The Rant of an Angry Country Person
Disclaimer: I am in a very foul mood, so this may just ramble.
Subdivisions - they're everywhere. As I was cutting the lawn today, I was looking at all of the fields and trees around me and wondering how long it would be before they were all leveled and turned into more houses. Just look at New Prairie Knolls down the street. What I wouldn't give to see the Black Plague confine itself to the streets of that place, or to make the whole place so radioactive that it can't be touched for 1000 Julys (of course, the radioactivity would have to strictly confine itself to the boundries of the subdivision; there are several houses around it that were already there long before it was built). A couple of years ago, there was talk of a subdivision going in right across the street from me. Luckily, the cell tower people apparently offered more for that smaller piece of land or the idea just plain tanked.
That's the beauty of the West. Sure there are housing developments out there, but it's awfully hard to put 30 houses on the side of a cliff, or at the bottom of a ravine that is prone to flash flooding, or on the very top of a mountain. Even around here there are places that no one would ever want to put a development, for different reasons. All you have to do is find a dirt road that goes for 20 miles or so without running into any civilization and the place you end up is a place that very few people will follow you. Maybe it's an inconvenience to live So Far Away from other people; thank goodness most people are lazy like that.*
Why do people always have to live in groups? Even families seem too big for a single dwelling sometimes, but a few dozen "happy" little homes looks more like a cancerous eyesore on a once green tract of land. It's not like there are dinosaurs that will eat your dogs or marauders that will come in the night and steal your children. I'll take a tree over a neighbor any day.
Yes, the Rockies are incredibly beautiful and dangerously exciting. But that's not the only reason I've always wanted to move out there. There's the distinction of being the first person in my family to really move out of this area - starting a new generation of Holewczynskis on the other side of the continent. It's also about not being able to walk to a neighbor's house in less than 30 minutes. It's about needing to take at least 4 side roads to get to the nearest highway.
Lately I've been thinking that maybe I don't need the Rockies to accomplish the majority of those dreams. That's not really an immediate concern though, so I won't worry about that just yet. It's always there in the back of my mind though...
* - Not to say that I'm not lazy. There are just certain inconveniences that I would be more than willing to put up with to get away from people.
Disclaimer: I am in a very foul mood, so this may just ramble.
Subdivisions - they're everywhere. As I was cutting the lawn today, I was looking at all of the fields and trees around me and wondering how long it would be before they were all leveled and turned into more houses. Just look at New Prairie Knolls down the street. What I wouldn't give to see the Black Plague confine itself to the streets of that place, or to make the whole place so radioactive that it can't be touched for 1000 Julys (of course, the radioactivity would have to strictly confine itself to the boundries of the subdivision; there are several houses around it that were already there long before it was built). A couple of years ago, there was talk of a subdivision going in right across the street from me. Luckily, the cell tower people apparently offered more for that smaller piece of land or the idea just plain tanked.
That's the beauty of the West. Sure there are housing developments out there, but it's awfully hard to put 30 houses on the side of a cliff, or at the bottom of a ravine that is prone to flash flooding, or on the very top of a mountain. Even around here there are places that no one would ever want to put a development, for different reasons. All you have to do is find a dirt road that goes for 20 miles or so without running into any civilization and the place you end up is a place that very few people will follow you. Maybe it's an inconvenience to live So Far Away from other people; thank goodness most people are lazy like that.*
Why do people always have to live in groups? Even families seem too big for a single dwelling sometimes, but a few dozen "happy" little homes looks more like a cancerous eyesore on a once green tract of land. It's not like there are dinosaurs that will eat your dogs or marauders that will come in the night and steal your children. I'll take a tree over a neighbor any day.
Yes, the Rockies are incredibly beautiful and dangerously exciting. But that's not the only reason I've always wanted to move out there. There's the distinction of being the first person in my family to really move out of this area - starting a new generation of Holewczynskis on the other side of the continent. It's also about not being able to walk to a neighbor's house in less than 30 minutes. It's about needing to take at least 4 side roads to get to the nearest highway.
Lately I've been thinking that maybe I don't need the Rockies to accomplish the majority of those dreams. That's not really an immediate concern though, so I won't worry about that just yet. It's always there in the back of my mind though...
* - Not to say that I'm not lazy. There are just certain inconveniences that I would be more than willing to put up with to get away from people.
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