279 sats \ 8 replies \ @grayruby 3 Jan \ on: BuT, wHaT aBoUt ThE rOaDs? libertarian
When I get a chance I must take a picture of the signage in my town posted in a few areas to warn people they are entering private roadways not maintained by the town and then post side by side pics of what the private roads look like compared to the ones maintained by the town.
To be fair, these areas are new developments so the roads have only been "built" in the past 10 or so years but it's really comical when you see the signage, as you are standing on a cracked up, pot hole filled road maintained by the town and looking at the pristine private road they are warning you about using.
Also, to be fair, our town does a decent job maintaining the roads, parks, trails etc. Much better than the city where I felt like a race car driver trying to warm up my tires driving around pot holes on some major streets.
Are the private roads part of an HOA?
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Interesting. Do you get a break out of how much they cost to maintain?
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I don't live in those new developments so I couldn't tell you. I am not rich enough haha. Mostly occupied by people who lived in the city and now moved to our town to retire and have money either by success or dumb luck of buying a house 30 years ago for 200k that they sold for 2M because that's the going rate for a nice house in Toronto now.
All of those homes are over 1M. They are right by the lake and walking distance to the main street in town (walking distance for normal people who only want to walk for 5 minutes- everything in town is walking distance for me). I suppose I could find out what their total HOA costs are but wouldn't know exactly what is assigned for the community roads.
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There's a similar development near us, but I also don't know what they're paying for their private road. I was hoping for a nice middle class example of privately owned roads that would buck the stereotype.
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That's probably a decently accurate magnitude for neighborhood roads. I think most of us would be willing to pay $300 to have roads in our neighborhood.
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