Dan Abel wrote:
>
> In article >,
> "modom (palindrome guy)" > wrote:
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> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:14:45 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
>
> > >I guess. Freeze them? And I'm curious, what is a standard lot in Texas?
>
> >
> > I believe a standard lot here in Cow Hill is around 75 by 150 feet.
>
> Standard lots do vary a lot. When we bought our house, it was 60' X
> 100'. Ours was 60' X 90'.
>
> We got a cheap price, so I didn't feel cheated.
>
> I worked in San Francisco for a year. The houses I saw all had 25' lot
> widths. If you wanted to go in the back yard, you had to go through the
> house. There was no other access. I talked to a fireman there. They
> had to be very aggressive about putting out fires. You couldn't just
> let it burn. It wasn't one house, it was the whole block.

a 25' wide "lot" is not a lot, it's a speck.