City planning, eastside style


There are some things I just don't understand about the way people choose to live.

So, we decided to get out of the city and check out some fall colors this weekend. Maybe go for a walk in the woods. This is metronatural Seattle after all. So we drive east and east past what was once forest and now is housing developments with names like "cascade view," and I was left wondering something. I can understand the desire for people to buy a house in the suburbs. You want some space, and you want an affordable house, maybe you want someplace safe to raise your kids. Sure, I get it. What I don't understand is how people can move to these ridiculous subdivisions around Seattle (or San Francisco or Denver or any other place I've seen) where you may have a large house, but you stick your hand out of your window and touch your neighbors house. Also, you aren't saving any money, the starting prices on these things are in the $600K+. Also, you are literally MILES FROM ANYTHING, INCLUDING NATURE. People spend way too much money for so very little in these places and then they have to spend hours in their car getting to work, or the store, or even a frickin' movie. Meanwhile they are polluting the pristine places which must be at least part of the reason they moved there in the first place. What kind of life is that?

Posted: Mon - October 23, 2006 at 08:00 AM           |

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