chasm

I've been inlove with this sort of old cottage type home ever since last summer, when I attended a friend's wedding in England. The reception was in her family's house, which I realized was older than my country. Utterly charming, complete with a thatch roof.

However, the concept of fabricating a community like this creeps me out almost as much as Celebration, Florida - the town built and owned entirely by Disney, where they truck in leaves from New England in the fall, and the streetlamps emit foam-bubble "snow" in the winter:
http://www.celebrationfl.com/

Yeah, I'll be the first to admit that I gave my cousin and her family a hard time for moving into a "housing community" right outside of Hilton Head after I heard some of the "rules" about what they could and couldn't do with their property. However, as I have grow older and have seen my neighborhood deteriorate before my eyes, I can understand the allure of some regulation.

Yeah, I think regulation like that sucks monkey ass. However, unless you have a TON of money and buy a VERY expensive home, its tough to keep out the neighborhood trash.
The Shire is pretty freekin cool. Im waiting for a "Wild West" version, saloons, bonnie and clyde, everything :-)

I have to ask: How on Earth did you come across The Shirt, OR?

That said, dibbs on the one that looks like Frodo's house in 'The Lord of the Rings' movie...

I caam totally down with living in this alternate reality.

but, might i interest you in joining me in what I like to call, the "urban shire"?!?!? http://www.allentownpa.org/

Rob, the mere fact that your neighbors are hobits does not mean that you live in The Shire.

I would totally dig living in some sort of period style housing development. For the sheer joy of it. I might even dress like em.