People in this town have been watching too much HGTV. We've had an influx of folks from Chicago who want to work from home here and every longtime local thinks they're the Property Brothers.
Turns out the new owners of the house next door are not our new neighbors, just the latest flippers. We've been here 11 years and that house has been sold 4 times, each time to someone who does a reno and then puts it back on the market.
I'm trying to figure out if this is good or bad for the neighborhood.
It's bad. The houses get more expensive and no one actually ends up living in them.
We've been offered twice what we paid for this house. It's nuts.
This has been a quiet, stable neighborhood. Nothing fancy, very middle class, really kind of boring if you aren't an old fart like us.
And that's fine with me. I'd like it to stay just that way.