House at the end of the street

[I'll_buy_that]

This bit reminded me of when i sold my last house. It was in Northern NJ which is very densely populated. It was a new house <3 years but it backed up to a cemetary, which i found pretty good, since there weren't any houses behind me, all the other houses in the neighborhood had another house very close and no privacy in the back yard.

When i went to sell it, many people stated that they wouldn't buy it because living next to a cemetary kreep'd them out. It also was not attractive to any chinese, as many drove up, but did not enter. I finally sold it, but after that experience i would think twice about buying on another cemetary. I liked it, but selling it one day may prove too difficult.

[rjh01]

If the house backed up to a cemetary then the public could look over the back fence and see what you were doing. That would stop you doing the things you 'never' want people to see you doing.

[valis]

Depending on a lot of factor the cemetary could be an attractive nuisance to some.

I knew some folks that lived near an old, by Florida standards, cemetary with the big mossy oaks and the weathered tombstones etc. Local teens liked to sneak in and party. Made for a lot of noise traffic etc. Not the traditional reason to be wary of a grave yard but it was a real pain for the neighbors.

[Beady]

Our bedroom window looks out over the Catholic cemetery next door. I find it handy for astronomy, since the break in the trees gives me my only real horizon. I've been known to sneak over there after dark and set up my telescope among the headstones.

I don't know whether the cemetery has anything to do with it, but we've never had a Halloween Trick or Treater since we've lived here (12 years).

[Ze Kraggash]

The idea of using a mirror to reflect bad luck brings up a great possibility -- point two mirrors at each other so the bad luck bounces between them. This could be a cheap weapon of mass destruction. With light, we can create a LASER. This stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. However, if bad luck is reflected by a mirror*, we could achieve a BLASER -- Bad Luck Amplification by Simulated Emergence of Retardation.

If the bad luck can't leak out, it will eventually build up to the point where the device will explode spreading bad luck far and wide. Set one off in a populated city, and everyone within a 12 mile radius will discover they are related to Ann Coulter. :eek:


* I'm not sure about the quantum properties of luck. The blaser will only work if good luck is composed of Fermions (so is isn't amplified) and bad luck is made of Bosons. (The rest of you can look it up.)

[Dark Jaguar]

But you would have to generate it between the mirrors or move the second one in place just in the nic of time.

What is the approximate speed of luck anyway?

[tsg]

But you would have to generate it between the mirrors or move the second one in place just in the nic of time.

What is the approximate speed of luck anyway?

I'm not sure, but I know good luck is a lot faster going than coming.

[Strider1974]

What is the approximate speed of luck anyway?

It might be related to bad news..........

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really much point in being there." - Douglas Adams "Mostly Harmless"

[RSLancastr]

When i went to sell it, many people stated that they wouldn't buy it because living next to a cemetary kreep'd them out. It also was not attractive to any chinese, as many drove up, but did not enter.I worked in a building which overlooked Holy Cross Cemetary in Culver City, where a lot of famous people are buried - Bing Crosby, John Candy, Bela Lugosi and John Ford among them.

It was easy to miss the cemetary from the front of our building, but our offices were on the fifth floor, and we had quite a view of it.

One day, we had interviewed an Asian guy for a programmer position, and were giving him a tour of the place. When we got to the part of the office where the cemetary was visible, he immediately said "I'm sorry, but I cannot be here" and left the building.

Two other Asians who had called for interviews backed out once they saw on MapQuest that the cemetary was near us.

Weird.

[Mattfn]

I would love to live next to a cemetary. Very good neighbors.....never bothersome or nosey. Except for that really big shindig they have every fall at the end of October.

Mattfn :moose:

[Skeptic Ginger]

Next time, make up a story about it being haunted and at least some people will want to buy it.