Beautiful! My house is nothing like any of those.lol. When I moved here, I initially planned to buy a 3 bedroom loft in the city. I wanted 20ft ceilings..dropped lighting..exposed brick...corner unit with humongous windows. Then, my mother convinced me to have a yard.. So, I wanted to buy a 100+ year old home in a historic district near downtown, with a small yard.
BUT- after a painstaking search and a lot of painstaking thinking.. I finally decided to buy a 10 year old house in the outerburbs.. with a big yard, and none of my original “must haves”.. including- walking distance to Starbucks.ha ha.
This is the first time in my life that I am not near the water, not in walking distance of anything, no where near “the action” by foot. It’s weird and I still haven’t completely grown accustomed to it.
Edit “life” as in adult life from 18+. I grew up in the suburbs. I didn’t want to raise my children in the suburbs though.
As always, whatever we feel works best for our families is the most important thing. There is no predetermined formula. We love, we raise, and we guide our children the best we see fit. I love my children with all my heart, and they turned out better than good...!!!!!!!!!!
Better than me, for sure...!!!!!
I don't worry about their futures!!!!!!!
I have always lived in the suburbs for the vast majority of my life, and have loved it. The exception was the two years (82-84) when I lived with a buddy of mine from the northeast that was down here going to UT at the time.
We lived in a place in the heart of the UT campus. IT. WAS. A. HOOT...!!!!!!!!!!!!
We walked everywhere, even when we were drunker than Cooter Brown!!!!!
Never got into any major trouble, and it was awesome to be within walking/stumbling
distance of almost everything...!!!!!!!
With that said, when DWifey and myself started looking for homes to start a family in, it was unanimous burbs. And, as I've posted before, a dead end street is what we settled on. We loved the house, and knew it would make us feel safer for them. Again (why I always feel the need to clarify this here lately
is just ridiculous) no judgment on others, just our choices.
And, I love my family, sooooo very much more than they could ever know...!!!!!!!!!!
