> Where I currently live, the location of my SO's extended family one of
> whom we care for, has almost zero public transportation. Where it does
> run is basically a connection between four locations, three shopping
> and one where municipal buildings are located. If you don't work in
> one of the four areas connected, or along the routes connecting them,
> there is effectively no public transport you can use.
Exactly the situation on Cape Cod, where my aunt lived. Such places are basically playgrounds for the idle rich or for tourists with their own wheels. (She was neither an idle rich person or a tourist, but there are exceptions to every rule.)
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:35 PM, John also Thornton wrote:
> The land you speak of as "retired" from farm use is overwhelmingly
> done so because of unrealistic real estate prices forcing it out not
> any real need reduction in farmland.
Besides which, there is the obviously fallacious assumption that the only two possible uses for land are farms and cities.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________________ Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. -- Attr. to Alfonso the Wise, King of Castile