If you bought in Pimmit Hills, when and why did you do it? What made you choose PH?

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Anonymous wrote:These lists of pros and cons are helpful and illuminating to me, and helps me understand why people do buy there. For example, I do not care about SFH (and in fact, prefer TH over SFH for the yard/maintenance factor) so that wouldn't be a check in the plus column for me, to counterbalance the minuses. But I can see if people do want this, and that is fine, that this is a reason why they opt for PH.

I myself do continually drive down there periodically to check it out for myself after reading these posts, thinking, "Is there something I'm missing? Is it better yet?" Since I don't care about the SFH>TH issues, and a few other things, I myself feel more "bogged down" by the cons, such as the overall aesthetics. I found myself yesterday thinking, "What IS it with chain link and this neighborhood? What IS it? Was there a massive sale and everyone in the neighborhood all got it at the same time? This neighborhood needs an HOA to standardize these things." But then again, I realize some people don't like the militarism and homogeneity of HOAs, so I realize they may think my HOA TH devt is < than their PH home!

To each his/her own.

I think chain link was more or less standard when PH was built in the fifties, and since the original owners were all of modest means, chainilnk was default and never changed.

I would say that there are not very many chain link fences up anymore. There are some older original owners that have them but it is now the minority.

Sorry, but this is clearly subjective. Even saying there are not as many as there USED to be, it means little b/c it used to be on every house, right? So, again, I am the OP who just drove around there on Saturday, and, if I see even one house per block with chain link, that is way too much for me.

Good luck finding a place without any chain links that is under 2 million without HOA.

This is true. There are neighborhoods inside the Beltway where new construction regularly is over 2 million now, but there may be an older home on the same block with a chain link fence. Live and let live.

Yes, "live and let live" was the intent of my original, olive-branch-extending post (at the top of this chain) but then someone had to come in here from PH and say that chain link appearances are now negligible.

On any given street I would say it is about 1 to 2 per block in most areas. Which is pretty negligible in most people's opinions. You can verify by using the street view.

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Anonymous wrote:These lists of pros and cons are helpful and illuminating to me, and helps me understand why people do buy there. For example, I do not care about SFH (and in fact, prefer TH over SFH for the yard/maintenance factor) so that wouldn't be a check in the plus column for me, to counterbalance the minuses. But I can see if people do want this, and that is fine, that this is a reason why they opt for PH.

I myself do continually drive down there periodically to check it out for myself after reading these posts, thinking, "Is there something I'm missing? Is it better yet?" Since I don't care about the SFH>TH issues, and a few other things, I myself feel more "bogged down" by the cons, such as the overall aesthetics. I found myself yesterday thinking, "What IS it with chain link and this neighborhood? What IS it? Was there a massive sale and everyone in the neighborhood all got it at the same time? This neighborhood needs an HOA to standardize these things." But then again, I realize some people don't like the militarism and homogeneity of HOAs, so I realize they may think my HOA TH devt is < than their PH home!

To each his/her own.

I think chain link was more or less standard when PH was built in the fifties, and since the original owners were all of modest means, chainilnk was default and never changed.

I would say that there are not very many chain link fences up anymore. There are some older original owners that have them but it is now the minority.

Sorry, but this is clearly subjective. Even saying there are not as many as there USED to be, it means little b/c it used to be on every house, right? So, again, I am the OP who just drove around there on Saturday, and, if I see even one house per block with chain link, that is way too much for me.

Good luck finding a place without any chain links that is under 2 million without HOA.

This is true. There are neighborhoods inside the Beltway where new construction regularly is over 2 million now, but there may be an older home on the same block with a chain link fence. Live and let live.

Yes, "live and let live" was the intent of my original, olive-branch-extending post (at the top of this chain) but then someone had to come in here from PH and say that chain link appearances are now negligible.

On any given street I would say it is about 1 to 2 per block in most areas. Which is pretty negligible in most people's opinions. You can verify by using the street view.

Thanks, but that's ok. I have already said, above, "I see even one house per block with chain link, that is way too much for me." And we have already agreed to "live and let live." So go there, live, love, be happy. I will do so elsewhere. Stop trying to make me like chain-link.