Post #154194 by Digitiki on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 9:07 AM

This makes me fume! I am so sick of So Cal property owners who fight for a cookie cutter home that looks just like the other 1200 homes in their "master planned communities"! Whatever happened to rugged individualisms. These are probably the same people who bristle at thought of big governement telling them what to do in other aspects of their lives and property. I disagree that the neighbors are jeleous. I think they are knee-jerk reactionaries who are would rather stop any type of development that they are not personally familar with on account of fear over their massivly overprices houses. They have so much $$$ invested in their homes that they don't want ANYTHING that may or may not even begin to tamper with their property values. That is why you see mile after mile of boring tract houses that look just like the next one here in So Cal. Just judging from the one picture of the unfinished backyar, this will look very nice and tastefully done. It looks like this family is spending some serious cash on this landscaping. Its interesting too, that these same people would probably have a cow over the simple planting of a plam tree in their area--if theyweren't already there before they moved in. I would think that a certain level of individualism and personal style (tastefully rendered) to the interior and exterior of a home adds to the community.