Re: Are we really better off????

Posted by Billy NY on September 25, 2015 at 06:53:51 from (104.228.35.235):

In Reply to: Are we really better off???? posted by JD Seller on September 25, 2015 at 05:37:25:

I don't think its an even trade off, from the era when things were like you said, I remember all the small business's and such, malls, department stores, were not common, but we had Sears, Montgomery Wards and K-Mart, spread out. I remember the local grocery stores in old buildings, and that you had to go to a bunch of different places for things. Those were all good places, supply houses were well stocked, they'd have what you need, worst was an off hours crisis when you needed something, so in some ways we benefit, but its not even by any means.

I've seen a farm field turn into a grocery store, adjacent to what was one of 13 farms on the road beyond it(this town did not have a grocery store then). Saw that store eventually close, another built nearby, leaving the older one abandoned, though it was used by the Salvation Army for a brief time, it was abandoned for years, then converted into a car dealership. Walmart was built in another adjacent farm field, the entire farm demolished, silos on the horizon gone. Saw our 2 lane state road connected to the highway miles away, progress.... traffic reminds me of Long Island, on a weekend, steady stream both ways, hard to get out on the road, you might wait 10 minutes.

The whole era of foreign manufacture, being prevalent, is definitely not something I would think is better by any means. Its hard to grasp all of what took place and what transpired taking us to the current times. They've muddied the waters quite a bit.

We now have quite the diverse ethnicity locally, go to the walmarts down the road, and you'll encounter people from many foreign areas around the world, we've gone from rural to suburbia in a sense, though this towns population density is not like surrounding areas, they are starting to spend money on much higher cost developing, seeing they have saturated all the easier areas.

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