dubone, on Nov 18 2004, 09:52 AM, said:
I think the garage and yard demands are true for families with kids, but there is nothing more depressing than living alone in a huge house with garages, and a yard on a culdesac in the middle of nowhere if you don't have a family.
With divorcees, empty-nest boomers, dinks and oinks numbers growing fast everywhere, downtowns and close-in neighborhoods are resurging.
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It is still quite possible to live close in, such as in NoDa, PlazaMidwood, etc., and have a yard and a garage. However, everyone these days wants humungous amounts of space in their house. I lived in one of these in Steele Creek and it was so much work to clean, so expensive to heat and to furnish (and admittedly lacked personality), that I sold it and moved uptown.
For reasons as to why such houses aren't all they're cracked up to be, read the "Not so big house" website:
http://www.notsobighouse.com/press.asp I predict a backlash sooner or later against the great big surburbanite houses, especially with worsening traffic, increasing oil and gasoline costs and other factors pointed out on that website.
Of course, then again, I'm often wrong.
