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It is ridiculous because anyone over the age of adolescence with at least an average intellect knows the answer to this, and can surmise the many reasons for it.
Yes we just bought into a neighborhood and we already see in 10 yrs we will be done with it because of all the riff raff around the corner that we did not see . One neighbor on one side of us is a renter and the other owns her home but still not that friendly at all and I'm really not okay with that but I'm stuck here now so that's that until we see where we are at in ten years . I think I will be ready for a condo at that point , small yard . We have a 1/4 acre yard now which helped sell this house at that point . but now we are thinking probably will not want to be taking care of this place in our 60s . bottom line yep we will have the house in tip top shape when we do sell and be done with it .Good luck to you whoever mentioned selling their house.
IN GENERAL if I bought a home in a lower middle class neighborhood would I expect neighbors to be worse than a middle class or upper middle class area? I can buy a nicer home in these areas for the money but wonder if there would be more crime, noise, etc.
Again I am talking about a lower middle class neighborhood, not a ghetto.
I fell for the "first house". "working class neighborhood" thing for my first house in PA. I did the usual stuff, parked on the street and observed a few times, but not long enough. Didn't check municipal laws either, about parking. I last 11 months and we had it back on the market. It was horrible. Like a different episode of COPS going on outside of every window. "Working class neighborhoods" are going to give you more negative quality of life issues. Thats just the way it is. Im sure 10 people will say they are awesome, but I still stand by what I said.
It is ridiculous because anyone over the age of adolescence with at least an average intellect knows the answer to this, and can surmise the many reasons for it.
Yes. Our first home here was in a lower class/working class neighborhood, because that's what we could afford. It was actually okay when we first moved in, in 2005, but by the end of 2006, it was going downhill fast. The property values plummeted (we lost 2/3 of our home's equity) and the lawns grew higher and were getting filled with junk cars. There was a drug bust on our street at 4:00 one morning, car break-ins, shady people hanging around.
We now live in a quiet middle-class neighborhood. We have one set of shady neighbors (young 20-somethings who have a lot of coming and going and moving-in and moving-out happening), but the rest are all nice, either quiet families or older retired people. I feel quite safe walking outdoors at night; I'm more afraid of running into a coyote than I am of running into an unfriendly neighbor. It's an underdeveloped area, and I like it that way. Trees make the best neighbors anyway.
I would try to get a home in the best neighborhood you can. I think it is best to have the cheapest house in the neighborhood - we live in one where most of our neighbors are richer than us - its good that way
If there are renters in said neighborhood YES! That makes all the difference, IMHO.
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