From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , TJ wrote:   
      
   >practice wrote:   
      
   >> Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >>> 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.   ;-)   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   That really does depend on where you are.   When we moved here (in '96)   
   one of my co-workers in California on hearing that I was looking to   
   move to Phoenix, mentioned that he had gone to school at Arizona State   
   University, and that the (Northern) edge of town was Indian School   
   Road (about 6 miles North of City Hall). The place we bought is about   
   21 miles North, and the city line is now about 10 miles beyond us.  I   
   also bought 7 1/2 minute quadrangle maps from the Coast and Geodetic   
   Survey store, and the most recent map (base, 1961, revised from aerial   
   photos in 1985) didn't have any streets near the house, let alone show   
   any buildings.   My sister (in Connecticut) has been living in the   
   same house (built 1940) since about 1970. She's the second owner of the   
   property.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   That doesn't surprise me at all   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   They probably locked her down more tightly - the legal repercussions   
   of her "escaping" could be quite high.  But we hear of similar events   
   on a regular basis.  People do want to visit the old place.  My sister   
   and I were recently discussing the house and neighborhood where we   
   were living in 1945 ("the house was built in 1910, and it sold last   
   year for $175k!!!"  "for THAT HOUSE???"), and she's making plans to   
   visit a cousin in Pennsylvania who is living a quarter mile from our   
   paternal grandparents home - which was build in 1835.   
      
   >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.   
      
   Well, that is about 65 years ago, and if you assume that the people   
   who bought then were at least in their twenties, it's not all that   
   surprising that they aren't still there.  That house that my sister is   
   living in was first owned by her mother/father-in-laws, and I've a   
   distant relation (cousin of my older sister's husband I think) living   
   in the family house from the 1930s - but most of the rest of us have   
   been moving about.  ;-)   
      
   >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.   
      
   So it's still being used in agriculture?  How much of that is due to   
   the general up-sizing of the average farm and the decline in the number   
   of family-owned farms nationally?  The farm I lived on in the mid-50s   
   went out of business in the 70s when the old-folk finally died off.   
   The kids had no desire to take over because the work was so hard. They   
   could have a better life working in the brass mills down town (except   
   that most of the industry is long gone from that area).   
      
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