From: TJ@noneofyour.business   
      
   On 04/26/2013 01:44 AM, practice wrote:   
   > On 04/25/2013 03:06 PM, Moe Trin wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   >> article   
   >> , Adam wrote:   
   >>   
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   >>   
   >>> I know she sold the house next to hers (across from my parents), which   
   >>> is one way of ensuring nice neighbors.  I still think of that house as   
   >>> the one with the fast turnover because it's gone through five families   
   >>> in under 50 years.   
   >>   
   >> Obviously the "lemon" of the neighborhood.   We don't see all that much   
   >> turn-over.  We're one of the six (of 54) non-original owners (built in   
   >> 90/91).  Three of the six were sold twice in that period - snowbirds   
   >> who bought in the late winter/early spring - and (likely) later learned   
   >> that it gets kinda warm here in high summer.   ;-)   
   >>   
   >>          Old guy   
   >>   
   >   
   > About 6 months ago, I noticed that we are the "senior" residents on the   
   > block. Over the last24 years, we have seen occupants come and go, some   
   > stay a few months, others stay for a few years. The second oldest   
   > residents have been here about 18 years.   
   > The people that we bought our house from lived here for the previous 35   
   > years. For the next 2 or 3 years *after* the gentleman sold to us, he   
   > came over once a year and ask if he could polish the brass door knobs   
   > and switch plates in exchange for some raspberries that he had planted   
   > years before.   
   > Finally he passed, and his wife was put into assisted living about 3   
   > blocks away from here because she had Alzheimer's. One Sunday morning we   
   > got a phone call from 'the home' wanting to know if Helen was here as   
   > she had come up missing. "Yes, she is, but could you wait a while before   
   > coming to get her as she is telling us stories of This Old House and her   
   > family and the neighborhood, etc!"   
   > They came by about an hour later. That was the last time we saw her.   
   >   
   >   
   If you talk families, we are the seniors on our "block." (I live in the   
   country - our "block" covers a square mile or so.) Of the families that   
   owned various places in 1948 when my grandfather bought this place, we   
   are the only ones left. Worse yet, there were four farms on that "block"   
   in 1948, and there is but one now - us. Some of the land is rented to   
   other farmers, but that isn't the same thing.   
      
   TJ   
      
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