Darren Garrison wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:57:57 GMT, "Vox Humana" wrote:


"Darren Garrison" wrote in message
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:07:27 GMT, "Vox Humana"

wrote:

becomes reactionary because a complaint was lodged. I figure that most
people move about every two or three years, so unless something is really

Most people move every two or three years? Are you sure that you didn't

mean that most people move

about every twenty or thirty years?


Nope. Not where I live. I've been here going on 10 years and I can hardly
keep-up with the constant parade of people who move in and out of the
neighborhood. The development is about 15 years old, there are only 5
original owners on the street. Of the five, only two have remained


Interesting. In my (very rural) area, the people who live around me now are mostly the people who
lived in those same houses 30 or 40 years ago.

In my own jurisdiction, Montgomery County Maryland, the average length
of residence is indeed about 7 years.

My family's been in the same house since 1963.

On "my block", I think there are maybe three families who have been here
more than 20 years, that's out of maybe 30 houses.

The demographic for the county, in general, is more upscale than my
"affordable" neighborhood. Yet as income and educational levels increase
in this county, the likelihood of frequent moves apparently rises.

The neighborhood demographic is changing. We used to be the sort of
neighborhood peopled by the successful owners of small businesses in the
services industries -- plumbers, electricians, etc -- and midlevel
government workers. That demographic is largely unchanged, but the
national origins of that demographic is now almost exclusively in
centralamerica although there are a fair number of asians, increasingly
from China.

Many of the asians don't seem to be very interested in landscaping or
gardening, and frequently allow their yards to become rather overgrown.
I suspect that this may be due to unfamiliarity with which plants are to
be cultivated and encourange, and which should be weeded out or cut
back. Hedges appear to be a complete mystery to many of them.

The centralamerican approach to gardening is generally to pave the lawn
and park a fleet of work vehicles.

The bloodsucking yuppies, on the other hand, either do a fairly good job
of hiring gardeners who have some slight clue, or replace the previous
home with a "teardown", which is when you gut or remove the previous
structure and replace it with a McMansion, meaning they fill the
property line-to-line with a ridiculously overpriced "cookie cutter" home.

Considering that they apparently can't tolerate sunlight, I'm not too
surprised that they don't do a damn thing with their yards other than
design them to be easily and conveniently trimmed by the centralamerican
cadres of lawncutters, and fill the inside of their homes (presumably,
they don't invite me in and I'd be afraid to go) with overpriced trendy
imported trinkets showcasing their lifestyle of conspicuous consumption
on overextended credit.



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