Posted on 06/26/2023 7:43:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber
I have no desire to live in a blue beehive city.
Green Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin’ is the life for me.
Land spreadin’ out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.
I will not become a hivedweller in a democrat hellhole city.
Idiot leftist:
New York is where I’d rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
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Sign me up.
BTTT
In my personal life and professional career I've come to look at the dynamics of "home ownership" and "suburbia" very differently than they are portrayed in articles like this. Two general points that guide me on this:
1. If you live in a suburban area and work in a nearby city, don't consider yourself a "suburbanite." You are an urban resident in almost every respect, and your socioeconomic indicators cannot be detached from your ties to the city.
2. Related to the previous point ... If you don't live and work in the same municipal or county jurisdiction, I'd say a lot of the characteristics of "home ownership" go right out the window. In fact, I'd suggest that the separation of home and work locations has been one of the most destructive features of suburbanization in the post-WW2 era.
Your argument fails because you don't consider the various levels of urbanization, e.g., village, town, city, Metropolis, Megalopolis. Also, socioeconomic indicators aren't necessarily bound by where you live. Ever hear of remote working?
“I have no desire to live in a blue beehive city!
The Left is attacking middle class life across the world, but we see the war on single family homes and on the suburbs happening most directly in America and across the Anglosphere.
The reasons for this middle class life lies in our uniqueness in choosing this form of living. But it’s all about culture, and not about being “Anglo”. Immigrants to America eagerly fold into this lifestyle choice. I live in a suburban community 25 miles outside of Los Angeles where, while non-Hispanic whites constitute the largest group (45%), they are not a majority. There are large minorities of Hispanics and Asians, many of them first generation immigrants. They all opt to share in the American Dream of home ownership. And before this becomes a racial conversation, which today is where the Left takes everything, let’s be clear: this has nothing to do with “white flight.”...
The Left is attacking middle class life across the world, but we see the war on single family homes and on the suburbs happening most directly in America and across the Anglosphere. The reasons for this middle class life lies in our uniqueness in choosing this form of living. But it’s all about culture, and not about being “Anglo”. Immigrants to America eagerly fold into this lifestyle choice. I live in a suburban community 25 miles outside of Los Angeles where, while non-Hispanic whites constitute the largest group (45%), they are not a majority. There are large minorities of Hispanics and Asians, many of them first generation immigrants. They all opt to share in the American Dream of home ownership. And before this becomes a racial conversation, which today is where the Left takes everything, let’s be clear: this has nothing to do with “white flight.”...
One of our relatives in a good size MW metro area has seen her 15-20 minute commute each way go to 30+ minutes and worse on Fridays and Mondays. This has resulted in traffic jams across town.
She and her husband are from basically 2 large families, and many of them are looking at moving back into a rural area and working from home or a shop or from their homes.
The area, they are looking at has a bank, one restaurant/small grocery store/combo filling/service station and a lot of vacant stores on the little main street.
Good medical care is about 60-90 minutes away or less.
They can get home or office delivery from Amazon/Costco on most items from food to whatever.
I was on my lawn tractor from around 6:30 PM until dark last night mowing everything. It was too hot/humid prior to that. I had just mowed most of the property last Wednesday.
Sometimes a condo starts to sound appealing.
Those of us born in the 15 years after WWII had, what I believe was, the best environment, communities and society. It was safe for children and adults and the opportunity and variety of open avenues of life were outstanding. The drug culture was ten years in the future, the progressives were in hiding as the communists they were.
Some areas had some cancerous segregationist elements still at work but the areas were know and shrinking.
Education was affordable but not confining — you could achieve a lot without a college degree but many learning paths were open to the tech and science outbreak to come.
I can relate, but I would have it no other way.
This is an announcement from Genetic Control:
‘It is my sad duty to inform you of a four foot restriction on
Humanoid height’
I hear the directors of Genetic Control have been buying all the
Properties that have recently been sold, taking risks oh so bold
It’s said now that people will be shorter in height
They can fit twice as many in the same building site
They say it’s alright
Beginning with the tenants of the town of Harlow
In the interest of humanity, they’ve been told they must go
Told they must go-go-go-go
Genesis - Get ‘Em Out By Friday
Of course, “15 minute cities” have no provision for churches, especially not Orthodox parishes and dioceses!
The whole “15 minute city” movement is EVIL, and it has little to do with “climate”!!
We live in Chicago exurbia in a neighborhood of 1 + acre lots. Anything with less space and I’d be claustrophobic. Takes about 1:45 minutes to mow with lawn tractor.
I understand. It just gets old when I am mowing every four days and it is still to tall.
Plus, I have not fertilized since early April.
Keep in mind, I CREATED this monster.
I bought a 100% wooded 12 acre lot eleven years ago. Mature 100+ year old timber within 15’ of the house built in 1972. So, I cleared every tree within 40’ of the house and about 2 acres. We selectively cut the remaining 10 acres.
So, I went from having no lawn at all to now about 2 acres.
I have a 6’ finish mower for my Massey Ferguson compact cab tractor.
So, I can mow the 1 acre field with that. The area around the house is done with the 1999 John Deere LX255 42” rider.
The 1999 JD is on its last leg. Welded the deck three times. Head gasket once. The hood is cracked/broken. Front bumper is gone. Seat has a cover on it. I am on my third set of blades. Replaced the main drive deck bearing for the second time this winter. But, it sill runs.
I really need an Exmark or Skag 52” commercial mower.
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