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To: LomanBill

Developers are so damn greedy...Ya look at these new homes they build, and they are literally so close to each other, they’re leaning on each other...It’s really disgusting...


56 posted on 05/02/2010 6:30:54 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2
[ look at these new homes they build, and they are literally so close to each other, they’re leaning on each other...It’s really disgusting...]
 
Look at the so-called "communities" they build.
 
Nothing like the blue collar North Denver neighborhood I grew up in 40+ years ago.
 
The elderly man whose father built, with his own hands, the modest house I grew up in still lived 3 doors away.  He lived there his entire life.  The neighborhood was filled with folks like him - and they all knew each other and my parents...
 
...and about any mischievous antics me or my school chums might be up to.  Ehem.
 
I made my spending money shoveling their walks/driveways in the winter and mowing their lawns in the summer.  Nobody had to be told by the government to take care of each other, we just did it - I guess because we'd all been raised that it was simply the right thing to do.    That, was a "community".
 
But that, unfortunately, does not seem to exist anymore.  And we live with the consequences we allow developers and politicians to shove down our throats... or NOT.

59 posted on 05/03/2010 7:27:42 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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