ClassicCar

Yep, modern sub divisions to me represent what's wrong with our country. In the mid-west they're taking the third most productive farm land on planet earth and planting houses in those fields. They're cheap, pre-fab, all look the same and attract people looking to escape urban sprawl (in some cases minorities) and buy a house they can actually afford. The problem is they're creating the exact same urban sprawl they're trying to escape. Their poorly raised kids are out there with nothing to do just get into trouble. Then they smack their heads and say "omg there's no police, fire, adequate capacity schools, or infastructure out here?!" They raise the taxes killing the affordability that attracted people there, the developer is out of the picture made his money and left. Most of the sub-divisions have a bunch of knit-picky rules about what you can do on your own property killing the advantage of living out in the rural areas. The worst ones are gated communities which are a step back to the walled off cities of the dark ages. The cherry on top is it's all done without any intelligent plan. They move next to a junkyard or airport and then have the nerve to complain about the noise or the "eyesores" and wonder why the property was cheap in the first place.

I'll take a junkyard over that any day!

America has gone down the $#itter. It's a joke of its former self. I hope I can move back to my ancestral Germany, the sooner the better.