Originally published at: Real estate listing glosses over cemetery in the backyard | Boing Boing
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The realtor should have made special mention in the listing about the “quiet neighbours”.
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I think there was a lot of perspective distortion in that video tour.
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You know, it has the potential to be your “forever home”.
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Maybe an excuse to revive old trends? Everything old is new again, right?
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Honestly, I’d rather have a cemetery in my “backyard” than be a**-to-a** with the house behind me. And there’s an extremely low chance any development (like a road or freeway) is going to end up in your backyard either. Better sky views and everything. I’m sold.
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It’s a pretty grim view - not the headstones, but the lack of greenery. There’s no back yard, the cemetery has nothing but short-trimmed grass, tightly surrounded by houses and some pretty industrial-looking buildings across the way. Total lack of trees and shrubbery, except a few neighbors (that you’re not going to see). Bleak.
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Don’t count on it.
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Oh my God! We’re on the site of an ancient Caucasian burial ground!
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Do I owe @SpunkyTWS a Coke, and then you owe me a Coke, or do I owe @SpunkyTWS a Coke and you owe each of us a Coke, or do I just pass on the Coke you owe me to Spunky?
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“We’ll take it.”
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That’s cool, I would live there.
The Cemetery
In 1793 the area behind the meetinghouse was designated as a cemetery for members of the congregation. This action was prompted by a yellow fever epidemic which struck Philadelphia that year. Over 1000 people are buried in the cemetery including several Brethren leaders, such as Alexander Mack, Sr. (1679-1735), Alexander Mack, Jr. (1712-1803), and his wife Elizabeth Nice (1726-1811), Peter Keyser (1766-1849) and his wife Catherine Clemens (1770-1854), Louis S. Bauman (1875-1950), and Jacob C. Cassel (1849-1919).
https://www.brethren.org/bhla/germantowntours/
When we were kids there was an abandoned cemetery nearby where we would play and later hang out and drink. I just now googled it because I remember hearing it had been restored, it has and there are actually newer plots there. But the sad thing is there is a new cemetery on the same property for fetuses, infants, and toddlers of indigent refugees that ended up in Michigan. Learn something new every day.
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Allow me to get some for everyone.
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NGL - I think it would be awesome to have a historic cemetery right next door.
I need to take up stone carving in the future… I want an obelisk.
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I mean, don’t a lot of folks already have this situation in places like Chicago, Los Angeles, and NYC?
Now I’m wondering if you can see Lemmy’s grave from the telescopes at Griffith Park. 
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Still better than being near a golf course. Very few chances of losing windows to flying balls or overhearing annoying banter.
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My current abode is just over the fence from a cemetery. It’s great, as noted the neighbors are quiet and keep to themselves.
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