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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 wa
by 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 agoOh, 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.