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Re: Local family farms- Depressing-LONG
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Posted by in-too-deep on August 10, 2006 at 20:00:22 from (152.163.100.74):
In Reply to: Local family farms- Depressing-LONG posted by Dave from MN on August 10, 2006 at 19:41:57:
Well, I haven't been as close to this monstrocity as some have, but I still feel it. Tonight I was out driving and going along Rte. 30 in northern IL. Ya know, the one that the garbage trucks travel on to dunmp the city's garbage out here? Well, near a town called Waterman they just built 40 or so huge houses, all in rows, probably of 4 different floor plans. And you know who buys them? People from the suburbs that want to live "out in the country." Little do they know, if they keep buying and building it won't be "out in the country" anymore. I understand progress, and I understand that people need a roof over their heads...but to destroy good land that was farmed for 150 years that made this country what it is, is despicable.
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