[Jukesgrrl]

I've lived in five states and never had a walled yard until I came to the Southwest. But now having lived here for four years, I wouldn't buy a house in a desert area that doesn't have one. I've seen coyotes, bobcats, and big snakes in my suburban (not-rural) subdivision. My brother had javelinas in his. The critters travel the washes and a wash borders or goes straight through most of the subdivisions in my area. I still get plenty of rabbits and birds in my back yard (baby quail born in a plant pot on my patio this week!), but no big animals -- and I want to keep more than a glass patio door between them and me. Also, I like the esthetics of every fence in the neighborhood matching.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by MomMom

You got my curiousity piqued kimba...what do you mean "the shape of them"

Similar to this?




We are in the southwest so we should have more SW style architecture.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by Jukesgrrl

I've lived in five states and never had a walled yard until I came to the Southwest. But now having lived here for four years, I wouldn't buy a house in a desert area that doesn't have one. I've seen coyotes, bobcats, and big snakes in my suburban (not-rural) subdivision. My brother had javelinas in his. The critters travel the washes and a wash borders or goes straight through most of the subdivisions in my area. I still get plenty of rabbits and birds in my back yard (baby quail born in a plant pot on my patio this week!), but no big animals -- and I want to keep more than a glass patio door between them and me. Also, I like the esthetics of every fence in the neighborhood matching.

You must live in Arizona. We don't have javelinas here in Nevada. I think AZ probably has more of all desert critters than we do.

[jfkIII]

Originally Posted by MomMom

Tell Mom she don't have to like it

Living anywhere on the wrong coast, in my opinion, is like being in prison, or that other really bad place that begins with a H ....so would ya kindly let her know what I just said?

We do have another thread on this very same subject ruready1st, interesting reads there...

Hawaii????

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by olecapt

It is actually a southwestern thing. An outgrowth of the areas Spanish roots. Note that it is not present in early Las Vegas homes but comes in with the tract builders of the 60s and afterwards.

In the Spanish style the entire property is walled at the property line. Entry is by the garage and a large locked gate. You can't get any view of what the property is actually like until you get inside the walls.

Speaking of which...anyone who has been spent anytime in the Philippines and South America...(I've spent a lot of time in both)...

You have these walls around most properties...and they take broken glass bottles...and cement them jaggedly along the top...so absolutely no one in their right mind would ever dream of trying to climb over the wall into your property

[dynimagelv]

a big ugly Shar Pei works the same way

[MomMom]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

Hawaii????

Mon cherie, Hawaii is paradise...now you stop the jfk

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by MomMom

Mon cherie, Hawaii is paradise...now you stop the jfk

Until the trades stop...then it is south FL.

[Tiger Beer]

Originally Posted by olecapt

Note that over the last ten years the municipalities have banned flat block walls on the property line. Generally now a set back is required with landscaping. The planners discovered we were creating alleys of grand proportion all over town which were simply ugly.

Are those the roads that just have solid SHARED walls right up next to the sidewalk...going all the way down the road?

[olecapt]

Originally Posted by Tiger Beer

Are those the roads that just have solid SHARED walls right up next to the sidewalk...going all the way down the road?

The older ones do. The newer ones have a landscaped area between the wall and the sidewalk.

The wall may be shared in a tract or owned by the occupant in non tract situations. I own my wall for instance.