[hedgetrimmer]

Sprawl is caused by the obscene housing prices in California metro areas is caused by government controlling the housing market through smart growth, shifting the cost of buying "affordable housing" to the price an individual pays for his home, so-called growth limits that force infill development and uncomfortable densities in industrial and business districts, the list goes on and on.

Go ahead and move to texas, but if your town ever gets a "visioning team" to tell you how to "preserve your open space" you will lose your town too.

[calcowgirl]

>>Go ahead and move to texas...

If you click on keyword "tollroads" on this thread, you will note Texas has been having some tollroad fights of their own.