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[Mominohio]

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@cactusgal wrote:

@shortbreadlover You got that right, they want to build more meetinghouses. Not like there isn't one on every corner already. And I'm being good by not saying who I am referring to 

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This is a slam against a particular religion, and I don't think it has a place in this conversation.

[Mominohio]

The thing about land is that they aren't making any more if it. Except for global changes (like volcanoes creating more, or oceans rising and falling) what we have is what we have. 

The more the population increases, the closer we are all going to be living to one another. 

The more we learn to modify the climates (make the deserts lush) the more land will be taken up with housing for people and development in general. 

What is frustrating is when you buy as big a piece of land as you can afford/maintain, and the area around you is populated just in the amount you wish for your environment, then others start to sell out and develop. What was once your perfect neighborhood, or your ideal piece of the country no longer is. And many people can't always afford to move on, because the offers to buy what you have aren't always as great as you will need to move on to something equivalent to what you have, or what you would want.

[Sweetbay magnolia]

I don't know. 

Some friends down the way told me they wanted to build a "pole barn" for worship.  Great, I thought.  How joyful.  Really, I like that!

After they bought a bunch of land and tried to sell the established area out by agreeing to conditions to make it favorable to the "pole barn", regardless of the fact that meant jamming houses down my throat, the project became a huge "meetinghouse" with about 10X the traffic we would ordinarily see, if it materialized.

It's all been deferred, but this is no "pole barn".