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Originally Posted by BubblesandPat
We really like the Oak Hollow location... We are planning to go look at night to see if the lights affect anything...
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We looked at lots in Well Point (south of McNeill) and Oak Hollow. You are 100% correct in going over at night - just park somewhere and look and listen.
We had zero qualms about the prison in terms of security, and only slight qualms in terms of resale. We did go over at night and parked for awhile - the lights were objectionable to us, as were the prison announcements. It would have to be the "perfect" lot for us to ignore/live with those aspects - and we would have, for the right lot.
Keep in mind we had a list of "we don't want that" for ANY new area, so the bar for us to want a new lot was pretty high. Honestly we only found one lot that fit our needs enough to try for it, it was on Panlileo Loop, and I think we were 117th in the lottery for that one. We subsequently purchased pre-owned in our current general area.
I guess my $0.02 is that if you love the house and it meets (90% of?) your needs, and your night trip does not produce any real objections, having the prison there would not stop me from buying.