What is your living arrangement?

Robusta

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upstate New York
Just curious how we all live. Urban,suburban,rural or whatever.

My wife and I own 11 acres out of a six hundred acre farm,created by my family in 1823. My father lives on another cut out while my brother holds title and farms the remainder.

We live in a ranch style house in the country,gravel road. 4 miles to the nearest small town, and 23 to the nearest Wal Mart, and about 50 to a mall.
 

I live in a large one bedroom apartment in a suburb of Cleveland that still has reasonable rent prices. Lake Erie is in my backyard. We have pretty good policing and even too good some might say. I live on the first floor, there is laundry in the basement. The building is always quiet for the most part. On occasion we see deer, and there are a lot of birds and squirrels to be seen. Once in awhile you will hear light music playing but nothing disturbing. The managers are very helpful and very nice.
 
I live on a peninsula on the coast of southern California in a hillside house I watched being built.

It has an eastern panoramic (180Âş) view of the San Gabriel mountains and the vast Pacific ocean including Catalina isle.


(I'd rather watch the sun rise than set. However both are beautiful nonetheless.)
 

The hubby and I live in a rural area of New Jersey about 20 miles from the Pennsylvania border. We have a ranch style home on an acre of property. When we first had our home built, about40 years ago, we were surrounded by cornfields. Now it has been built up a bit, but all the homes have an acre or more of property. We have a mountain,fields, and a pond that can be seen from our living room window and the occasional bear and other wildlife will come by for a visit once in awhile so all is not lost. The nearest town,which is quite small, is about 6 miles away. To go to larger stores at a mall,which we rarely do, is about 25 to 30 miles away.
 
Just curious how we all live. Urban,suburban,rural or whatever.

My wife and I own 11 acres out of a six hundred acre farm,created by my family in 1823. My father lives on another cut out while my brother holds title and farms the remainder.

We live in a ranch style house in the country,gravel road. 4 miles to the nearest small town, and 23 to the nearest Wal Mart, and about 50 to a mall.

It sounds like you and I are living in similar environments....the biggest differences being, we have 40 acres of dense forest, and the Walmart is about 12 miles away. Life is good.
 
Robusta, would love to live on your farm. But, where I do live is in the 'burbs. We live in a double wide manufactured home, which I bought about 25 years ago, before I met my husband. I was of a mind that by this time in life, I would be considering a move to an apartment, BUT Rick does not want to leave here. Plus, our monthly expenses are actually less than an apartment. Monthly lot rent includes water and trash pick up, and is less than a decent 2 bedroom apartment in a senior community. So here we stay.
 
I have a two bedroom apartment in a 1940's apartment complex that was built to welcome the young men home from WWII. It is a mixture of people, students, retirees and working folks. Some of my neighbors are on the way up, some are on the way down and some are just hangin' on, pretty much a cross section of the city. The complex is located in a crack between a very wealthy section of the city and a rough area of the city. All necessary shops and services are withing walking distance or within a five mile drive from my apartment. I'm gradually shedding my possessions and preparing to move into a smaller ground floor apartment, not sure where at this point. I'm also eyeing one of those cruise ship style all inclusive senior complexes that provide meals, transportation, cleaning, etc..., I'm still a little too nimble and frugal for that though, LOL!
 
I have a two bedroom apartment in a 1940's apartment complex that was built to welcome the young men home from WWII. It is a mixture of people, students, retirees and working folks. Some of my neighbors are on the way up, some are on the way down and some are just hangin' on, pretty much a cross section of the city. The complex is located in a crack between a very wealthy section of the city and a rough area of the city. All necessary shops and services are withing walking distance or within a five mile drive from my apartment. I'm gradually shedding my possessions and preparing to move into a smaller ground floor apartment, not sure where at this point. I'm also eyeing one of those cruise ship style all inclusive senior complexes that provide meals, transportation, cleaning, etc..., I'm still a little too nimble and frugal for that though, LOL!
The complex you live at sounds similar to mine in who lives there and about shops and services. I will be seeing about a senior complex one of these days or years, too. Best of luck with it.
 
I've been a city girl all my life and I love it. Now that Hubby and I are old my daughter who lives in the "Burbs" wants us to either live with her and her family or at least move into her neighborhood. I would love to be closer to her so she wouldn't worry about us as much as she does now, but it's hard for me to imagine leaving the home we've been living in for over 45yrs. She sends be pictures of homes in her area everyday. Her husband said he would love to buy a house with an attached in-law suite. We'll see .
 
Apartment in a large town. Looking for a nice mobile in adult park to buy.

I'd love to live in the country. Being on my own it's not feasible.
 
I live in the back unit of a duplex that is family owned. Straight across the 2 drives is where my dad lives. I help care for my dad and also do the maintenance(that I can do) yard work and snow removal( the 2 drives are 18'x 90')<get harder every year! :) The complete properties are 2 duplexes, here in Arvada Colorado, which is part of the Denver Metro.
 
We live in a condo apartment in a 55+ community of 9000 residents in a suburban area a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico. We lived in the area when they were being built 40+ years ago. We love it, no exterior maintenance, no stairs to our ground floor unit, 2 recreation centers with pools.
 
I live in a small village (200 or so people) in N.E.Scotland. I have a traditional house built from locally quarried stone around 1830 . Like many villages, it was originally laid out in equal sized plots of 1/5 acre to allow the residents enough room to grow their own vegetables. Until recently, Scotland still had a feudal land system until 2000 when it was abolished, but Scots law still differs from English law when it comes to property ownership, with most private properties being owned outright and heritable.
 
We live in a semi-rural village in North Wales. We downsized to modern detached house, after living in a 1610 farmhouse, with a few acres of land in a rural area of Wales.
 
Upstate NY ?? Anywhere near Blodgett Mills NY ???

Rural....4.33 acres...10 miles to small town, 15 to 20 miles bigger town with 2 Wally Worlds...
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I live alone in a two bed two bath apartment that is for age 55 and over on the extreme north end of a city with half million population. All necessary facilities for health and fun are in close proximity to where I live. I am 6 blocks from the 3,400 sq ft home that I owned for 40 years.
 
Just curious how we all live. Urban,suburban,rural or whatever.

My wife and I own 11 acres out of a six hundred acre farm,created by my family in 1823. My father lives on another cut out while my brother holds title and farms the remainder.

We live in a ranch style house in the country,gravel road. 4 miles to the nearest small town, and 23 to the nearest Wal Mart, and about 50 to a mall.
In my opinion, you are close to paradise! I lived in Balmorhea, TX for almost a decade and The nearest Walmart super center and movie theatre were 1 1/2 hours away. We had to go to the post office for our mail (I had PO box 20). The reason I loved it was that if you were heading to Walmart to food shop, you stopped by your friends houses and picked up their big coolers and lists, they did the same for you. We waved to everyone we passed on the highway, we depended on our neighbors. I drove almost an hour to my job and sometimes never passed another car, but knew that someone would always stop if I was broke down. Sketchy cell reception, but that was ok. over-connectivity has ruined so many potentially great friendships. Our joke was that if you farted, somebody would call and ask what that new marinade is that you're using on the brisket.... That town is how my user name came to be, my house was haunted by very cordial, peaceful ghosts.....
 
Down sized from a 5 bedroom 3 bath bi-level on 12 acres home that was paid for. That was sold at the height of when property and homes was at it's peak. We moved from the cold miserable north east to the warm & sunny south west to a 3 bedroom 2 bath in the heart of the city. We can walk to a major mall, 4 major food stores, & our dentist. We chose a ranch style for simplicty of maintenance, no climbing stairs and the convenience of having lifes needs in our senior years close by.
 
Live in a 2 bedroom, 1 bath condo in an inner ring suburb of the Twin Cities. Stores, doctors, entertainment, library and main highways are all 10 minutes away. I grew up in a big city and would miss it if I lived in the country.

There are 9 other 4-family condo buildings in my complex. We have owners and renters, old and young people and dark and light skinned residents. There is 1 acre of wooded land on each side of the complex which attracts wildlife. Walking paths are available near the complex. My cat and I have lived here for 10 years. I will stay here as long as I can easily walk up and down the 14 steps to my 2nd floor residence.
 
Well, I am happy where I am at. Have to be, we have a deed restriction that the property needs to be either willed to a direct descendant or sold at market value back to the LLC.
This is how it should be though. It has worked well for 180 years of continuous family ownership. There is a real comfortable feeling like being in the arms of your mother. There are 5 generations alive now and triple that in the cemetery.
 


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