Shared Backyards: Brilliant or Bad Idea?
SodaHead Living
2012/06/17 00:06:42
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Robert Frost said that good fences make good neighbors. But these days a growing number of homeowners are knocking them down in order to create larger communal backyards.
Joining your backyard with your neighbor’s means there is more room for gardening and entertaining, children and pets and can run around more freely, and you may even be able to build that swimming pool or tennis court you’ve always dreamed of. But the extra space doesn’t come without added difficulties.
“Gardening expenses can be split evenly, but who pulls the weeds and who gets to pick the fruit? Post a sign-up sheet for use of the communal table? Or is there an always-room-to-share policy? What happens when one neighbor wants to sell?” asked Anne Marie Chaker of The Wall Street Journal.
Many of the individuals who have opted for shared backyards explain that they are are hammering these details out in monthly decision-making meetings and in legal documents. The potential risks are evident, but if you actually like your neighbors and are willing to give up some of your privacy, yard-sharing seems like a fantastic option. (That is if you live in a neighborhood that hasn’t prohibited the practice.)
So, what do you think SodaHeads? Is yard-sharing brilliant or a bad idea?
Joining your backyard with your neighbor’s means there is more room for gardening and entertaining, children and pets and can run around more freely, and you may even be able to build that swimming pool or tennis court you’ve always dreamed of. But the extra space doesn’t come without added difficulties.
“Gardening expenses can be split evenly, but who pulls the weeds and who gets to pick the fruit? Post a sign-up sheet for use of the communal table? Or is there an always-room-to-share policy? What happens when one neighbor wants to sell?” asked Anne Marie Chaker of The Wall Street Journal.
Many of the individuals who have opted for shared backyards explain that they are are hammering these details out in monthly decision-making meetings and in legal documents. The potential risks are evident, but if you actually like your neighbors and are willing to give up some of your privacy, yard-sharing seems like a fantastic option. (That is if you live in a neighborhood that hasn’t prohibited the practice.)
So, what do you think SodaHeads? Is yard-sharing brilliant or a bad idea?
Read More: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023037...
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Sayer Stewart 2012/06/17 05:09:21
If you want to live in a socialist community, that is your choice.
If you want it for the entire USA then vote for Obama.
The modern mystics of muscle who offer you the fraudulent alternative of “human rights” versus “property rights,” as if one could exist without the other, are making a last, grotesque attempt to revive the doctrine of soul versus body. Only a ghost can exist without material property; only a slave can work with no right to the product of his effort. The doctrine that “human rights” are superior to “property rights” simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others; since the competent have nothing to gain from the incompetent, it means the right of the incompetent to own their betters and to use them as productive cattle. Whoever regards this as human and right, has no right to the title of “human.”-Ayn Rand
If this were all about community gardening, then the neighbors could buy a lot and share it with all the legalities set in stone.
If someone dosen't do their fair share, toss em out!
Then there is the BS of hammering out contracts and *monthly descesion meetings*, forget it. I have no desire to complicate my life with such nonsense. The least complicated life, is the best life.
I enjoy my privacy and will not sacrifice it. There is satisfaction in being able to go home and enjoying your little piece of the world without the complications of other people.
I clear up after my puppy, but imagine having to clean up after your neighbour's dog as well before your own children/grandchildren could go out and play.
So yeah, if you like your neighbours and visit them a bit it wouldn't be a problem. But I guess a lot of people aren't like that.
Except if you are in a Kibbutz.