We live nowhere

I've previously written about how I was fascinated by the concept and somewhat failed execution around the Horizon West planning area here in Orange County. I say somewhat failed because clearly the county had to make some compromises around urban design standards, and the odds are not very good for the "town center" concept ever really happening here, unfortunately. Walking distance to local retail would be awesome (it was my favorite thing about living where we did in Snoqualmie), but I suspect it just won't happen.

In any case, when people ask me where we live, or where we're building a house, it occurs to me that technically it's not in a city. Sure, right now we live in a zip code that belongs to Windermere, and the proximity is such that it makes sense, but technically we live in an unincorporated part of the county. This gets even more weird at the new house, where we have a Winter Garden address. It's also unincorporated, but more importantly, it's nowhere near Winter Garden.

It's very strange, especially for someone who grew up in the Western Reserve. The land was divided up into 5-by-5 mile townships, and later cities incorporated on top of them and annexed pieces together. But the point is that you always lived in something more specific than a county.