There comes a time in the life of a Yuppie where they're supposed to move. It's sometime before their 1st kid starts Kindergarten. You have been working for over 10 years, make more than your age, and it's time to move from that "starter" home in the city (or borderline not fabulous town) out to the burbs or country.
In my area it's Bath, Medina, Revere, Fairlawn and Stow. You sell your 3 bedroom place and choose a "neighborhood" with good schools where the kids can play and you can "stop worrying." I hear this story over and over and over. It's SO boring.
My street is brick and tree lined and there are 8 neighbor kids that come play together, often ball in the street. Our houses are all old, so we all sit on each other's porches and watch the kids -- keep the little ones safe, yell "CAR!" and mediate big kid disputes.
The best part about my street is the demographics. There are 13 houses - 3 are rentals and the rest are owner occupied. We have, in order, down and up street:
Evangelical Christian couple (Their house/yard is 2nd nicest)
College kid house
Single Mom College Professor w/ 2 kids and 4 outdoor cats
Lesbian Elementary School Teacher
Single Grandma w/ 4 dogs
Corporate Rich Couple w/ disabled daughter
3 apartment rental with 1) quiet hippe college girls 2) single divorced guy 3) hairdresser and friendly Christian ex-con boyfriend (former drug dealer (not sex offender, I checked).
Business Owners (us)
Grumpy 80-yr-old street veteran couple
Appliance repair guy and wife
Lawyer in DA's office
Web developer, hippe wife, 2 kids, 19 indoor pets
Gay elementary art teacher
Gay corporate executive (His house/yard is the nicest)
Anyway, how can you beat this? I can walk to Chipotle and the coffee shop and drug store. I am 5 minutes from the MetroParks. Can someone tell me why people want to live in a new development going up on Rt. 3 in Medina? Is it fear? Schools? New houses? If you live in a place like this, tell me why you chose it.
1 Comments:
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