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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

James,
Do you (are anyone else here) dislike compact cities
any less than sprawling cities.  
I was the quintessential country boy wanting to go the
city.  I should have gone to Chicago, but I got
settled in Phx before I realized there was no city
there, only very large suburbs.
I still like cities that are compact enough to live a
normal life without a car.  But by now I am glad to
return to the country.  
Though I'm disappointed that this county at least is
filling with commuters who don't farm, so becoming
more of as suburb with 20-60 acre lots and shopping
centers every 50 miles.

Earlier discussion about feeling at home.  I do
believe Missouri is a good place to feel at home in,
though I am biased by the fact that my family have
been in this county since the 1830s and I was born in
the same house my grandmother was.  It was a farm that
had been in the family for 3 generations then,
extended to over 100 years before strip mines forced
them to trade for a similar place on the other side of
the creek.

Back home after 40 years stuck in the desert.

Van Dell


--- Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> 
> 
> > If I was FORCED to choose between the south's
> humid summers and the 
> > crowds,
> 
> Crowds?   (I know you qualified this with 'Atlanta'
> later in the post ... 
> but)  Crowds?
> 
> I've been to SoCal and I've lived most of my life in
> the South (American by 
> birth and Southern by the grace of God sort of
> thing) and I've got to say that 
> from what I've seen California's got it all over us
> as far as crowds are 
> concerned.  
> 
> No ... wait .... I was just kidding.  It IS crowded
> here.  Elbow to elbow, 
> spaces are so small you have to go outside to change
> your mind .... yeah, that's 
> the ticket ... crowded.  CROWDED!    Stay in
> California,  don't come to the 
> South!!
> 
> James
> 
> 
> P.S.  I lived for a number of years in Atlanta and
> its problems are not that 
> it is in the South, but rather that it is a huge
> sprawling city.  I haven't 
> yet met a huge sprawling city anywhere that I liked,
> or even tolerated.   </HTML>
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