A Decade of Living in Suburbia

Here have been my current dwelling aerial views over the past few years.  Street and city names have been removed - but you can easily see I've lived in the suburbs over the last decade of my life.  I am currently living in a suburb - and am meeting the requirements that were discussed in class yesterday:

1. Affluent Middle Class
2. Far from work; 20-25 minutes drive.
3. Home Ownership
4. Homes in center of big yards

2015-Present

The previous places where I have lived I have rented, but they have always been in a suburb neighborhood.

2013-2015

2009-2013

2009-2010

I'm probably not going to move out of the suburbs soon unless there is a major change in my life.  My wife likes living in our home, and if we have children down the road it would be a good place for them to grow up.  My ideal dwelling is designing and building a hobbit hole on more then the half acreage of land than I own now, where the house is partially built into a hillside and takes advantage of natural daylighting, natural ventilation, and rainwater harvesting passive strategies.  I would like to have a house that is net zero - or net positive and we sell extra energy back to the grid to the local power company.