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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our neighborhood is the opposite. When we moved in there were mostly middle aged to older neighbors and many of us did our own yard work and maintenance.  Over the years a number of the houses have been torn down and replaced with new houses. These people have all maintenance outsourced, including several who pay my teenagers to water their outdoor flower pots that are not reached by the sprinklers.  We who remain in the neighborhood feel that we had to step up our maintenance to meet the standards of the new people.   [/quote]

Good thing you can afford it.  I don’t think it should be responsibility of people how had lived in a neighborhood for a long time to have to live up to the standards of new money.  New money has a lot of choices, they can choose HOA or exclusive rich enclaves that had been established for many decades and never had regular middle class people living there.  But MC people homes are getting torn down to build their new luxury homes, so you should expect there will be some older neglected homes around for a while.   Also, landscaping can get wild over time if you don’t invest more money into changing it periodically and trying to control runoff and invasive species, which regular grass lawn care services will never do.  It costs a lot to redo landscaping and hardscaping.  You cannot expect older home owners to be able to afford this, also considering that their homes and landscaping is worth exactly zero since their homes are tear downs ad will be only sold for price of the land.  Not many homeowners will want to spend a lot of money to keep a tear down home in a tip top condition. [/quote]

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