What does your street look like?

[Beekissed]

I guess I would be the sketchy neighbor in my area, although none of us are positioned close together.

There is an unfriendly farmer dude way across the way, up on a hill. Unfortunately, his barns are right across the road and I get the lovely benefit of hearing his weaning process.

Down the way a good bit is a nice old farmhouse that is a rental, don't know those folks but they have a few bear dogs.

On the rt. side, around the bend, is a quiet little Methodist church tucked back in a pretty little grove.

That's it, really. I have some nosey old neighbors who live over the hill and own the field next to me.

I'm the sketchy one because I am an "outsider" and I do weird things....like raised bed gardens, raise sheep that look like goats, free range my chickens, having a milk cow, and am constantly improving a rental house~to these locals that is a highly suspicious thing. They are constantly asking me if I bought the place.

I really am fortunate that I cannot really SEE any of my neighbors, nor they me unless they drive up the road past my house. I have fields on all sides and mountains past those fields.

I like the way my street looks!

 

[FarmerChick]

dead end road just paved 2 years ago...finally.

both houses at the entrance are owned by an older couple (nice people) and the other old lady passed about 8 mos. ago and her son has left the house vacant but takes care of it. Old homes.

Then a doublewide with young family on one side and another small brick house on one side with another young family.

then way down the road to me....

then after my farm is the man's home I bought the land. He is at the end. He passed about 9 yrs ago, the wife passed about 5 years ago and the son lives there. Next to them relatives put in a singlewide due to hard times and moved on their property.

all good people and nope, I don't know their private lives or incomes or anything like that..LOL


My other farm. Dead end road....14 acres on one side with 2 rental homes MIL owns and our cattle barn and pasture. One the other side is my 30 acres with pond we are building, hay fields and trees where Tony hunts some, where I plan to build my retirement home eventually, some day, whenever..LOL... At the end is Jerry...true southerner and KKK member. No one comes around that land..HAHA..all scared of Jerry.

that's it for me.

 

[me&thegals]

My road often has corn and cow poo sprinkled on it, so on the few days I get out roller blading, I have to watch my step.

As for the neighbors, we have a lot of aging folks. The woman next door just lost her husband. Across the street has siblings living together, parents gone, massive amount of infighting over the farm and land. The 2 nextdoor on the other side are BIL&SIL and MIL&FIL, everyone working. Across the road and down a bit is our neighbor who is hurting somewhat. He is a landscaper, and business is down severely. He's also in a low spot, land wise, so he had a LOT of flooding damage. Next down from there has a working woman, man on disability due to tree stand accident and half-body cast. Everyone else, I'm not sure about. Out here in the boondocks, there are no sidewalks or places to stop and chit chat with the neighbors

 

[FarmerChick]

massive amts of fighting over land.

yup we have that here. amazing how land and money can break a family....so sad. We have 120 acres (some worth millions because of the location) and we sure aren't fighting...UGH

so sad truly that situation. My friend Barb with the dairy farm....her hubbys family hate each other. there is tons of quality land and the way it was divided up (cause Grandpa must have been senile at that point..LOL) with some getting landlocked with no road frontage etc. put that family into a war of the land big time. One won't sell road frontage to the other and blah, blah, blah and one got a dime more than the other, etc.



A sidwalk, what is that..LOL...NC sure doesn't know what a sidewalk is!!
Up North we had them everywhere and it was nice to know you could get somewhere actually on a sidwalk..haha

 

[Big Daddy]

Pavement, sidewalks? what are those? What use would I have for a clean car and less dirt all through the house?

 

[ScottSD]

We live on about 16 acres off of a paved road. My drive way is about 500 feet long. We purchased the land about 14 years ago and built on the land 5 years after that.

I have been haying about 10 acres of the land for a few years until last fall when we decide to rent it out as I spent much of the summer weekends taking my teenage boys around the midwest playing basketball.

I put a lot of miles on this year!

Our "street" is a paved highway with a fair amount of houses along it and traffic. Yet, with the long driveway we are fairly isolated from the neighbors.

Also, the back of my property borders a public hunting/wild game production area. There are plenty of pheasants, deer, and other wildlife around.

 

[BeccaOH]

I live on a paved county road. The closest house to me is a rental mobile home my mom owns. Can't seem to find a renter. Maybe if it were HUD approved, but it is on an awesome spring for water source. :/

Next closest house is empty most of the time as owners live full time in the city as does the owner of the property on 2 sides of me (no house there).

We have a widowed retired teacher/farmer who helps me a lot. His sister and disabled daughter are just up the road from him. Beside them is a newer 2 income home and then a new home of a couple retirees who make some extra income raising herbs.

A homeschooling family with 1.5 incomes are trying some SS living. And above them are a 2 income family doing hobby farm with horses and goats. Beyond that there is a house for sale--retired widower wants to downsize.

On other end of road is a young couple with baby in a mobile home. Not sure about their jobs and such. They do use a woodburner all the time. Beyond that is a retired couple then the couple that own a local business based on the lake that seem to be doing okay. And then his brother's place that is only lived in during the summer as they spend winters in Florida (retired military). He has an airplane hangar for a couple small planes he manages to fly up out of our valley.

That's really all I know. Economy hasn't really seemed to make an obvious dent on my road yet I guess.

 

[big brown horse]

I guess I would be the sketchy neighbor in my area, although none of us are positioned close together.

 

[me&thegals]

massive amts of fighting over land.

yup we have that here. amazing how land and money can break a family....so sad. We have 120 acres (some worth millions because of the location) and we sure aren't fighting...UGH

so sad truly that situation. My friend Barb with the dairy farm....her hubbys family hate each other. there is tons of quality land and the way it was divided up (cause Grandpa must have been senile at that point..LOL) with some getting landlocked with no road frontage etc. put that family into a war of the land big time. One won't sell road frontage to the other and blah, blah, blah and one got a dime more than the other, etc.

Yeah, it is sad. About half of the siblings have been exiled from the family by the other half. Then they sue, and the siblings still on the farm have to sell of a chunk of land to pay them off. Right now they're asking $10,000/acre for wooded, nonbuildable, nonfarmable land.

 

[me&thegals]

Also, the back of my property borders a public hunting/wild game production area. There are plenty of pheasants, deer, and other wildlife around.

Oooh--that sounds awesome! Or is it more of a liability to have hunters around your property?