old, and loves my dogs.

One sketchy party house, that every night all summer plays LOUD music, and screaming laughing people who are obviously very drunk... I have no idea which of these people actually own the house.

Our next door neighbour moved here from Ontario, the rumours were that she was going to make her house entirely self sufficient energy wise, but I haven't seen anything like that and it's been a year. She did replace the oil furnace with a wood one, but we never actually see her outside.

And one homesteader, they have one donkey, 6 goats, several chickens, ducks and turkeys... the donkey brays every morning at sunrise, much louder than any rooster

That sounds really nice! Without the drunks anyway.

 

[dragonlaurel]

My street has the mountain with nature trails twisting through it on one side and a set of projects on the other.
This building is for retired or disabled people (my DH is) so this building is it's own little world.

 

[Iceblink]

Wow, I feel pretty lucky. The houses on my side of the street are all at least 90 years old, and my neighbors have lived in them their whole lives. I feel like I moved into a community of grandparents. They are the children of immigrants, or the grandchildren of (real) homesteaders. They are all happy about my little farm, since that is what they all did growing up, and they have told me it makes them feel like they live in the country again.

The other side of the street (we live on the top/middle of a T) is kinda trashy. The police have busted the same house as a meth lab several times. There are a lot of families with way too many kids that run wild in the road and on other people's property. I had to put up a 6 ft wood fence to keep them out, they kept coming over and stealing things.

 

[Farmfresh]

I live smack dab in the middle of town in a big city.

It is an older neighborhood with some very nice big Victorian homes as well as smaller homes like mine, which is a 1928 bungalow. In some ways I am lucky as it is a pretty place to live. We have got lots of gardeners in my neighborhood. Some of them are landscapers ... like the guy who owns the 4 plex across the street.(Taken from my yard.)

The neighbors on the corner are into flower gardening. Although they do have a black raspberry patch in their back yard.

The corner house looks like this in the summer.

The next house down

You can see the peak of MY roof - it is the last one in the photo. And this is the sidewalk in front of their houses. Gorgeous hollyhocks.

Around on the other side of the block there is another urban homesteader. She gardens for food. At least I am not the only kook on the block.

This corn was sheltering new bush cherry plants.

 

[Big Daddy]

The house across the street is owned by some people that live in Ca. They come here for 2 weeks around July 4th. They plan to retire here in a few years. The people down the hill from them are a recently retired couple. The people before them got foreclosed on and a contractor totally remodeled it and sold it in less than 2 weeks. The people next door to us are a young couple with an above ground swimming pool. She likes to sun bathe in the nude. Of course I never look. Down the road from them is a woman with one boy around 10th grade

The rest of our area is doing ok. 1 or 2 sale signs but the houses are occupied. Housing is down about 9% according to a Realtor I was talking to that sells in this area.

 

[2dream]

Laughing out loud as I read about your sketchy neighbors.

I am the sketchy neighbor in this neighborhood. My porch always looks like a bomb exploded on it.

To my right is a house that contains "The neighbors I hate". Moved in about a year ago.

Directly across is a great neighbor (mobile home, old and falling apart). He just went to work a few months ago after almost 2 years of no work. She works a couple of nights a week. She is a nurse but has health problems. Most of her problems are she is extremely over weight and a prescription drug addict.

Next to them is a nice couple. He is retired and she has never worked. He and DH trade out favors. DH helped him put a roof on his new shed and he is welding up my new rabbit cage.

Across from them and directly to my left is a young couple with 2 small girls. Both work and I adore their girls.

Behind them and also to my left but behind me kind of is the first house comeing off of the highway. More great neighbors and also people I consider good friends. He is in Iraq right now. I visit with her at least 2 times a week. We help her with her garden and yard work while he is gone.

On the only other dead end street in this neighborhood (behind the neighbors across from me) are 6 families. I know who most of them are but not much about them.

 

[hwillm1977]

2dream: We'd also count as one of of 'sketchy' neighbours on this part of the street

We're remodelling an 1883 house (shack), half of which has no siding and is covered with insulation sheets... our porch constantly has the remnants of the most recent reno project on it... along with some car parts right now...

Someday we'll get this house to the point that it looks fabulous, but that could take a while at the rate we are accomplishing (and affording) things.

We moved here from a trailer park, so our little shack is one step up the property ladder from the 40 year old trailer we did live in

Farmfresh: I love your street... it's beautiful.

 

[2dream]

hwillm - being the sketchy neighbor can be fun. At least it amuses me.

 

[Big Daddy]

Guy next door gave me a 100' by 10' roll of weed block fabric. He does sells for an asphalt laying company. We also traded him 7 leghorns for 4 butchered meaties. He had them in a small enclosure with 10 RIR's. All the chickens were so stressed that nobody was laying eggs and the RIR's were pulling all the feathers off the leghorns. We put them in with our chickens and the give us eggs every day. He's a good guy. The house went through 3 sets of renters before they moved in and he is really fixing it up.

 

[dragonlaurel]

I live smack dab in the middle of town in a big city.

It is an older neighborhood with some very nice big Victorian homes as well as smaller homes like mine, which is a 1928 bungalow. In some ways I am lucky as it is a pretty place to live. We have got lots of gardeners in my neighborhood. Some of them are landscapers ... like the guy who owns the 4 plex across the street.(Taken from my yard.)
http://www.ubuilderplans.com/img/personal/Autumn Bushes400.JPG
http://www.ubuilderplans.com/img/personal/Autumn on South Main400.JPG

The neighbors on the corner are into flower gardening. Although they do have a black raspberry patch in their back yard.

The corner house looks like this in the summer.
http://www.ubuilderplans.com/img/personal/victorian gray 1b.JPG
The next house down
http://www.ubuilderplans.com/img/personal/victorian flowers 1ab.JPG

You can see the peak of MY roof - it is the last one in the photo. And this is the sidewalk in front of their houses. Gorgeous hollyhocks.

http://www.ubuilderplans.com/img/personal/Hollyhocks 1.400.JPG

Around on the other side of the block there is another urban homesteader. She gardens for food. At least I am not the only kook on the block.

http://www.ubuilderplans.com/img/personal/urban corna.JPG This corn was sheltering new bush cherry plants.
http://www.ubuilderplans.com/img/personal/urban farmers 400.JPG

Very nice