That’s really weird.
I have never lived in a neighborhood where cars parked outside the homes (with garages) was considered a bad sign, however...
I have seen the types of cookie-cutter developments where it is verboten to leave cars out. Maybe it’s in the HOA covenants or what have you.
These brand spanking new neighborhoods would always creep me out. Perfect (contracted?) landscaping, no vehicles trashing the appearance, no open cluttered-up garages (i.e. workshops). IOW little if any signs of life, save for the lawns and trees.
The places may have been brand new and occupied, but they looked dead. Green graves was the impression I got. Well to each their own. Maybe just popular with busy working spouses who spend little time at home anyway.
So that may be a regional thing also, but if a first sign of such a neighborhood’s decline is that the cars are left out, then I would suspect that the neighborhood was dead from birth. The visible cars not being the red flag, but the initial lack thereof.
Well said.
The places may have been brand new and occupied, but they looked dead. Green graves was the impression I got. Well to each their own. Maybe just popular with busy working spouses who spend little time at home anyway.
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Amazing how the boomers made zombie Leavitt-towns.