tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post2895220934577853969..comments2023-10-30T04:22:31.056-07:00Comments on Blue Wren: Interesting timesWrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09285813981508179421noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post-81659751109062295382008-09-20T21:14:00.000-07:002008-09-20T21:14:00.000-07:00I'm not sure how I got here but I like what I see....I'm not sure how I got here but I like what I see. Based on what you have said I think I probably lived somewhere near you back seven or so years ago. Part of the reason I left was I couldn't stand seeing beautiful countryside gobbled up by development. (No wild turkey pun intended) Like you said the homes were so out of place and so obnoxious. The city has it's problems but it's done expanding. That's been better for someone like me. Anyway it's nice to see a thoughtful site like yours. jcatjcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05256045541235868576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post-28954682697461602252008-09-19T08:55:00.000-07:002008-09-19T08:55:00.000-07:00Very well put. I have a cousin in Cape Coral, Flo...Very well put. I have a cousin in Cape Coral, Florida, whose husband was a home inspector for a decade, and she became a realtor back around 2003, at the height of the boom. <BR/><BR/>Now he's a trucker, and she's working at Michael's. She said home values there dropped something like 30-40%, and parts of the area look like ghost towns, with 3,000 square foot empty homes being overtaken by weeds.<BR/><BR/>I work for a town of about 30,000 people, and we have over 100 homes in foreclosure in our town. Our community development department just hired a landscaper to maintain the lawns and hedges of abandoned properties to keep things from looking run down.<BR/><BR/>Interesting times, indeed.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09747874295331152779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25499814.post-60074255538203707962008-09-19T04:22:00.000-07:002008-09-19T04:22:00.000-07:00I also used to think the people who came before me...I also used to think the people who came before me had far more interesting lives. Now I can understand life wasn't really interesting, just worrying. I think we in the west have had it pretty easy for a long time and because of that complacency set in. We thought life would always be the same. We were mistaken.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07027028952998373863noreply@blogger.com