I'm an old coot now and would rather enjoy the lake than do yard work. The old house sat on .35 acres, lot of lawn for the kids to play on. I had a huge garden that I thoroughly enjoyed working, plus a small orchard with cherry, peach, apricot, and pear trees. We taught the kids how to garden. It was great then but the kids are gone and I can’t keep up with a yard that size anymore. We moved to Daybreak almost a year ago.

With the lake, trails, all the parks, and activities, I’ve wondered where a development like this was when I was raising kids. I think that this is a great place to raise children. It is a good place for empty nesters as well. My wife and I are enjoying frequent long walks with our old yellow dog, something that we seldom did at the old place. We also like being able to take the canoe to a lake and paddle around for an hour or two without using a car or truck to transport the canoe.

Before we built here, the real estate agents and Daybreak personnel did sell us the higher quality neighbor story. You know, the garbage cans stored so as not to be seen from the street and prompt removal after pickup, no boat or RVs stored on the street for extended periods, yards kept up, etc. Well, that was a great idea but isn’t enforced. That has been our biggest disappointment about living here. Some of the house styles yield inconvenient parking so some areas have 24/7 street parking, even when it snows. Given the narrow streets, that has proven to be a problem. We do wish that the streets were wider.

Like anywhere else, there are advantages and disadvantages. In our case, we are happier here than where we moved in from.