Can walk to the greenway, 15 minutes bike ride to downtown, and about the same bus ride to downtown. This particular home is actually a steal and I can’t see it being up long at that price.
Funny story, I was having a porch beer with my neighbor Friday night and showed him this house. It is close to us so we were chatting about how we don’t see much stuff in that price range unless it was last updated in the 50s (and all of those get snapped up off market). Today, he calls and tells me he had his agent put an offer in at $271,000 and he lost. Somebody out bid him.
I live near this house and my house was built by the same builder. After the issues we’ve had, I’d be very wary of a house built by him with a flat roof (aka rooftop terrace).
This is completely irrelevant, but you mind find interesting as a recent relocated resident. I grew up on Taylor rd. In [this house](6325 State Rd 2502 https://maps.app.goo.gl/9hsjMTMSAYvtdpyN6) back when Taylor rd was a dead end gravel rd and wendell falls parkway did not exist, as neither did 264 (795?). We used to jump dirt bikes on land that is now your neighborhood, and there was cock fighting, gun shooting, pond swimming good times being had!
This Tweet by David Meeker seems applicable to this thread and hits on a topic we’ve discussed before. Subsequent replies from your truly and the always amazing @orulz!
Let me know if you still feel the urge to catch some air, just picked up another bike for others to ride (ignore my incomplete flooring I’m experimenting with tiles)
Ahhh, when the county was actually country and us city guys could make fun of you hicks.
I’ll just add for those of you new here that when the city & county schools merged, in '73 I believe, the city start date got pushed back to after Labor Day. I’d always heard it was so the country kids could help bring in (prime is the term) the tobacco crop. @John were you in the county system back then? Any who, just an example of tremendously the whole county has changed in the last few years. (please, no one point out exactly how long ago that was!) Sorry for the highjack!
Having major thoroughfares through downtown is never good. A nice road diet for Dawson / McDowell is needed BUT again it’s a major thoroughfare. 30 mph with those volumes and truck % it’d be a slog through downtown which also isn’t good. I know we all hate highways but this is a downfall of not having one through the city. Anyone needing to do stuff ITB is pretty much funneled down this route without any real detour.
If they’re destined for downtown, that’s fine. The issue is if you’re in North Hills and need to go to South of 40, Waze will route you through downtown, not around because it’s the fastest route. If we can get transient traffic to take the beltway and local traffic only through the main arteries like Capital/Dawson/McDowell, it would be a huge improvement.
Is that a positive if they’re visiting from out of town and don’t see our downtown? I might be splitting hairs at that point lol I’d love to be able to have access to streetlight to see how some numbers look.
If my math is right, using 440 to go around would be a 13 mile trip. Being mostly interstate, I can’t imagine it being more than 21-22 minutes. We need these mapping services to get on board with their algorithms better.
Edit: Stopped being lazy and got on the computer to play with the route. It adds NO time to use 440, just the extra mileage.
