We Go For A Walk

Still readjusting to life back at the UCV.  

Today, with literally nothing else to do, I went out for a walk in my new, old neighborhood.

There is no Beltline Trail within walking distance of the condo, but the roads do have sidewalks.  Nearby Woodland Brook Drive has a sidewalk on one side of the street that extends for about two miles from Log Cabin Road to West Paces Ferry and features a steep hill to provide some level of challenge to the casual walker..  Back when I lived here in the early '00s, I used to jog the length of the road, but this 20 years later, I'm more than content with walking the route.

Woodland Brook and the little communities off the side roads are fairly upscale neighborhoods, with house on 1 to 2-acre lots selling for $1 to $3 million.   Price is more related to the size of the house and the number of beds and baths than the size of the lot.

But given the price of real estate, it has to be quite the status symbol that one resident can afford enough "spare" property to pasture a couple of horses.  Rather than sell that property for a million-dollar home, they can afford to let their horses graze on the grass there.  

Sure, the property is adjacent to a stream and the pasture appears to be floodplain, limiting its potential for new construction, but I'm sure a reasonably creative engineer can come up with a solution to capitalize on the value of the real estate.

But I like it that instead, they just allow their horses to roam free around multi-million-dollar McMansions and exploitative land speculators.  If you can afford it, why not go for it, and if friends and neighbors look on with envy, all the better.