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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  6/17/2007 11:40 AM,Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:


> > I always think that maybe they are having fun. An odd thought but it could
> > be.
> >
> Oh, I've known people who gardened just for the fun of it ... but they said
> so.
> Gardening for fun?  Fine, admit so to oneself and go on.  But I think part of
> the "fun" is the illusion that they are saving money and/or saving the
> environment.

So? It's their fun & their illusion I really don't see my place in 
their business except to gossip.


> >
> > A city?
> >
> >
>
> I'd say anything but suburbs.  In a properly done city one could put the
> shopping basket over one's arm and go to the very, very, very local 
> market and get
> supper.

People do that today.

> Suburbs don't work that way.  They are a function of personal transportation.
>  One is far more dependent on a car in the suburbs than in the city or
> country.

True enough today for the most part.


> That is, so long as we are not mixing metaphors.  You can't live in the
> country and depend on a cash job 80 miles away and do without using a lot of
> transportation fuel.

Anybody out there in internet land on the homestead list work over 
the internet? Live a good ways from the job and still do it without 
lot's of transportation fuel?
(Not me).



> Just as most people who live in the country are not sustainable, too most
> people in hte city aren't either.  But both could be.  The suburbs cannot.

"Cannot" is too final a word. There is too much 'gray' in my world 
for that word to work.


> If I slowed down to 20 mph, it would
> take an hour.   I could do that.  In fact sometimes I find myself 
> driving slower
> and slower anymore.  Cars will tailgate and impatiently whip around me and
> careen off into the distance.

That's just being an asshole.... <shrug>, I have days like that too.
To each his own.




Rob
becida AT comcast.net