Just moved into west hillhurst/briar hill/hounsfield heights from crescent heights east, we are in a really weird stretch of houses that are in a park bordered by the three neighbourhoods, in a design that is perfect for DINKS but not families due to house designs.
Advantages:
- no kids live in any of the houses
- we live in a dog park and have 2 (soon to be 3) dogs, so super advantageous
- lot is narrow but suuuper deep which is fine by me (35x182)
- the views are amazing, downtown to the mountains if the sky is clear
- decent street parking with no permit down the block if we have more guests than our driveway takes
- convenient access to everything
- no issues with homeless due to our street bring harder to get to, this was a huge problem at our old place
Disadvantages:
- property taxes, assessed value is $240k more expensive then we paid for the house
- driveway approach is brutal, still figuring this out
- low garage ceiling
- 22x24 garage with not much room to grow but up ($$$), I wish I had a 3 car with a pad (though the fiancé is glad I can’t go crazy buying cars)
- the Safeway’s close to us are full of old people and homeless, if we have to do a big round we drive the extra 3 minutes to centre
- no rear access to property will make landscaping a bitch
- my walk to work went from 30 min to 50 min, but I will likely start running in which is around 25 min. Drive is about 3 minutes in but 40 out due to 8th st/memorial/Kensington BS
Net positive move overall, still getting used to the area
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