Get the shotgun Nellie - they are a' comin'
Well isn't this just a wonderful development...
From the
New York Times comes this little story about the next "big thing" in housing.
New Era Foreseen for Smalltown, U.S.A.
The next wave of development beyond suburbia will focus on small towns whose residents will live more modestly and perceive themselves as the protectors, rather than the exploiters, of their environment, according to an economic and urban development scholar.
The scholar, Dr. Jack Lessinger, has forecast this new era of development and named it "penturbia," to reflect that it would be the fifth stage development in the grouping of the nation's population - marking a resurgence of the rural renaissance that started a decade ago then stalled.
Dr. Lessinger, professor emeritus of real-estate and urban development at the University of Washington in Seattle, said two areas of New York State - Greene and Sullivan Counties in the Catskills - are among those on the verge of this new development.
"The country is now entering a population migration that will bring a new period of prosperity to small towns and their surrounding areas," he said. "Look for penturbia beyond the normal commuting range of the nation's central cities. It is small cities and towns, new subdivisions, homesteads, industrial and commercial districts interspersed with farms, forests, rivers and lakes."
Just what we need -- a bunch of clueless ninnies buying up land and raising the prices so much that the children of the people who have lived here cannot afford places of their own. They move in and then try to change the laws to suit their lifestyle.
Preservation? Excuse me but logging is a big business out here and it is a renewable resource.
Don't like that tractor running at 6:00AM? Excuse me but it's harvest time, the crops need to get in before it rains. If you didn't like the noise and the smells, you should not have moved in next to a farm...
Sheesh...
Posted by DaveH at April 11, 2008 10:36 AM