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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: MSI who wrote (4602)	8/22/2002 5:23:05 PM
From: David Jones	Read Replies (3) of 306849

...oxy-acetylene balloons... Roman candle wars and stamping out small fires. Got my ass chewed out more than once but funnn. Much of our present situation [imo] can be traced on how we build. The sub-division has separated us. No longer the mixed neighborhood but everyone living in a demographically similar home with need of a car to pick up a gallon of milk. With similar people living in similar areas/sub-divisions you get a some what predictable thinking/voting. I think of it a circling the wagons. You drive to your sub-division in your personal transportation device open the garage with press of a button and your gone. Without the children running about the neighborhood one could go a lifetime and never have a word with the guy three houses down. The order of things was once less regulated and building was to order as need and ownership. Ya it produced some poor situations but also the good. Housing that produced foot traffic and porches propagates a wave of the hand or a 'how are you/howdy'. The key word bantered about now is Neo- traditional. There's sites devoted to the understanding and examples scattered about. Communities here and there are warming to the concept. I don't think it's too late but it will take some time for the current sub-division to recycle. You see a sign of it today with over sized remodels and small business in the current older sub-divisions. In time the mix comes about. To trick is to find one that works now and buy in. One doesn't wish to drive hours a work day and find you forgot to pick up milk on the way home and to have pop back in the car. Much better to have a mixed neighborhood of hand wavers and howdys to send your middle aged child up a block or three for that milk. To find the same safety feeling one gets from the sub-division where the out of place is your first clue. But in a closer congenial atmosphere. I must be dreaming!

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