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Probably means it's time to start thinking about selling. You'll probably come out ahead on the deal, and rich people make the worst neighbors anyway.

Loughla 7y ago
That's the thing, though. Out here, you don't really make choices as an individual. I mean, it's a weird balance. Lots of us live out here because we didn't want to be told what to do by a government (outside of the don't steal, don't murder sorts of laws). Some of my neighbors moved out here after living under an HOA and getting pissed off. But when it comes to something like selling the property to someone from outside, or moving and leaving a place empty, that is always discussed in the community. It's like a weird family made of distant cousins. You don't want to leave them with shitty neighbors, but you also don't want them bothering you. Country living is odd.
- throwanem 7y ago
  Oh, no doubt. I grew up that way and there's a good deal I still miss about it, for all that I appreciate city conveniences. But if you're getting new rich neighbors, one assumes you're not considering selling in a vacuum, either. And my experience has been that the loose communality you describe is far from immune to the influence of a lot of money. One of my own distant cousins sold a place to a developer a few years back, without consulting anyone, that'd been in the family for four generations. Even those relations most infuriated by the sale eventually had to concede that, for the just shy of a million the developer paid her, they'd have done the same.
stronglikedan 7y ago
I've lived next to all sorts of people, and I can tell you with certainty that wealth isn't a factor in being neighborly.
- throwanem 7y ago
  And I can tell you just as certainly, out of my own experience, that you're wrong about that. If you appreciate the place where you live for its own sake, the worst thing that can happen to it is an influx of people who appreciate it only for what they can turn it into, and who also have the financial power to do so. Whether or not they're nice people is maybe not entirely orthogonal to whether their behavior has a noxious effect, but it's certainly close.
stickfigure 7y ago
One of the benefits of acreage out in the country is that your neighbors are far enough away that you really don't have to care.
- Loughla 7y ago
  Literally the only reason I bought the property that I did. We sit on a hill, with woods between us and the two nearest neighbors. I want to buy the place across the road, just so I never have to worry about someone building over there. New neighbors built a new place down the road (half mile or so) and put up a security light and have lights under their eaves all the way around the house. For the life of me I can't figure out why you would move out to where it's dark, just to get rid of the dark.

Loughla 7y ago

That's the thing, though. Out here, you don't really make choices as an individual. I mean, it's a weird balance. Lots of us live out here because we didn't want to be told what to do by a government (outside of the don't steal, don't murder sorts of laws). Some of my neighbors moved out here after living under an HOA and getting pissed off. But when it comes to something like selling the property to someone from outside, or moving and leaving a place empty, that is always discussed in the community. It's like a weird family made of distant cousins. You don't want to leave them with shitty neighbors, but you also don't want them bothering you. Country living is odd.

throwanem 7y ago
Oh, no doubt. I grew up that way and there's a good deal I still miss about it, for all that I appreciate city conveniences. But if you're getting new rich neighbors, one assumes you're not considering selling in a vacuum, either. And my experience has been that the loose communality you describe is far from immune to the influence of a lot of money. One of my own distant cousins sold a place to a developer a few years back, without consulting anyone, that'd been in the family for four generations. Even those relations most infuriated by the sale eventually had to concede that, for the just shy of a million the developer paid her, they'd have done the same.

stronglikedan 7y ago

I've lived next to all sorts of people, and I can tell you with certainty that wealth isn't a factor in being neighborly.

throwanem 7y ago
And I can tell you just as certainly, out of my own experience, that you're wrong about that. If you appreciate the place where you live for its own sake, the worst thing that can happen to it is an influx of people who appreciate it only for what they can turn it into, and who also have the financial power to do so. Whether or not they're nice people is maybe not entirely orthogonal to whether their behavior has a noxious effect, but it's certainly close.

stickfigure 7y ago

One of the benefits of acreage out in the country is that your neighbors are far enough away that you really don't have to care.

Loughla 7y ago
Literally the only reason I bought the property that I did. We sit on a hill, with woods between us and the two nearest neighbors. I want to buy the place across the road, just so I never have to worry about someone building over there. New neighbors built a new place down the road (half mile or so) and put up a security light and have lights under their eaves all the way around the house. For the life of me I can't figure out why you would move out to where it's dark, just to get rid of the dark.