You're in your 30s and you have a house? What is this dream economy you live in?
this post was submitted on 15 May 2026
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The trick is living somewhere with such a low cost of living that you literally will never be able to afford to move anywhere else.
I hear a lot of people in the US moving to places with low cost of living like Missouri and Mississipp thinking it's some crazy lifehack or something, like no, there's a good reason why it's cheap there, and you're gonna be trapped there!
Arkansas has some beautiful historic houses. I'd love to own a historic home but never there. I don't want to live in the land of lynchings.
Why of course they used the normal and totally intended way that millennials or Gen Z usually acquire houses, they inherit it!
It's how I got my drafty 1 bedroom termite nest.
Seriously. Who could afford such frivolities like having a place to live.
Zone 3B is no dream.
The one where we bought our first house in 2000.
I did not buy a house in 2000, because I was 16. No house for me!
Did you try being older or more wealthy?
Those fucking kids don't know where to park!! Time to take matters in my own hands! "Takes the gun and goes outside"
Where I used to live, I'd see people posting on Nextdoor all the time, like, "Someone I don't know is parked on my street!" and people would be giving them advice to call the police. 😭 I was like, come on, someone is just visiting/working somewhere nearby and couldn't find a closer place to park.
Nextdoor is how you can objectively conclude that many people are in fact actively evil, not neutral.
Nextdoor is nutty, lol. People's reaction to every incident like this is either "call the police" or "make sure you have your gun ready, just in case"
Mines just people asking for small business recommendations
Freak behavior, Nextdoor is for racists and boomers only, they must be up to something.
How dare other people use the public facilities constructed using everybody's tax money‽ it seems that, in the same way that atheists disbelieve in just one more god than Christians, c/fuckcars people hate only one car more than drivers do.
In my neighborhood, you're supposed to park on your driveway or in your garage. There's a bunch of newcomers moving in that increasingly park in the street. The streets are 2-way, and there isn't room for 2-way traffic with parking on both sides.
You should see Seattle neighborhood streets. Everybody parks on either side in either direction making them effective one-lane streets, and you have to play pull-over chicken every time there's someone up ahead traveling in the opposite direction.
At least most people are considerate about it. What drives me crazy is when there is room for the cars to keep driving and pass one another, but one driver decides they have to be in the center of the street.
Typically roads in neighborhoods are constructed by the developer and are transferred to the city later. Those costs get baked into the house price, so in a way the original homeowner funded the road.
My neighbor has 4 teenage kids of driving age. I’d be pissed about all the cars if he wasn’t fighting the HOA with all his might to overturn the “no street parking” law. I don’t care about my view as much as I care about him fucking with the HOA.
FWIW, this was an issue in my neighborhood, but since the neighborhood streets are city owned/maintained, not private, the HOA rule was declared unenforceable since it’s a public street with no special parking restrictions. It was pretty straightforward once that was clarified.
FWIW indeed. I’ll have to look into that. Thank you, fren.
My neighbors across the street have a million cars parked out front like it's a mechanic shop or hotel lol I'm used to it.
My friend lives next to a mechanic shop and a hotel, so your comment paints a very vivid picture hahaha
Well yeah… Park in front of the house that you were visiting. You don’t know my plans for the day you don’t know if I’m going to need that space for people to park at my house. Quit being an entitled twat.
Does that parking place belong to a home owner?
No, the public street does not belong to a homeowner.
That was my point
This is just one reason why we planted buckwheat and sage. Needs basically no water, and creates a nice hedge along the front yard border that is now trying to be about 8' tall. I have to keep trimming them back down to the 7' that I want them.
Note we picked these plants because they are native to the area, if you don't live in the SW US, there are much better hedge plants you can use.
how well do the roots deal with pipes? i have some need for a natural border here in new england and some stuff looks nice but will wreck my sewer piping.
I don't know, there weren't any sewage lines near the front of my property, and as far as we can tell all the plants a growing towards the swales we dug to capture what limited rain we do get.
is there some kind of map resource that lists native plants for given areas? it's kentucky blue far as the eye can see everywhere i go