Whether you're thinking of moving to a new city or are you just curious about your own neighbourhood, the Web let you see your town like you've never seen it before.
scoop out the houses: if you choose a town, you can see with satellite view a streetmap of the place. But you also can ask for the "Heat map", there you can see which places are most wanted and popular are, based on prices and sales. You also can ask questions about the area or read discussoins of it. There is also a website where you find the value and prices of your neighbour's houses. And ofcourse there are also internetsites where you can search for available and nearby shops.
check out the schools:there are sites where you can find the public schools testresults and information about private schools. Both sites have a parents review, so you can always follow the discussions.
meet the neighbours:through surfing on the wordwildweb you get a lot to know about your neighbours, you can read their blogs or find forums and discussions. There is also a website to get to know each other, so new habitants can meet and learn each other
It scares me a lot that you can find so much about other people and their way of life, just by typing some words on the internet. It's true that a lot of people put information themselves on he internet, but schoolresults and value of houses, must be something private. Not everybody wants that such a things are known.
Els
source:http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/29/pf/bestweb_home.moneymag/index.htm?postversion=2007120806
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I also think it's rather scary that you can find these kind of information just by surfing the web. I think it's an intrusion on people's privacy.
Laura
I think it is a positif thing that you can get to know your future neighbourhood by surfing the internet. Because you will probably spend the rest of your life there. But I don't think it is positif that people are able to find that much of information about other people. Some things should stay private.
Kathleen
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