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Old 02-12-2012, 11:03 AM
 
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Hi,

I've been looking at residential real estate online for awhile now and I've noticed that few houses have fenced yards. I'm doing this by taking the listed address, putting it in Google maps and using the street view to tool around the area and see what it looks like, check proximity to stores, etc.

It seems as if most people do not water their grass and have no fences. One one block I was looking at only one person had green grass and it really stood out from everyone else. Is the lack of fencing typical in Texas? I'm from Oregon and it seems like EVERYONE has fences or hedges or something to define the boundaries.

It doesn't matter to be personally but I was just curious if I moved to Texas would I be looked at as strange to put up a fence?

Thanks,

cm
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Old 02-12-2012, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Kaufman County, Texas
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Where are you looking? In all of the towns where I have family or have lived, all of the yards except for a few were fenced.
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Old 02-12-2012, 12:04 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Some people like to have wide open yards or visit with their neighbors. Privacy fencing to some is just too closed off. Lots of homes in more rural areas will not have privacy fences. Closer in to the city, most neighborhoods will have it.
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Old 02-12-2012, 01:00 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Depends on where you live. In Austin almost everyone has 6' high wood privacy fences around their yards.
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Old 02-12-2012, 04:52 PM
 
Location: Sacramento Mtns of NM
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Depends on where you live. In Austin almost everyone has 6' high wood privacy fences around their yards.
Try El Paso! There fully 95 percent of residences have ROCK WALLS (some cinderbrick) surrounding at least the backyard, and some have low ones in front as well.

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Old 02-12-2012, 06:10 PM
 
Location: Denver
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Are you talking about fences around the front yard? Then yeah, that seems strange to me. It makes the whole neighborhood seem cut-off and isolated.

As far as the yards go, keep in mind that Google did much of Texas' Street View shots either in the middle of winter or during drought, when most people stop watering the yards.
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Old 02-12-2012, 09:17 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Hi,

I've been looking at residential real estate online for awhile now and I've noticed that few houses have fenced yards. I'm doing this by taking the listed address, putting it in Google maps and using the street view to tool around the area and see what it looks like, check proximity to stores, etc.

It seems as if most people do not water their grass and have no fences. One one block I was looking at only one person had green grass and it really stood out from everyone else. Is the lack of fencing typical in Texas? I'm from Oregon and it seems like EVERYONE has fences or hedges or something to define the boundaries.

It doesn't matter to be personally but I was just curious if I moved to Texas would I be looked at as strange to put up a fence?

Thanks,

cm
You do realize that Texas is just MAYBE coming out of one of the worst droughts on record, right? That one green lawn may be the person who's so self-entitled that they think that they don't have to conserve water just because everyone else does so that we'll all have drinking water.

As for fences, most new subdivisions, and some older ones, around here have privacy fenced back yards, not front yards. Other older ones will have fences that you can talk with the neighbors over, and more upscale neighborhoods with some room between the houses might not have privacy fences, or only have them around the pool area.
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Old 02-12-2012, 11:16 PM
 
Location: The Magnolia City
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Not sure what town you were looking at, cmabc123, but backyard fences/gates are the norm in Texas. This isn't Georgia, where fences are virtually nonexistent.
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Old 02-13-2012, 08:06 AM
 
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OP--not enough specific info and who knows if you were looking at larger lots/acres vs city neighborhoods or at 55+ communities--where there can usually be NO fences because the HOA takes care of maintenance and mows all yards with riding mowers
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Old 02-13-2012, 08:37 AM
 
Location: League City, Texas
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As far as green grass, we have been in a severe drought for the past few years. Read the news.


And virtually everyone has fences--rock walls in El Paso, wood fences in Houston, I have stucco walls here in McAllen--

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