Comments on: Not Just City Comforts http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2007/05/15/not-just-city-comforts Asking the Stupid Questions since 1971 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:10:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Will http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2007/05/15/not-just-city-comforts#comment-25875 Will Fri, 18 May 2007 13:10:06 +0000 http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2007/05/15/not-just-city-comforts#comment-25875 Pretty much. There're some who believe that because they've moved to the suburban fringe that they are in the country, and there are others who think that because they moved to the country first, that it hasn't become the suburban fringe, so their ideas of how to preserve the rural character consist mainly of ensuring that it continues to sprawl. Apparently part of the rural charm is three-acre residential lots, no sewers, no sidewalks in town, and being required to drive between adjacent shopping plazas. Turning a collection of shopping plazas into a village doesn't mean that we'll all of a sudden be Poughkeepsie. Pretty much. There’re some who believe that because they’ve moved to the suburban fringe that they are in the country, and there are others who think that because they moved to the country first, that it hasn’t become the suburban fringe, so their ideas of how to preserve the rural character consist mainly of ensuring that it continues to sprawl.

Apparently part of the rural charm is three-acre residential lots, no sewers, no sidewalks in town, and being required to drive between adjacent shopping plazas.

Turning a collection of shopping plazas into a village doesn’t mean that we’ll all of a sudden be Poughkeepsie.

]]> By: David Sucher http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2007/05/15/not-just-city-comforts#comment-25853 David Sucher Thu, 17 May 2007 14:58:42 +0000 http://www.coxesroost.net/journal/2007/05/15/not-just-city-comforts#comment-25853 Thanks! :) And what brought this on? Did some faux country folks start twanging about they "hate cities?" What I find disheartending is that there are so many younger people -- like maybe under 40 -- who grew up suburbs and simply do not know what a city is. Some have literally never been in one except to drive through. They think it's all slums and minorities and so forth; I run into a lot of such folks on construction sites. Not real country folk of course as they live in the suburban fringe; But that's what they fancy themselves to be — rural. Of course rural people know what a town is like i.e. a real walkable old-fashioned town. It's ironic, eh? Thanks! :) And what brought this on? Did some faux country folks start twanging about they “hate cities?”

What I find disheartending is that there are so many younger people — like maybe under 40 — who grew up suburbs and simply do not know what a city is. Some have literally never been in one except to drive through. They think it’s all slums and minorities and so forth; I run into a lot of such folks on construction sites. Not real country folk of course as they live in the suburban fringe; But that’s what they fancy themselves to be — rural. Of course rural people know what a town is like i.e. a real walkable old-fashioned town. It’s ironic, eh?

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