Does street name impact your choice of house purchase?
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Anonymous
| Found a house we like...but ugh, the thought of writing out "Tammy Jo Lane" whenever I need to say my address makes me dry heave. |
Anonymous
| Nope. |
Anonymous
| Get a PO Box. |
Anonymous
| Beats Tammy Faye lane. |
Anonymous
| No. But I understand. My last house was a nice round number and cute name, like "100 Maple Drive" and now I have a 5 digit number and a long word I need to spell slowly and repeat. |
Anonymous
| I assume you’re using a fake stand-in name here? “Tammy Jo Lane” would be a no from me. But I could live with Mary Jane or Suzie Q Lane. |
Anonymous
| My husband refused to look at a house on Tinker Bell Terrace. This was a buyers market, and we had at least a dozen homes to look at that day. |
Anonymous
| Yes. I refused to live on Plantation Parkway in Fairfax back when we were looking for houses in 2008. |
Anonymous
| It would have to be an outlier but there can be extreme enough of an outlier to dissuade me! |
Anonymous
| Reminds me of the Gilmore Girls episode where their street was renamed Sores and Boils Alley. I’d probably balk at that. |
Anonymous
| My god these are serious 1st world problems. What a dumb discussion. |
Anonymous
| My grandparents lived on Long Island for a while in the 30s and they were on Josef Goebbels Boulevard |
Anonymous
| No, it wouldn’t stop me. I did used to live on one of those double name roads (like Sarah Lynn Way) and now I live on a street with a much more traditional name (think Oak St.) and I like my address much more. I also think the streets with the traditional names tend to be in older neighborhoods that are more walkable and closer-in. The double names are from circa 1980s/90s construction. Then you get really far out and have the neighborhoods with the pretentious names like Chancellor’s Grove or Devonshire Mews. I don’t think I could do a neighborhood like that. |
Anonymous
| I mean, I wouldn’t be thrilled to live on Boner Ave. or Pedophile Lane, but generally not a problem. |
Anonymous
| Not if I really like the house. But I have had this thought a couple of time when I was house-hunting. |