Living in a cul de sac? Like it?

[Ceila]

Love our cul-de-sac, too, just like almost everyone else on this thread! Just about the only people who drive down here live here, with the occasional pizza delivery person and friends who are visiting. Nobody uses it as a turn around.

As for snow plowing, we get the exact same service - at the same time - that the rest of the neighborhood gets.

 

[RachaelA]

We are the last house before the cul-de-sac. The only cars that come down our way are our neighbors (maybe 10 cars) and the occasional guests. I love the low traffic aspect and I think it'll be really nice when we have children.

Our development has 4 cul-de-sac in it (the only way in/out is the entrance. We have a neighborhood labor day bbq on one of the cul-de-sac every year.

 

[livndisney]

I don't think I love it. I think it may be more the neighbors that moved in than the actual cul de sac. The neighbor on one side thinks the cul de sac is their personal parking lot. They park where ever they want, blocking mailboxes, cars, and easements. On the other side is a set of very young "free range" children. Basically they are allowed to wander where ever they want and the parents say nothing. (I have already brought one of them home after finding him one street over-parents had no idea he was gone). The kids get in the middle of other children playing and play in other peoples yards etc.

 

[golfgal]

We lived on what I call a "long" cul-de-sac. It was about 2 blocks long leading into a circle. The only traffic we got were people that lived on the street. We had about 30 kids that lived in the area and they all played together. We got plowed out right away, mainly because we had a police officer and a state patrol captain living on our street so we were a "priority" street. It was great.

If you are the first road off a major road I can see where people would use your cul-de-sac to turn around because they didn't know the road doesn't go through.

 

[Danemom]

Definitely request a "Dead End" sign. That cut down on the traffic on our street. We do get plowed last in the winter, but it's no big deal. We just have to drive down our street and the next street is clear.
When I first moved here, my grandfather said cul-de-sacs are the perfect place to live because you'll never get robbed. He said because there is only one way in and out that burglars don't like it. I'm not sure I think that really matters so much, but I have been here 20 years and no house on the street has ever been robbed!

 

[minniecarousel]

We are currently looking to move. One house on a cul de sac we looked at had a basketball hoop right in the middle of the court. I've seen full-heighth hoops up against a curb, especially on a court, but this one was smack dab in the middle of the street! I wouldn't like having to dodge kids & the hoop to get to my house.

 

[kirstenb1]

they're awesome if you have kids. We had neighbors who bought their lot, and our lots are three to six acres, so decent size. Their plat originally showed the driveway fronting onto a busier street, so they put their driveway on the back of their lot, just so the kids would have a cul de sac. They reoriented the building of the house and everything, just to have that.

The snow plow thing gets irritating, but overall, it's still a good tradeoff.

 

[MomofKatie]

We have lived at the and of a cul-de-sac for 11 years and we love it. The street only has 14 houses on it, so we don't have any traffic to speak of. All the kids skate, bike, and just hang out in the circle- we almost always have lots of sidewalk chalk drawings on the street. We are all good friends and have weekly cookouts and pot luck dinners in the summer.

The only drawback is when someone has a party- there is no real room at the end of the circle for parking without blocking driveways. Luckily, most of the driveways are long and wide enough for 5 or 6 cars to park, but every once in a while we have congestion in the circle.

The other nice thing about living in the circle end of a cul-de-sac is that our backyards are really big compared to others in the subdivision.

 

[Big Cuddly Bear]

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The other nice thing about living in the circle end of a cul-de-sac is that our backyards are really big compared to others in the subdivision.

We live at the end of the circle, and yet we have a tiny back yard..... but huge side and front yards. We have a pool in the back yard that is fenced in. That's pretty much our whole back yard.

 

[bethy]

Living on a cul-de-sac is great if most/all of the neighbors who live there get along decently. We are the newbies on our cul de sac and none of our neighbors will talk to us or each other. It's awful and even more noticeable in such an intimate setting where all your houses are facing each other, etc. Most of our nieghbors are original owners and I'm guessing there must be some bad blood or history here that causes everyone to just ignore each other and mind their own business.

Plus all the kids of these neighbors are now high school and college age and RACE in and out of our cul de sac at high speeds. It is sooooo irritating! I have young children and never allow them to play in the front yard unless they are heavily supervised. Not that there are any kids their age around for them to play with anyway.

Sigh. We've been soooo disappointed.

 

[GAGirlInVA]

I grew up across from a cul-de-sac and all the families got along great. The parents would set up cones at the end and let the kids play in the street. Parents would sit in their chairs and watch and have a BBQ. It was really nice.

I think I'd like living in a cul-de-sac. My dream house would be in one I think.

 

[ToyStory Fan]

I live in a relatively new development (unfinished) with 2 cul-de-sacs (an upper and a lower). I agree with most of the posts on here realatively "safe" areas for kids to play, ride bikes etc. But there are definitely a few speeders and or texting while drivers that we see.

One of the BIGGEST problems however, which I am surprised no one mentioned...is the use of the cul-de-sacs late at night by kids hanging out or as a "make-out" point and leaving all sorts of trash - McDonalds wrappers, beer and soda cans/bottles (mainly beer) cigarette butts and empty cigarette packs - even heard from the local landscaper of some shall we say unmentionables that would be used in the act of "hooking up" just thrown out the window of their cars and onto some of the empty lots/properties in the cul-de-sac.

Clearly that is not something that I want in my neighborhood and the local PD has been very responsive when called, but it is definitely an issue and will continue to be until these kids get the message that they need to go elsewhere.

 

[stashbin]

I live in a relatively new development (unfinished) with 2 cul-de-sacs (an upper and a lower). I agree with most of the posts on here realatively "safe" areas for kids to play, ride bikes etc. But there are definitely a few speeders and or texting while drivers that we see.

One of the BIGGEST problems however, which I am surprised no one mentioned...is the use of the cul-de-sacs late at night by kids hanging out or as a "make-out" point and leaving all sorts of trash - McDonalds wrappers, beer and soda cans/bottles (mainly beer) cigarette butts and empty cigarette packs - even heard from the local landscaper of some shall we say unmentionables that would be used in the act of "hooking up" just thrown out the window of their cars and onto some of the empty lots/properties in the cul-de-sac.Clearly that is not something that I want in my neighborhood and the local PD has been very responsive when called, but it is definitely an issue and will continue to be until these kids get the message that they need to go elsewhere.

GROSS!!!

 

[castleview]

I grew up on a small dead end street. The cul-de-sac was fine as far as safety goes and the plowing wasn't a problem. But yes, especially if there are a lot of teens, people will turn around in it.

It really depends on the demographics of the neighborhood. While I was growing up, it probably drove the people who lived there nuts because all the kids used the basketball hoop down there, raced bikes and big wheels and played at the gateway to the woods. A few cars pulled over to smoke, drink or make out once in a while (late 70s ) However, when the bulk of kids grew up, it became very quiet.

 

[tlbwriter]

One of the BIGGEST problems however, which I am surprised no one mentioned...is the use of the cul-de-sacs late at night by kids hanging out or as a "make-out" point and leaving all sorts of trash - McDonalds wrappers, beer and soda cans/bottles (mainly beer) cigarette butts and empty cigarette packs - even heard from the local landscaper of some shall we say unmentionables that would be used in the act of "hooking up" just thrown out the window of their cars and onto some of the empty lots/properties in the cul-de-sac.

Really? Mine is too public and brightly lit to attract this kind of activity.

 

[MomofKatie]

We live at the end of the circle, and yet we have a tiny back yard..... but huge side and front yards. We have a pool in the back yard that is fenced in. That's pretty much our whole back yard.

Our property lines are laid out like pie pieces- we all have average length but narrow front yards and really wide and long backyards. Our front yard only has room for 1 tree, but we have planted practically a forest in the back with multiple pine bark islands.