Subject: On the street where you live
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Aug 22 10
I live on a relatively quiet street close to downtown. It's lined on both sides with tall elm trees growing on the boulevards and they form an arch over the roadway, giving lovely shade in summer and a golden tunnel to drive through in the fall/autumn. All the houses are single family dwellings on small lots, so there's a nice neighbourhood feeling. Yje only large buildings are a church hall, used for community events, a church and a school.
What's your street like?
Posted by: Cymruambyth
Date: Aug 22 10
I live on a relatively quiet street close to downtown. It's lined on both sides with tall elm trees growing on the boulevards and they form an arch over the roadway, giving lovely shade in summer and a golden tunnel to drive through in the fall/autumn. All the houses are single family dwellings on small lots, so there's a nice neighbourhood feeling. Yje only large buildings are a church hall, used for community events, a church and a school.
What's your street like?
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tezza1551 
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Hmmm... interesting question, Cym. I live on the main road between Perth and Albany (Western Australia) so my "street" starts as busy metropolitan, goes for around 250 kilometres, passing by four roadhouses (no town associated), two small towns, then 35km after the second one, my house. Then another 160 kilometres, including another small town and two roadhouses, then at Albany, it becomes a city street again. So..my bit is two lane bitumen, with trees both sides, a few dams and the occasional farmhouse, and not much else other than sheep, cattle and kangaroos. Reply #1. Aug 22 10, 11:32 PM |
blindcat78
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The street that I live on is very winding & near the freeway. It has some trees, but no shoulder or sidewalks just big ditches on both sides. Reply #2. Aug 23 10, 11:05 PM |
sherry75
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I live in a cottage on the main street of a small village on the outskirts of a beautiful town, bussling during the day, but quiet at night. Set well back from the road with trees and hedge for privacy. Wouldnt want to live anywhere else, just about perfect... :-) Reply #3. Aug 24 10, 1:25 AM |
Emma058
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I live on a street with sidewalks and single family dwellings.My street has many trees and older homes with front porches where many sit and watch and interact on the cool evenings. It is usually a quiet street. Reply #4. Aug 24 10, 4:09 AM |
Pagiedamon
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I live on a long, cul-de-sac street. We, too, have a lot of trees, but the homes are newer and are pretty large for the most part (isn't that the trend with newer homes?). Our street has tons of kids, so while it's not exactly peaceful, it's a fun place to be. Reply #5. Aug 24 10, 6:16 AM |
Lochalsh
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I live just a few blocks from a university campus with Gothic-inspired buildings and beautiful landscaping. My own street is lined with oak trees and mid-sized, well-tended houses and flower gardens, and I can easily walk to campus for cultural events. The location of my house gives me a way to be around students but not have to grade their work anymore. :) Reply #6. Aug 24 10, 7:13 AM |
honeybee4
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I live on a rural road with crops all around. There is an alfalfa field to the east, sudan grass and almond trees to the north, more alfalfa fields to the west and south. The river is about one fourth mile to the south of me and the Elementary school and fire station are about three fourths of a mile to the north.I have neighbors but they are not very close. Reply #7. Aug 24 10, 7:47 AM |
lesley153
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My road is urban and busy. Most of it is purely residential, more houses than flats, although there's a pub and a shop and a church not far away. My side is semi-detached houses with low front fences. Across the road are big, detached houses, with bigger front gardens, very high front hedges or gates, and burglar alarms. One family paid £250,000 a few years ago, to build a Tudor-style double garage. Ouch. The more hidden they are, and the more security they think they have, the more they seem to get burgled. The pavement in my bit of the road has paving stones down the centre and grass either side, and there are trees all along it. All the front gardens have at least one tree, and some of the trees have preservation orders on them. Reply #8. Aug 24 10, 8:43 AM |
Cymruambyth
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Judy, not top break the thread, just my insatiable curiosity - what is sudan grass? Reply #9. Aug 24 10, 8:49 AM |
| honeybee4
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Cym, it is made into hay and the best that I can describe it is that it is a cousin to Johnson grass. Reply #10. Aug 24 10, 9:21 AM |
| Cymruambyth
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Judy, Judy, Judy - what the heck is Johnson grass? I'm an urban type and to me grass is grass. Reply #11. Aug 24 10, 11:04 AM |
| honeybee4
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Cym, Johnson grass is a tall thin bladed grass. The picture here shows it seeded out. http://mdc.mo.gov/landwater-care/plant-management/invasive-plant-management/johnson-grass Reply #12. Aug 24 10, 1:09 PM |
| Cymruambyth
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Thanks, Judy. Okay, everybody - back on the street! Reply #13. Aug 24 10, 2:28 PM |
Arpeggionist
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Currently I live on one of those long streets of Brighton/Brookline in Massachusts. The street starts out in Brighton as Brainard Rd. And after a hill, it becomes where I live - Corey Rd. Here, near the top of Corey Hill in Brighton, on the top floor apartment of a small wooden building, is where I've just signed a new lease for the fourth year since I moved here. The road itself can be either very nice or very treacherous (particularly when it's icy and one has to navigate its active topography), but on the whole my house's location is a great one. It is ten minutes from everything on foot - my job, a several local synagogues, a recording studio, restaurants and shopping centers, and a couple subway stops on the green line which could take me into town for anything else I might need (which is usually not much). So I like it here. Reply #14. Aug 24 10, 7:50 PM |
mjws1968
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We live right on the main road, so we get lorries and buses going through at high speed at all hours, and these 120 year old houses shake every time an articulated lorry goes past. This block used to be the commercial hub of the village, almost all the terraced houses had been converted into shops, laundries and pubs, but now most of those businesses are gone thanks to supermarkets and they have been converted back to houses, so we are now left with one grocers, a car parts shop and a chinese. It's a sad state of affairs, but local businesses are being forced out due to the cheap prices in the big stores. The greengrocers closed at the end of July due to lack of custom. Fortunately, we have a frequent bus service that is free for the pensioners that live round here (young people move to Cardiff as soon as possible), otherwise they would stave paying local shop prices. Ah well. Reply #15. Aug 26 10, 7:16 AM |
| cowdom
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We live in a townhome on a side street off of a semi-main road. The interesting thing is that while our address is the main road, we are actually located on the side street, and we are behind some houses on the side street so you can't see our house from the street, so no one can really find us. Makes ordering pizza or having repair folks trying to find us an interesting experience. And once we had the EMTs come to our house when they needed to be at a house on the main road. But that worked out okay. Reply #16. Aug 28 10, 12:26 AM |
C30
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Suburban England...about 1.5 miles from town centre....our road usually used as "short cut" by commuter traffic and "race track" for "Boy Racers". Most of the houses are semi-detached and of pre-war vintage with fairly large gardens. Ours is a corner house, so even bigger garden, with lots of trees, bushes and the like affording privacy. Although these side roads are 30mph limit, nobody but nobody heeds it, the police are not the least interested (in fact in the 16 years I have lived here, I don't recall ever having seen a policeman patrolling this area). However, relatively little crime apart from the "routine vandalism" by bored feral youths. Some of the older trees than line the street were diseased, so the council removed them and replaced them with young saplings.......they lasted about a week.........and were ripped up by above vandals. Quite reasonably, the trees have not been replaced. Reply #17. Aug 28 10, 1:38 AM |
golfmom08
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I was going through the chat boards and this is a very interesting question. I live in Florida, nowhere near Disney. I'm in a very rural area. The road is made of limerock and is very dusty and bumpy! There are 5 homes on the other side of our road and 3 on my side. It is about a mile long and to get to it you have to drive on 4 more miles of limerock road. I love it! Reply #18. Dec 05 10, 7:42 PM |
alaspooryoric
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My street is still under construction. It is called a "Circle," but the circle is incomplete. The neighborhood developer is in the process of paving the rest of the street and then building new homes to sell on the rest of that completed street. Across the street is a field or meadow with beef cattle grazing on it. There are also several old trees towering above the property. There are always several birds in the area. Furthermore, an occaisional armadillo, opossum, skunk, or fox wanders into the yard. Reply #19. Dec 20 10, 12:14 PM |
Greatguggly
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Can't say much for the street itself, it's gravel. Sure do like the neighbors though. Also, our area has many beautiful lakes and ponds in which for me to fish! So I'm happy. Reply #20. Dec 21 10, 2:33 PM |
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