Playborhood - Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques I: Introduction

from Playborhood Palo Alto / Menlo Park

Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques I: Introduction

Posted: 04/18/08 02:26 PM

The hunt for Playborhoods calls for desperate measures...

[NOTE: This the first in a series of four articles on Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques. The second article is about researching neighborhood reputations, the third article is about researching neighbors online, and the fourth article discusses what to look for and do when visiting a neighborhood around a home for sale.]

My wife and I have made “Neighborhood for Kids” - i.e. a Playborhood - our #1 criterion in searching for a home in Palo Alto and Menlo Park. Think about that for a moment. It makes searching for a house extremely difficult, given the information that the real estate industry provides us.

Basically, all that stuff other than price that we see on all the real estate sites and the newspapers is useless to us before we find a house in a neighborhood we like. Architectural style? Whatever. Bedrooms, baths, and square footage? All that may be important, but it’s *secondary*. None of these things can give our kids a good life like a Playborhood can.

from Playborhood Palo Alto / Menlo Park

Guerilla Playborhood Hunting Techniques I: Introduction

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