[speaker001:] well Carol since today's subject is our homes why don't you tell me about yours
[speaker002:] okay I live in Plano in a four bedroom two bath house which is the area's dominantly three bedroom two bath so I'm just a little bit different than typical uh and of course the Plano area is basically with alleyways so everything around here is set up that way which I think is little a little bit different than most areas in the houses the way they're constructed and it's a brick house with uh some wood it's real nice I like it how about you
[speaker001:] well I I certainly hope so we have a a classic ranch up in Denton Ranch style home I should I would hate to think that anybody thought I the lot we live on is a ranch uh it's in a subdivision and one story it started out life as a three bedroom house and now has no two car garage and has uh the two extra rooms enclosed I suppose we still only have three effective bedrooms but we gained a playroom for the kids and an office out of enclosing the garage
[speaker002:] are most of the houses in your area three bedroom two bath
[speaker001:] almost a hundred percent I I can't think of any four bedroom houses in the subdivision ours is probably the closest to it you know how realtors are they'll say oh this could be five bedrooms yeah if you had two people that don't have any clothes it could be a five bedroom house don't need a closet
[speaker002:] yeah me too the only thing about mine um I think there's probably about oh when I go down the street I can just pick out houses that are that are identical to mine and usually they are the four bedroom um but they're spaced out oh I'd say maybe three or two block period because it's all different builders up here so it's kind of hard at that point to you know classify some of the builders but most of the builders all built three two but the one thing my house is a little bit different and I can pick it out again because it's not typical is I've got the oh what do you call it a uh double ceiling double high in one half of the house so like the den and the living room are all double cathedral ceilings
[speaker001:] uh cathedral ceilings
[speaker002:] and uh the kitchen is norm and the bedrooms are norm so it just goes down the dining room the family room and the living room that way and I love the space it just it's uh luckily I came from a house in Colorado which had the cathedral ceilings and I just lucked out and walked into this one and of course I felt the same airy feeling which I liked it real well so it's a nice thing to move into but again it's not typical in this area you can just spot them because the ceiling the roof is so high much higher but uh
[speaker001:] well I hadn't thought about it in that sense of the high roofs we have cathedral ceilings in uh two rooms and the uh family room and in the master bedroom those are are pleasant
[speaker002:] yeah well it's like when my son goes up into the up into the furnace area over the garage he can walk and he's six foot and he says oh come on up mom I'm not going up there I'm not going up there but he says there's plenty of room up there for a room
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so that means if I knock out the wall in my family room I could make another room overlooking my family room from upstairs with no problem but um I'm not that ambitious I told maybe someday when I feel really ambitious and then get angry I'll start poking holes up there but until that time but uh I've noticed the houses around here are basically it's one story and they're all basically two uh bath two uh with three bedrooms and we're ninety I would say about oh about ninety five percent no I guess maybe probably a hundred percent of them all are mostly brick uh with some wood
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] it's basically all brick the next subdivision over from me is total brick and the one on the other side of me is about the same as mine but uh the one on opposite the street now they're total brick and they're basically almost all three two they're all three two but of course they have a little river going down their area too which is kind of nice
[speaker001:] if it's the kind of river I'm thinking of better them than than us you know are you talking about a real river creek
[speaker002:] no it's a creek they've put little fountains in and such
[speaker001:] well that's nice uh I came from Mississippi recently and the rivers that we had there were the ones that came with the rains and they didn't pay any any attention to banks and
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] that kind of stuff so you're just as likely to wake up and discover you're in two inches of water
[speaker002:] do you have a lot of property I mean a lot of yard around your house now in Denton
[speaker001:] uh it's a third of an acre I don't think that's a lot uh in fact I have been real disappointed in the six years that I've lived out here about lot sizes I'm more accustomed to a one acre lot being a standard and the two acre being what most people have
[speaker002:] yeah when you get down closer in to the newer track homes you find almost like there's no lot line at all they're built practically on top of each other
[speaker001:] that's true
[speaker002:] I know I was
[speaker001:] and an and while while there are some advantages to that there's less time spent outside making it look nice and taking care of things uh I just feel hemmed in by that it's not as comfortable a living for me
[speaker002:] um-hum well this subdivision here has got oh there's enough to put oh I'd say uh what twelve feet between each house on each side well I've got more on one side than I've got on the other but I'm like you I came down from Colorado and there was more land up there around the yard with a big full back yard which here I look out my back yard and I can see the gate I mean the fence is right there I mean just don't run too fast or you'll hit it and I'm not used to that either I mean I could see people putting swimming pools in the back yard all around me but to me you put the swimming pool in your back yard and you've lost your back yard
[speaker001:] entirely
[speaker002:] I mean uh sure I mean you've got a little place on one side or the other but but to me their not that big enough for a pool but you know they're going up so but it's uh it's great for mowing
[speaker001:] from from that aspect you're right and and it doesn't take nearly as long to get out there and weed it by hand and that kind of stuff
[speaker002:] but yes I'm used to uh walking out the back yard and you can play catch across the back yard and you've got plenty of room to even play a small game of baseball but don't do it around here
[speaker001:] no the one that's sort of what drove me to Denton when I first came out here in eighty five I started looking and it seemed like the further I got away from Dallas center uh the more lot came with the house and and the lower the price at the same time and it just seemed like there was a ten thousand dollar drop for each city
[speaker002:] I hadn't thought about it that way
[speaker001:] so so moving up thirty five I stopped when I got to Denton
[speaker002:] it just well see now with our jobs mainly hitting downtown Dallas we couldn't go too much further but we we went that way it was the schools and the cost of houses so we kept going out until we figured we hit a point where we need the traffic time to get into work and that's where we stopped it was the thing same problem but I think Plano is so very different
[speaker001:] you all both you all both work downtown
[speaker002:] I got laid off by TI
[speaker001:] oh well this is a wonderful thing that you that you're doing here still helping them out uh but you were working downtown
[speaker002:] oh I no I was working at the Dallas site my ex-husband was working downtown
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] but I uh uh no TI as far as I'm concerned they've been great as far as layoffs is concerned so I have no problems problems but as far as the housing I would like personally I would like to move out of a four bedroom house and go with something smaller but prices in Plano there isn't um there isn't a section in Plano you can really move to without getting caught and uh if my price right now for what I pay