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plonqI called up Google Maps and selected one of our newer subdivisions at random. Have a look at the street view and pan the camera around. Do you notice anything? I am going to say that you probably did not, because there is nothing to notice here. This subdivision is so generic that it could be dropped into any number of North American cities and nobody would think that it was out of place.
When you drive down the any street in this subdivision you are met by row after row of huge garages with little houses hiding behind them. They are all built from the same 3-4 designs, and coloured in bland earth tones with that ugly prolapsed car barn sticking out in front.
Compare that to a street like Cathedral, up in the oft-maligned north end of the city (i.e., our end of town). It's not quite as upscale as the other neighbourhood, but it's also nowhere nearly so generic. The houses come in different sizes and shapes and colours. Each one has a unique stamp put on it by the builder, or the current owner.
Now that our house is nearly paid off, I've had a few people ask me when we are planning to sell it and move to a newer, or more upscale home? You mean buy some faceless garages with an attached house down in Forth Richmond or Island Lakes? How about never? Even if it currently screams white trash with its torn up side-walk and fence lying in a heap, our house is still unique from the ones around it. I don't think I am ready yet to surrender my individuality to live in one of those herd-like stalls down in the south end, thank you.
If we sell this house, it will be to either move somewhere interesting like Wolseley or Tuxedo, or to buy some land out of town and build a geodesic dome house.
When you drive down the any street in this subdivision you are met by row after row of huge garages with little houses hiding behind them. They are all built from the same 3-4 designs, and coloured in bland earth tones with that ugly prolapsed car barn sticking out in front.
Compare that to a street like Cathedral, up in the oft-maligned north end of the city (i.e., our end of town). It's not quite as upscale as the other neighbourhood, but it's also nowhere nearly so generic. The houses come in different sizes and shapes and colours. Each one has a unique stamp put on it by the builder, or the current owner.
Now that our house is nearly paid off, I've had a few people ask me when we are planning to sell it and move to a newer, or more upscale home? You mean buy some faceless garages with an attached house down in Forth Richmond or Island Lakes? How about never? Even if it currently screams white trash with its torn up side-walk and fence lying in a heap, our house is still unique from the ones around it. I don't think I am ready yet to surrender my individuality to live in one of those herd-like stalls down in the south end, thank you.
If we sell this house, it will be to either move somewhere interesting like Wolseley or Tuxedo, or to buy some land out of town and build a geodesic dome house.
