charles tabb Loc: Richmond VA.

My wife & I bought a house (Our 1st) 50+ years ago, and we are still living in it today.

Stash Loc: South Central Massachusetts

I've never seen the Google car on my road but when I goggle my address, there's my house.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

That was more common for us boomers. It is not as common for people in their 20s today, especially for those with advanced degrees. Many will job hop, city to city, throughout their early careers. College and graduate school often expose people to different regions, at least for a while. Corporate jobs take people all over the place, and then many move "back home" to care for aging parents.

I went to my 45th college reunion last year. Very few of my classmates had stayed in one home.

I worked the Census in 2020. When the folks in Washington decided we were having too little luck getting people to answer their doors, they told us to call the last known phone number associated with the address in 2010. Each day, while my staff knocked on doors, I called the list of numbers for the addresses they couldn't get to respond.

About 0.5% of those calls resulted in answered phones. Over 80% of numbers were disconnected, changed, or "not in service." I'm sure lots of folks had dropped their land lines in favor of cell phones, but some had simply moved on.

Old Coot

Cameras can't lie. Its the operators who manipulate the resulting image.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

I went to my 50th High School reunion about a decade and a half ago. Don't know how many had stayed in one home (probably not many) but more then 30% of them lived within 25 miles of the High School. Out of 82 graduates, 3 did not go to college. More than 30% of them had postgraduate degrees. I know one lived in her parents' house (the parents were long gone by then).

When I bought the farm, the previous occupants had been born in the house. The title search was easy. They were required to go back 100 years. I bought it in '92 and the previous family had bought it in '99 (not the same century).

I lived in the first house I bought for about 7 years. The second for 35 years. The third house (on the farm) got torn down to avoid having it fall down on its own. The fourth house I lived in for 6 years. Working on the 5th now (5th house, that is).

The first house I bought cost about 1.25 times the family income. The second house cost about 2 times the family income. The third house cost about 3 times the family income (and got torn down). By the fourth house I was retired so the family income was pretty small and I treat it as an outlier.

TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA

They simply do not go on private roads or streets because they legally do not have releases signed by everyone living there. It s better to be safe than sued.

BebuLamar

I don't know Jerry! I think camera never tells the truth because it simply can't. When I sell my house the realtor took some pictures of my house and post. There was nobody interested for a while. They asked me if I have some pictures so I took some pictures and sent to them. I got my house sold relatively quick.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

Most real estate agents use their cell phone for photographs. While there is nothing wrong, cell phone are not really designed to take architectural photos. The lens of a cell phone although made from sapphire glass really cannot render a room or a façade other than in such a way to produce parallax or keystoning. I invested in a quality tilt-shift lens. Granted they aren’t cheap because of the internal light bending mechanism. That way, a wall or an exterior doesn’t look like it is falling backward. The average
T-S lens runs about $1500 and up. Kept as neutral, it also serves as a wide angle. The downside is there is no autofocus mechanism. It is best to use this camera and lens with a tripod.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

The best photos taken by these cars are the ones I've seen where people knew it was coming and prepared. Some funny photos.

cwp3420

If that car came into Albuquerque in the evening and spent all night at a hotel or motel, it would be leaving without that camera the next day.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Well, if that happens, now they'll know it was you.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

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Reuss Griffiths Loc: Ravenna, Ohio

I couldn't remember my brother's street address in Delmar Ca. so I got on google street views and went to his house to read the address off his mailbox. To my surprise, he was standing next to it fussing with his flowers on his lawn. I pointed this out to him to his surprise also. Sometime later, he returned the favor and called my attention the street view of my house and I also was in the picture. My house is set back about 50 yds from the street so I wasn't that apparent, but I knew it was me messing with my flowers on my front deck. One of life's little surprises.

Ctrclckws

An older model, spotted in 2016, at the dealer.
It was in for service.