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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

James, would you consider now a good time to buy remote land, thinking ahead 
that when gasoline is back  down to $2.00 a gallon, the land will cost more?  
bobford


--- On Tue, 6/24/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] County population loss/gain map
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 11:16 AM
> The map doesn't tell half the story.  My county is shown
> in white, meaning it 
> did not lose population.  But there are two largish (40K)
> and two smallish 
> (15K) cities in the county.  The rural population has been
> steadily shifting 
> from the remote areas to right around the cities.
> 
> Also these demographics only go through 2006, that is, when
> gasoline was 
> still around $2/gal.  The ability to maintain an urban-like
> lifestyle in the 
> remote corners of the rural counties has become sharply
> more difficult of late.   </HTML>
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