Neighborhood rating – find your sense of place
How you view your world is the essence of how you perceive happiness. You are planning on buying so shouldn’t you enjoy it? Life is short and so is your decision making time when you finally find the place you can live with.
Rating a neighborhood is a personal perspective of our past experiences. Our best decisions are based on when we acknowledge our past experiences of life and bring them forward to our perspective of the present and views of our future.
As such, the rating and evaluation of a place is independent of the simplistic and generic views portrayed for the masses. We are not masses but masters of our universe. As such we should take count in our minds based on criteria that reaches beyond the general statistics and make decisions based more on our accumulation of inner feelings about a sense of place and sense of being.
Rate each area, as your own. The following list is a start to your adventure in identifying your best sense of place that fits your lifestyle.
A) Impressions and feelings - questions to ask yourself
- What is your first impression of the neighborhood?
- What is the overall character of the homes…style, feel, colors, age?
- What is the historic character of neighborhood?
- What are the sounds around you when you stand in the street?
- What are the smells?
- What are the sounds of nature?
- Shade-ability – How green is the neighborhood? – Are there trees, shady streets or does the place have curb appeal?
- What in your first impression makes you feel good or bad or any emotion at all?
B) Gut feelings
What are our gut feelings? How is it an emotion can come from our inner self? Doesn’t all our emotions stem from our minds located in our brains located in our head or do they? When one starts becoming aware of self, without technology, without exterior banter of people and things we gain that core sense of being and use it to evaluate our environment.
Your gut feelings acknowledge details visible and invisible beyond smells and the 5 senses and draws emotions that we should acknowledge and make a part of how we rate a place. This is a personal feeling that maybe different from your partner or agent’s feelings about a place. It is that within us that needs to be added as an important consideration and let the technology such as pictures, videos and even this gofindhome application have a supporting role in the process, reinforcing or not that feeling in your stomach, those goose bumps, that feeling of warmth or cold on the skin, in the hair and that which defines us as human beings.
C) Time
Time changes everything and when we see and feel neighborhoodsthe time of day for the place and our sense of time of day will influence both (A) and (B) of the neighborhood rating. Be conscious of this as one progresses on the path.