OT: What Has The World Come To

tesco samoa · #1 April 6th, 2004, 03:40 AM

PVK that would be hard in many parts of NA.

Most of Canada is designed around the car.

I am lucky that I have only a 20 KM communite so I can ride my bike ( I wear a helmet

)

But I know of one guy who has a 180 KM communite

PvK · #2 April 6th, 2004, 05:39 AM

Heh. Sure, but that's not exactly suburban sprawl. Living in the countryside is one thing. Replacing the countryside with non-stop pedestrian-hostile automobile-dependant clone housing is another.

I think downtown Vancouver B.C. is very nice, though the huge eastward expanse - Burnaby and (egad) Metrotown

are pretty nightmarish.

Mainly I was thinking of what has happened around Seattle (where I grew up, and am currently) in the Last 20 years. The population multiplied, and many forests have been sacrificed to "developments" with attrocious modern clone housing in cul-de-sacs and strip malls - communities for automobiles. Dreadful.

PvK

Atrocities · #3 April 6th, 2004, 05:43 AM

Ok, how to word this.

Why is it that people who simply leave there children in their locked Mini van to watch scooby doo would warrent being arrested, sighted for child neglect and abandonment, have their children taken from them, and their lives virtually destroyed while nothing is said or done about the parenting skill of people like the Ozborne's? (sp)

[ April 06, 2004, 04:44: Message edited by: Atrocities ]