Need advice on exterior rennovations

[JSH]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Try standing in the middle of the street with the phone out in picture mode, or be really friendly. Works for me, but most neighborhoods don't add much more data

Flagging down cars? People in Alabama don't walk. We didn't even have sidewalks to the grocery store 1/4 mile away or the school and park a half mile away. The road to the school had ditches a few inches off the white line. Just an old county road that suddenly was in the middle of a town that sprung up around it with no infrastructure upgrades.

[Piotrsko]

Where did I say flag down cars? When I lived out in the boonies, I knew all my prospective neighbors 2 years before I had the house built.

I would be doing stuff like placing markers, and they'd come over.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Where did I say flag down cars? When I lived out in the boonies, I knew all my prospective neighbors 2 years before I had the house built.

I would be doing stuff like placing markers, and they'd come over.

Well you did say to try standing in the middle of the road.

I've personally found rural life is quite a bit different than life in a city. When I only had a few neighbors everyone know everyone.

In that subdivision with hundreds of people around I barely knew of the neighbors. Nobody walked anywhere, most people had a yard service mow their lawn, and if they were outside they were in their backyard on the other size of a (HOA mandatory) 6 foot high wooden fence.

I only really knew the retired couple - then widow - next door and the guy across the street that was always working on a house project like me. Two of my neighbors were NEVER in their front yard. They would drive up to their mailbox, get their mail, drive up the driveway into the garage, and shut the garage door the moment the rear bumper cleared it.

A bit better here in Oregon but the guy across the street from me also drives directly into his garage and shuts the door. He isn't outside of his house unless he is in a vehicle. The only time I've spoken to him was when I put out a futon for free and he came over and asked if I could help him carry it into his house.

[freebeard]

When I was in college in Corvallis, I had a neighbor with a foreign car (I forget) that would come home, wash the car, and then garage it.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

When I was in college in Corvallis, I had a neighbor with a foreign car (I forget) that would come home, wash the car, and then garage it.

Every day?

[freebeard]

Don't recall, multiple times a week. He moved out and my future ex-wife moved in.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by JSH

In general going door to door to talk to potential neighbors isn't really a thing in the USA. Plenty of people will think you are selling something and not even open the door.

Not really what I meant. Let's suppose I would move from Porto Alegre to Curitiba for instance, most likely I would get advice from people who I already talk to and know Curitiba better than I do, and have been more up-to-date with what's going on there such as crime rates (which are a serious matter of concern for anyone from Porto Alegre like me). Even someone who might live in another neighborhood may be of good advice while looking out for housing.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

Not really what I meant. Let's suppose I would move from Porto Alegre to Curitiba for instance, most likely I would get advice from people who I already talk to and know Curitiba better than I do, and have been more up-to-date with what's going on there such as crime rates (which are a serious matter of concern for anyone from Porto Alegre like me). Even someone who might live in another neighborhood may be of good advice while looking out for housing.

She did that with her co-workers and they said it was a good location.

Knowing what we did later we would have spent another $100K or so to live inside the beltway and drive opposite the flow of rush hour.

[freebeard]

If you commute by car (day shift), it's important to live Eastward from work, so the Sun is at your back both ways.

[Piotrsko]

I think it's more important to live counter traffic flow, IE: southbound on the 405 in the morning, north bound in the evening. In those instances, the sun is on your shoulders.

Should I have said standing in the middle of the street concious of traffic? Most neighborhoods don't support much street traffic congestion