Posted by jdemaris on November 15, 2007 at 06:47:21 from (69.67.229.37):
In Reply to: Re: GAS/DIESEL prices posted by Spook on November 14, 2007 at 18:36:47:
Well - good! I hope it drives some people out, lowers property values, development drops off, and things slow down a bit. In fact, I hope the Interstate falls apart and weeds take it over.
I've lived in three, very rural areas in my life - and the same things happens, over and over. The common mindset used to be - if you moved to a rural area it was a compromise. You got to live somewhere nice but made less money and accepted it. Now - few people I meet see it that way. They move to a rural area and instantly try to change it until it becomes like the place they left previously. I'm in central New York - and been here since 1979. When I moved here, I had three kids and took a job at 1/3 the pay that I had been making near New York City some 200 miles away. I drove 15 miles to work to a Deere tractor dealership. Also started my own tractor shop at home. I met others that migrated here and commuted over 150 miles a day to make more money. That never made sense to me - they might has well just stayed where they worked. Had one neighbor that commuted 400 miles a day by small commuter plane to NYC. I figured it was worth making a lot less money to live in a beautiful area to raise my kids - and more-or-less, do what I wanted - in regard to land-use, hunting, trapping, tractor collecting, etc. I also bought a house and land here for $12,000 - and houses from where I left were all over $100,000 at the same time. Now, this place is getting ruined by new people and development and we now have "right to farm" laws. If you had told a farmer here 30 years ago that we might need such laws, they'd figure you were nuts. So - yeah - I'd love to see my property value go from $300,000 down to $75,000 - if I was staying here. Close half the businesses, - heck - close our monster of a school too. I still know a few people that attended one-room schoolhouses in this area - and their level of education is better than many people I meet today. I also know a lot of home-schooled kids, including Amish, and am constantly impressed.
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