Do You Like or Hate the Neighborhood or Area You're Living In?

I'm not sure what you would define as Neighborhood.
I now live only about a mile and a half from the house where I grew up.
This is really all I've known. I'm still here so I guess I must like it! ;)
 

Topcat, How nice your living where you grew up. I never had that opportunity as we were always on the move. Dad who lives like that and my SIL and BIL who do too. My father always said I like it here so why would I ever leave. I think that is a great.
 
Falcon said:
No complaints. I consider myself lucky to be living here; within a couple of minutes of swimming in the Pacific Ocean.
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The few times I went into the Pacific in the San Diego area it was cold. It was warm at Waikiki Beach, but that is not California. I have a map showing water temperatures in the Puget Sound area and I would not even go wading there. I will stick to the Florida Gulf coast, thank you.
 

I love our neighbourhood and my DH and I plan on living in our small house in retirement. We moved to this smaller city with a gorgeous lake in 1992 - population has doubled since then. We first moved to a condo with lakefront views but DH did not like it and he felt he would be bored in retirement so we sold and bought a bungalow with no lake views - that was 18 years ago and so glad we did. It was worth my commuting 3 hours a day until my retirement last year. A few years ago a medical building opened up just down the street from us and my doctor moved her practice there. We are only about a 10 minute drive to enjoy long walks by the lake.
 
Suzanne said:
I love our neighbourhood and my DH and I plan on living in our small house in retirement. We moved to this smaller city with a gorgeous lake in 1992 - population has doubled since then. We first moved to a condo with lakefront views but DH did not like it and he felt he would be bored in retirement so we sold and bought a bungalow with no lake views - that was 18 years ago and so glad we did. It was worth my commuting 3 hours a day until my retirement last year. A few years ago a medical building opened up just down the street from us and my doctor moved her practice there. We are only about a 10 minute drive to enjoy long walks by the lake.
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Sounds perfect Suzanne! :sunglass:
 
Iodine said:
I like where I live in the foothills (about 1600 ft elevation) close to 2 national parks. We have been here about 25 years and are starting to think about moving into a nearby city of 100,000. I like the country and I like the city. Wish we could afford both.
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That's going to be a hard decision for you someday but that's in the future...no hurry. The place you are now is so beautiful and so peaceful. But you would be nearby so a day trip with your family, of fishing and a picnic, in the parks there once in awhile would be a fun compromise. The city life has it's positives too.
 
hearlady said:
I am so torn on this. We've been in this quiet neighborhood, small town for 26 years. I really don't want to sound like a snob but my problem is it's an older neighborhood, no covenants and it's become somewhat rundown. People don't take care of their houses and yards. Most do but right next door is an eyesore.
We like our house. It's a good retirement size and one floor, 1/2 acre yard. If we moved it would be to have more privacy, maybe foothills and scenery.
If we stay we would make house and yard more senior friendly.
Any advice from anyone who went through the stay or move decision?
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UPDATE: There is a Santa Claus. The neighbors next door that I spoke of want to refinance there house. In order to do that they must get new siding, soffit, etc. In order to do that they have to clean out the junk around their carport.
We have pretty much decided to stay so this is wonderful! They are nice people and good neighbors otherwise so thank you to the refinance God.
Another house on the other side of the neighborhood just surprisingly did the same thing so maybe for the same reason. Anyway, this is great news.
 
I live in a fairly urban area but within 15 minutes of open country in the foothills of a mountain range. I deliberately chose this neighborhood for its convenience. I have been within an easy walk of my PCP but changing HMOs in January so I'll be about 5 minutes away by car. Easy access to grocery shopping, post office, bus line for those rare occasions I need to go downtown, pretty much everything I need is right here.

My neighbor complains long and loud that a Mexican family moved in across the street and are always outside on their front porch. I went over and met them because I figure they're a better burglary deterrent than any home security system I could buy.
 
Even though our city has become crime laden, I like where we live because it's sort of a stand alone neighborhood. We are surrounded by government buildings including the courthouse, a senior building, a school and factories. Our complex takes up the entire block on all four sides. Crime around here is practically non existent. I love that even though I'm in an urban city, I can look out at our courtyard and see trees (including a cherry blossom), flowers and green plants. We have a walk score of 98% here due to an easy walk to restaurants (a couple of which have entertainment), several fast food places, financial institutions, an indoor mall, movie theater and retail establishments including dollar stores. Also nearby are the post office, Social security and tax offices, the train station and several buses which take us or connect us to just about anyplace we want to go, including the airport and our timeshare resort should my husband not care to drive.
 
Wouldn’t say we hate it, but do dislike it. Northeastern Florida and Florida, in general, has turned out to be “not for us”. We just don’t make good Floridians or “Southerners”. Been here for 9 years.

Making plans on going back to Colorado, but the north central part this time. Lived 5 1/2 years some 28 miles south of Denver. We really miss RMNP elk, rodeo action and freshwater boating/fishing.

Looking at moving to a much smaller population, with much less traffic and crime than here.

We love Western/cowboy stuff and that sure isn’t here!

Somehow we must have known that we’d return, we kept our winter parkas😊.

Snow and ice, yes, but that the weather that’s there in the winter.

We’ll both be retired, so won’t have to go out in that much.
 
ClassicRockr said:
Wouldn’t say we hate it, but do dislike it. Northeastern Florida and Florida, in general, has turned out to be “not for us”. Making plans on going back to Colorado, but the north central part this time.
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Good for you! I grew up in the Denver area, and IMO, the Front Range is one of the nicest places in the country. My career took us away from Colorado, but we still look forward to visiting there yearly, and love a nice drive through the mountains. I like an area with a mixture of climates....would not want to live in an area that is warm and humid all the time. Besides, when it snows on Monday, the sun comes out on Tuesday, and by Wednesday, most of it is gone. If you like the North/Central part of the state, check out Loveland, CO.
 
I like my neighborhood. Most of the people are quite nice, and help each other out when needed. I wish I still had the neighbors I had when I first moved here, though, 25 years ago. It was a great bunch, welcomed me to the neighborhood. It was not unusual for someone to pop over and say we are having an instant picnic in 3 hours. What can you bring?
 
Don M. said:
Good for you! I grew up in the Denver area, and IMO, the Front Range is one of the nicest places in the country. My career took us away from Colorado, but we still look forward to visiting there yearly, and love a nice drive through the mountains. I like an area with a mixture of climates....would not want to live in an area that is warm and humid all the time. Besides, when it snows on Monday, the sun comes out on Tuesday, and by Wednesday, most of it is gone. If you like the North/Central part of the state, check out Loveland, CO.
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WOW, Loveland is a city we have been checking out. It's much smaller than here. Planning a trip there next summer to check it out. We are close to being 100% sure we want to move there, but a visit will help us take the "rose-colored glasses" off and see the real thing. Thing is, after living here for 9 plus years, it's going to take some "getting us to" as far as the winter months go. We will be some 10 years older since we left (sold our house) in Parker, Colorado.

Another thing, we just can't seem to find anywhere else to go that has what we liked/love/miss in Colorado and parts of Wyoming.
 
We built this house in 1994 and raised 5 kids here, so now just the two of us rattling around. I wouldn't mind downsizing but we like the neighborhood and our neighbors. Also we have been mortgage-free for 10 years so that's a good thing.
 
I love this place. Our house sits in the middle of 25 acres with a 6 acre lake right behind the house. Our nearest neighbor is 1/8 of a mile away. Located just a half mile outside the city limits of a town of almost 10,000 wonderful people We bought this place when I retired over 10 years ago.
 
I like where I live but miss living in town and within walking distance to stores, restaurants and the beauty shop. I live about 10 miles outside the city in a nice neighborhood with a community pool and other recreational facilities, plus I can ride my bicycle safely and that is nice.
 
I've been observing, recently, the local options as I get older and perhaps less mobile. I had noticed some shoppers at the supermarket I can easily walk to, who were in electric wheelchairs. I wondered about the range of those chairs. About a block away is a quiet retirement apartment place. About half a mile away is another. About 3/4 of a mile is yet another. I have noticed, over time, that the wheelchairs I had been seeing had travelled from each of those. This means to be that I am in a good location even if I lose some mobility in later years.

Besides, I like it here.
 
Hoot N Annie said:
In the past few months I've relocated from the Big Island of Hawaii to a suburb of Phoenix, and I love it. Weather was nicer in Hawaii, but at my age, having access to modern conveniences trumps weather. I live a gated 55+ community, so I plan on being here for a while, health permitting.

p.s. It's only supposed to get to 106 today. Fall is in the air!!
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I just realized where you live. My long term goal is to move to Az, my daughter lives in Scottsdale. How do you like the community you live in?
 
Have wanted to move forever, but husband refused. With his terminal illness, I will have the opportunity in the future. Our neighborhood has changed a lot, I mean a lot. Builders are buying up our homes left and right due to the stellar location and building multiple homes on the land and our street has become like a freeway, throw in the huge homeless population that populates the Seattle area.....not what it used to be around here.
 
debbie in seattle said:
Have wanted to move forever, but husband refused. With his terminal illness, I will have the opportunity in the future. Our neighborhood has changed a lot, I mean a lot. Builders are buying up our homes left and right due to the stellar location and building multiple homes on the land and our street has become like a freeway, throw in the huge homeless population that populates the Seattle area.....not what it used to be around here.
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Debbie, where are you thinking of going? Just curious as my mom's family lives up there so we visit a lot. My fav aunt (97 this year!) lives up on Beacon Hill and I have cousins all over the Seattle area.

So funny how tons of articles in our local paper talk about Seattle being the Millennial techies' preferred destination. I keep thinking, "Do they understand how bad Seattle traffic really is?!?" LOL!
 

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