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For the record, relating to my last post – I also drew up my vision of a house at http://drawahouse.com. Of course, I didn’t read the instructions that this was actually supposed to be our house – just an image a of a house in general.

Plus, my artistic skills just aren’t the same as Joelle’s:

So, no reason to put this one on the fridge!

Many of my loyal readers have asked me for a picture of what our new house looks like…. Thankfully, Joelle finally took a good photo of our place!
Great job – this one goes on the fridge

(from http://www.drawahouse.com – not drawn to scale)

See if you can make out the:

1. Wrap around deck
2. Bench we put together
3. Our chimneys (preserved for legacy sake – we’ve since gotten rid of one of them – damn rains!)
4. bird feeder in front, including the cute little birdy
5. rocks and plants and stuff

Missing, of course, are the raccoons

I love when people having historic photos of their houses up as artwork, so I decided to search for the information on they got these (so we can have one too…)

http://www.raincityguide.com/2007/04/14/historic-photos-of-your-seattle-home/

has all of the info. Sending an email to them now.

Update, February 18, 2008: Pictures are now in (actually they came a while ago, but just posting today).

Zillow.com recently started posting neighborhood demographic reviews  (based off of US Census data). Interesting reading through them for all of the places I’ve lived to see how they compare to the type of person I was at the time. Pretty close, for the most part; I guess it’s true that people live by people like them.

In order:

• Oak Park, MI (very, very young) – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MI-Oak-Park-neighbors
• Southfield, MI  (lived until  high school) – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MI-Southfield-neighbors
• West Bloomfield, MI (high school) – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MI-West-Bloomfield-neighbors
• St. Louis, MO ("the college")  – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/MO-Clayton-neighbors
• Redmond, WA ("the apartment") – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Redmond-neighbors
• Downtown Seattle ("the steps") – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Seattle/Downtown-neighbors
• Eastlake, Seattle ("the condo") – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Seattle/Eastlake-neighbors
• Queen Anne, Seattle ("the house") – http://www.zillow.com/real-estate/WA-Seattle/West-Queen-Anne-neighbors

I’ll use this to read through these more and come up with some uber-analysis in the future, but for now, seemed like it was a good way to save away the full links.