re: Airline Park neighborhood in Metry

No need to worry about crime or anything, it's a safe middle/working class neighborhood. Do need to worry about the subsidence as others have mentioned. I did not know what I was getting into when I bought a house near here. Holy frick it's a pain in the arse to maintain. People seem to take one of two routes:

- pump mud under house and spread dirt in the yard every few years to keep up with sinkage, re pave sidewalks and driveways as they crack and fall into the ground, etc

or

- completely ignore it for decades to the point where you can quite literally crawl underneath the concrete slab and can see the pilings under the house from the street.


The houses do not sink with the ground. (at least not most.) They sit on pilings that seem to do a good enough job keeping everything mostly level and in place. The issue is, this sinkage problem is so specific to our area that it's really hard to find actual information about how to combat it, etc. It's all just opinions and what you heard from a guy.

I would not do it again. I'd buy a smaller house in a neighborhood that doesn't sink vs. my current house any day.