The Street Where You Live

About 200 residents. No street lights or anything like that, a little bit of through traffic but the village is just off a larger road so not much.

Our house was the only one on the street for 2 miles. We were surrounded by woods and 80 acres of vineyards across the street.

The vineyards were the first to go, replaced by Mc-Mansions - $500 homes, I wouldn't want to be caught dead in after watching them build them.

The woods around our house were clear-cut and in their place Estate Homes. This is the same for the 2 miles of road where our house is located. An exclusive/executive country club was built at the far end of the 2 miles.

Now traffic is non-stop. Mostly high end cars and SUV's up and down the road day and night. They are building a new interchange off the interstate that will flood us with more traffic.

The estate homes drive the value of my home up, but the traffic will drag it right back down.

seriously.

We moved out here 16 years ago because of the quiet and trees and isolation.

In all that time only one home has been built on my road, about 1000 feet down the hill. Before that, the closest neighbor was almost 1/2 mile away.

The biggest deterrent to building here is the terrain. Very deep bedrock in some places. Deep ravines with streams at the bottom. Clay soil with lots of underground water (springs). Anyone building a home where I live needs to have a well and a septic tank.

Plus it's at least a 40 mile round trip to do a decent grocery shopping. You have to be a certain type of person to live out this way.

The only exception to that is when there's an event at the park (just down the street) or yard sale weekends. Then there are a LOT of unusual cars passing by. I just sit in the yard and yell, "SLOW DOWN! And STAY OFF MY LAWN!"

I live on the corner of a secondary but busy road (in other words, not a road with commercial property, but residential, and a connector to primary roads with commercial frontage), and a subdivision side street that feeds into a lot of residential streets. So, it's pretty busy except for the wee hours of the morning. I can usually tell roughly the hour if I wake up at night just by the traffic, if it's very quiet, it's probably between 3:00 and 5:00 am. Traffic starts up a steady stream at 5:00 am for the morning commute.

It drives me crazy sometimes. But it's nice to have a very quiet street. That's not to say it's quiet elsewhere. We can hear lots of noise from nearby streets!

The only traffic comes from people that live in the apartments and visitors.

Quite day and night, except for when the jackass in the red Mustang with the blaring stereo drives down it.

nice rural little town, only 1 other house on my street, now there are 2 more but still pretty quiet, hardly any traffic.

I'm lucky. the new kids across the way are learning how to roller skate in the street not in my driveway this year, Mrs Otani and I twirled the rope for an hour i swear till the kids picked up how to do it and not knock themselves down during double dutch. The teen age boys who made the ramp have moved on to the skateboard park, and the plastic basketball hoop is now a metal one, but it's 15 houses away, under a street lamp. Lady Madonna, the ancient old english sheep dog still finds the wherewithal to bark & run the fence like she's gonna come over that fence & mug me for the dog cookies . Princess defends us back every time ( I suspect that when both dogs go inside after that ferocious display, glucosamine & aspirin are given in a glob of peanut butter). h The kids are great here the road and sidewalks are in good repair, waterlines are coming up on 50 yrs old, so there have been a few specular surprises on winter mornings that have been fixed pretty quick, we got shady big trees, 90% of the homes are in fair to good shape and the asshole neighbors are at the other end of the block. If anyone is looking for a nice blue collar neighborhood, one block to the bus, 2 blocks to an hispanic/somali grocery store, PM me. there is a nice little ranch coming up on the market late summer.(not mine) And many of the neighbors Democrats.

One way street in an urban residential area. Packed with parked cars. Not too busy during the day, but weekends and evenings are busy.

in near-north Minneapolis. Main through streets are a couple of blocks a way in any direction. Quiet as can be unless the church kitty-corner from my duplex has an event going or a local resident's boom-car happens to be driving by and that only happens a couple of times a week.

It's in a small suburban development designed to reduce through-traffic so that only the people who live in the few dozen houses are the ones driving. But all day long the people who make up the few dozen families living here are driving back-and-forth non-stop. I have no idea why they are constantly driving somewhere in their vehicles, most of which are the size of tanks. Every day I go to the front yard to water two newly planted trees giving them each one gallon from a jug. It takes two or three minutes. Each time at whatever random time I go out, I ask myself if today a car won't go by in those two minutes. Every single time there is car after car going by in the middle of the day in this small neighborhood. On most days, I can't even back my car out of the driveway without having to wait for a couple of cars to go by first.

My street is crescent shaped. It is not a through street because it goes nowhere. You enter on the avenue and it makes a wide curved half-circle right back to that same avenue a couple of blocks down. As a result we get almost no traffic at all.

The neighbors' houses are not "right on top of each other" like you get with some cul de sacs.

I was just playing fetch with the dog out in the unfenced front yard.