A quiet neighborhood full of empty nests!

[Anonymous]

I posted this elsewhere too, but, I walk through our neighborhood and it’s eerily quiet these days. All the neighborhood kids, who once upon a time played outside for hours together, are all gone. Lots of high school & college graduates among them this year. The houses aren’t turning over yet.

I may need to move to a neighborhood filled with kids running around!

[Anonymous]

Be careful what you wish for! Our neighborhood is changing over and there are kids everywhere and are pretty loud. A little peace and quiet to enjoy nature isn’t the worst thing in the world.

[Anonymous]

That’s how our neighborhood is also. We do have some kids, but they don’t play outside. Many of the homes are owned by people in their 50s-70s whose kids have left home. Hence why NextDoor is filled with arguments over dogs pooping on lawns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted this elsewhere too, but, I walk through our neighborhood and it’s eerily quiet these days. All the neighborhood kids, who once upon a time played outside for hours together, are all gone. Lots of high school & college graduates among them this year. The houses aren’t turning over yet.

I may need to move to a neighborhood filled with kids running around!

What do you've against peace and quiet? This is just cycle of life, gradually some people won't be able to afford or justify keeping these homes and sell them to young families. A good neighborhood is one where all age groups live homogeneously.

[Anonymous]

Set out a plastic pumpkin full of candy and you'll have all the noise you need.

[Anonymous]

Do you have kids? Is that why you want to move to a neighborhood with kids? Otherwise I don’t get it.

The suburbs are made for kids. Everything about them - the schools, the parks, the kinds of restaurants, etc - have families in mind. We loved living there when we had our kids, but when they flew the nest we sold asap and moved to the city and started making our own fun. Now our adult kids join us there and we we have adult fun.

Life goes on. Go with it.

[Anonymous]

I get it OP. I'm too used to city life, when things are too quiet it dries me crazy. lol

[Anonymous]

Move to a lively urban area.

[Anonymous]

I live in one. It's fantastic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you wish for! Our neighborhood is changing over and there are kids everywhere and are pretty loud. A little peace and quiet to enjoy nature isn’t the worst thing in the world.

Humans are nature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you wish for! Our neighborhood is changing over and there are kids everywhere and are pretty loud. A little peace and quiet to enjoy nature isn’t the worst thing in the world.

Humans are nature.

And they don't start chirping at 5:30am like birds do.

[Anonymous]

I never moved out of my “starter home” and we have new families moving in all the time.

Maybe you bought a non starter home so no young families.

[Anonymous]

Most of us can't afford to sell our empty nest houses because even the condo payments are higher than our current mortgage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I never moved out of my “starter home” and we have new families moving in all the time.

Maybe you bought a non starter home so no young families.

Same. We're the former young parents from the late '90s-early aughts who are priced out of moving anywhere else. The new young families must be bringing their generational wealth as well as their little kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I posted this elsewhere too, but, I walk through our neighborhood and it’s eerily quiet these days. All the neighborhood kids, who once upon a time played outside for hours together, are all gone. Lots of high school & college graduates among them this year. The houses aren’t turning over yet.

I may need to move to a neighborhood filled with kids running around!

You can't be serious.