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Old 05-30-2012, 09:19 AM
 
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NYC is pretty flat, too. Interesting how seldom this fact is recalled... I could list other equally flat cities (not just in the US but worldwide) that no one ever thinks of as 'flat' but do, indeed, happen to be very 'flat,' but this topic is too annoying to me to bother with anymore.
Parts fo NY are flat but other parts are very hilly. If you ever cross the GW Bridge into upper Manhattan, you would understand.
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Old 05-30-2012, 09:21 AM
 
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Which is 1 reason why I am really happy to see the sprawl to the west of me halted at least temporarily. In a world with a rapidly increasing population, to destroy some of the world's best farm land for the sake of subdivisions full of cheap vinyl-sided houses is disgusting to me.
I agree, I've read that we have some of the most fertile farm land in the world. Some of it now has vinyl house farms instead of corn, soybeans etc.
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Which is 1 reason why I am really happy to see the sprawl to the west of me halted at least temporarily. In a world with a rapidly increasing population, to destroy some of the world's best farm land for the sake of subdivisions full of cheap vinyl-sided houses is disgusting to me.
As if your house doesn't sit on what used to be some of the most fertile soil on Earth.
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Old 05-30-2012, 10:39 AM
 
Location: Wheaton, Illinois
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Vinyl siding is inexpensive and functional, good stuff. Just don't put your BBQ grill too close to it, I warped a spot on my house that way.
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:25 AM
 
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I agree, I've read that we have some of the most fertile farm land in the world. Some of it now has vinyl house farms instead of corn, soybeans etc.
Unfortunately, that's one "crop" that will never be harvested...
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:31 AM
 
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Unfortunately, that's one "crop" that will never be harvested...
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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As if your house doesn't sit on what used to be some of the most fertile soil on Earth.
Yes, but my house was built in 1880!
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Parts fo NY are flat but other parts are very hilly. If you ever cross the GW Bridge into upper Manhattan, you would understand.
and let's not forget that Chicago's "flat" came free; NYC had to pay plenty for the flatness imposed by the grid from the edge of old New Amsterdam clear up through the northern end of Central Park. a lot of clearing and flattening had to be done here; sure this hunk of real estate did not compare with the hilliness of manhattan's northern third, but it still had hills.
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Old 05-30-2012, 11:49 AM
 
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Yes, but my house was built in 1880!
You get a pass!
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Old 05-30-2012, 01:32 PM
 
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My previous post seemed to have "disappeared" , but KnitGirl's house was probably a farmhouse back in 1880..unless it's right in downtown Elgin..
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