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[starfrosting]

It's so gray and foggy here today, it just rolls thick over everything rising off of fields and roads. What does it take to make (allow) people to see the land as sacred? More traffic lights here than ever and if I see one more "___ Acres For Sale" sign I'm gonna puke.

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[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

And I never even got to hear stories of what happened after!

[strauss.livejournal.com]

dude, where are you from again? i feel the same way re ___ acres for sale signs. Every time I go home there are fewer fields. When my parents moved to wexford, pa, in 1982, it was totally rural. Even the one building I remember from when I was really little didn't exist back then; there was a small shack-like farmer's market instead (according to my dad). Now it's a strip of strip malls and exurban awfullness. Lots of car dealerships and fast food places. Not fun, and just really sad. The value of my parents' home has increased only about $50K in the past 26 years---that's a problem, and has to do with how the area used to be beautiful and now isn't. I love Pittsburgh, but the exurbs are awful. The town where my friend Beth grew up is still rural, just a few miles away. So strange how that happens. It will prbably change, too, though--I saw for sale signs on some farms.

[starfrosting.livejournal.com]

I just woke up and read this and now I kind of want to die. I'm from Pipersville, 20 minutes north of New Hope in Upper Bucks. It's the kind of rural that I describe as, if you want to go into a town you can drive 10 minutes and cross the river into Frenchtown, or you can get on 611 10 minutes away and drive longer til you get to Doylestown. In other words, while there's (increasing) spots of development (mostly housing), you still have to go a little away from where I live to get to shopping centers, the nth gas station or bank.

Right where I live what kills me is the housing build-up. I drove to my old work to visit my chef and on the way there I saw these signs, C1 C2 etc in the woods by the old quarry. So when I was talking to Val I asked him, with dread in my heart, what those signs are about. Turns out, the guy who owns the property is getting fill from the quarry to fill in the dips and falls of the woods there so he can build a motherfucking housing development-- which explains why I'd seen (but tried not to believe) a sign that announced "The Estates at Ringing Rocks":
http://www.milfordbuilders.com/RingingRocks/index.html

I feel really powerless about all of it too because I don't know how to stop it besides dreams of property destruction.