good fences
Sun Apr 17 18:30 EDT 2016
Our (north) next-door neighbors moved away in November - presumably selling below value to get away before winter - and there's been sporadic renovations going on since then. This afternoon a high wooden fence went up between their back yard and ours. The other 2 sides of their back yard already had a fence. I like the fence; I feel like I have a lot more privacy in my own yard - not that they ever spent time in their yard. It's the north side of our yard, so we're not losing any light.
Putting up a fence is an insult to your neighbors. If you need to constrain pets, you have an excuse. If you're just flipping the house (bought to fix-up and re-sell, not to live there) you don't have to care about the neighbors' feelings. I'm sure this fence is to raise the resale value by blocking the view of our yard, but I like having it. And we don't even know who our new neighbors will be, so there's no point in taking offense.
There's only one window on the south side of their 2-story house. I always wonder about houses like that. When we were looking to move, there was a house we really liked but it had only one, little, basement window on the west side. This was a development with a series of mirror-flipped houses, so in most of the houses it wouldn't have been a great view. But this particular house was on the edge of the development, with woods to the west. Not having windows where there was a view of something other than the rest of the homeowner-association-limited-color-schemed development was just offensive on so many levels. But back to next door - it's important to me to have natural light in my living space.
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Our (north) next-door neighbors moved away in November - presumably selling below value to get away before winter - and there's been sporadic renovations going on since then. This afternoon a high wooden fence went up between their back yard and ours. The other 2 sides of their back yard already had a fence. I like the fence; I feel like I have a lot more privacy in my own yard - not that they ever spent time in their yard. It's the north side of our yard, so we're not losing any light.
Putting up a fence is an insult to your neighbors. If you need to constrain pets, you have an excuse. If you're just flipping the house (bought to fix-up and re-sell, not to live there) you don't have to care about the neighbors' feelings. I'm sure this fence is to raise the resale value by blocking the view of our yard, but I like having it. And we don't even know who our new neighbors will be, so there's no point in taking offense.
There's only one window on the south side of their 2-story house. I always wonder about houses like that. When we were looking to move, there was a house we really liked but it had only one, little, basement window on the west side. This was a development with a series of mirror-flipped houses, so in most of the houses it wouldn't have been a great view. But this particular house was on the edge of the development, with woods to the west. Not having windows where there was a view of something other than the rest of the homeowner-association-limited-color-schemed development was just offensive on so many levels. But back to next door - it's important to me to have natural light in my living space.
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/809635.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]