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You're entitled to your rant. One of the reasons I want to leave my current area (60 miles N. of NYC) is that particularly after 9/11 we had a huge influx of NY City and NJersey people who came up here to build their McMansions and ruin our country way of life. Following the McMansions are too many stores, too much traffic and worst of all an attitude that only you can understand if you've lived around NYCity - no time to be cordial, have decent manners, and think of people other than yourself. It seems to me the farther away you live from huge metropolitan areas, the nicer people get. Anyway, that's why I asked my original question. I am not planning to live in a gated community - what's that all about anyway? To segregate myself? It's an elitist way of living. No, I want a year round community to get involved in - volunteer work and being a good citizen with lots of friends who love the outdoors. Other than a grocery story and a library I don't need much of anything else - well, maybe a car mechanic and a handyman! And I certainly don't want a McMansion. A small house with a little privacy is fine with me. Hopefully, I'll have wild critters in my backyard - much as I did before all these housing developments drove away the wildlife - and what they didn't drive away can be found as roadkill with all those oversized SUVs zooming along these country roads with no thought other than to go nowhere as fast as possible.
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