Property Value

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/nyregion/10towns.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5087&em&en=6ac84f72e23d5d35&ex=1215921600

“BACK before we lost our collective minds and began shrieking with horror at the thought of kids having fun on their own (as in not part of an official league or otherwise organized activity), they used to do things like find a vacant field, turn it into a makeshift diamond and spend glorious hours in the summer sun,” the local newspaper, Greenwich Time, wrote in an editorial in support of the youths on Wednesday."
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"The field had 40 people last weekend for a Wiffle tournament, which is something no one bargained on when they bought their houses."

While there are probably very valid reasons to shut down the field, we seem to have a problem accepting the fact that when we buy a house, we are going to get a lot we didn't bargain for. We don't necessarily purchase the right for future certainty along with the property deed, and it's typical American arrogance to think that we are entitled control over all eventualities. Now I'm about to become a homeowner and we'll see how quickly I change my tune.