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Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by silisili »

aantix wrote: post #17

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood. Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood. I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist. But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard.. Especially considering it seems that kids play ou…

In my experience, age of homes in the neighborhood approximately equals age of kids in the neighborhood, +- a few years. And that makes sense if you think of who is typically buying houses en masse as a group - new families. Now, I don't live somewhere like SF of NY where people cycle in and out, more cities of various sizes in the midwest and south.

My first house was built in the 40's. A few original owners existed, along with second owners. I noticed I guess people don't tend to move often. There were hardly any kids in the neighborhood.

Next house was built in 2009(this would have been 2018ish), and the neighborhood was packed full of kids.

Next house was built in the 80s. A lot of original owners, again, few kids.

Next house was built in 2012, this would have been 2021 - tons of kids

Next house built in mid 90s. This was 2022. Almost everyone in the neighborhood was the original owner, very few kids.

So, if my theory holds, if you want to find a neighborhood with a lot of kids, buy a midrange house in a ~5 year old neighborhood.

(and yes, I realize I've moved a lot).

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by timita »

aantix wrote: post #17

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood. Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood. I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist. But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard.. Especially considering it seems that kids play ou…

If you are based in the UK, there is https://xploria.co.uk. Click/tap on any location on the map and you get a lot of information about the place, inclusive of generations, what percentage of families, singles, etc, schools within travel timw, and so on. Disclosure: I built this web app.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by aantix »

timita wrote: post #22
aantix wrote: post #17

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood. Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood. I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist. But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard.. Especially considering it seems that kids play ou…

If you are based in the UK, there is https://xploria.co.uk . Click/tap on any location on the map and you get a lot of information about the place, inclusive of generations, what percentage of families, singles, etc, schools within travel timw, and so on. Disclosure: I built this web app.

Is this based on census data?

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by timita »

aantix wrote: post #23
timita wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are based in the UK, there is https://xploria.co.uk . Click/tap on any location on the map and you get a lot of information about the place, inclusive of generations, what percentage of families, singles, etc, schools within travel timw, and so on. Disclosure: I built this web app.

Is this based on census data?

Yes, although not yet updated to the one of 2021 (2022 in Scotland).

The main page has references to all data sources.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by diggan »

aantix wrote: post #17

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood. Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood. I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist. But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard.. Especially considering it seems that kids play ou…

> I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood.

Maybe your local city/state/county/country government has a "Open Data" portal where they publish stuff like that? Barcelona for example has a pretty extensive Open Data collection (https://opendata-ajuntament.barcelona.cat/en) where you'd be able to find data like that (probably not ready made graphs/maps though), and probably also averaged data about how many people live in the households of a neighborhood, so you could extrapolate for families, etc.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by nonethewiser »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #6

The available housing preferences may need to be reflected in the title. My desired heatmap is for 5+ beds/3+ baths at [price range]. It's okay this isn't that - but the Housing Preferences descriptor indicates it might be.

I had the same impression. Like Price per Acre.

I didnt expect there to only be 1 type of constraint (travel time to a given location).

I think emphasizing its purely based on distance would be clearer.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by vindex10 »

madcaptenor wrote: post #10

I put my wife's work location and my own in it and it correctly showed me that where we actually live would be a good location. When we moved to our house she worked at a different place, but I can see how this would be useful. The "only show best matches" criterion is a little bit too aggressive in this case, though - it basically says "have you tried living in the middle of the highway"?

Also matched my place perfectly. With my work, leisure and commute requirements! Funny, I feel my requirements overfit on my habits - the area where I live was the only highlighted area with no alternative sweet spots.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by venusenvy47 »

aantix wrote: post #17

I genuinely wish there was a map where you could see how many kids and their age groups are in a given neighborhood. Our current house is great, but there aren't many kids in the neighborhood. I understand this is sensitive information, so it probably doesn't exist. But choosing a neighborhood with other families that are in a similar life experience is kind of hard.. Especially considering it seems that kids play ou…

For younger age groups, you could search for how many elementary schools are in the region. Our town has a lot of these schools, because people don't want to be sending their young children far away. Generally it's not until high school age where the students might have to travel farther from home to school.

Re: Show HN: A website that heatmaps your city based on your housing preferences

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Post by BytesAndGears »

WiggleGuy wrote: post #13
Terr_ wrote: post #3

I've always liked the idea of combining distance criteria, especially when something is good for public transit to work, but not good in terms of walkability to anything I care about. (Some people walk for fun, I always seem to need an errand.) I recall that Walkscore used to have something like this, and then it went away, and then it showed up on some other housing site... I was always surprised the type of feature…

The "grocery store" problem is something I've been thinking about for a while, since it has two problems: - There are tons of grocery stores (efficiency of processing all of those) - Not all grocery stores are the same (supermarkets vs pricey luxury stores vs bodegas) I've been thinking of mass processing one-time then allowing the user to super-impose pre-made heatmaps onto thier existing heatmap.

That would be exactly what I need!

Ideally something like 5min bike ride to the grocery store, 15min walk from a train station, and 30min drive to my in-law’s house.

It would be really interesting to do something like “10 minute bike ride to 3 or more grocery stores”. That would help reduce instances of niche specific stores, but also provides a much more useful variety.

I’d love to be able to find places that have 2+ or 3+ grocery stores within somewhat reasonable distance, and same thing goes for restaurants. Really any restaurant.

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