In article , Mike Coslo
writes:

N2EY wrote:

In article , "Phil Kane"
writes:


On 23 Mar 2004 16:58:44 GMT, N2EY wrote:


And I do like the term "McMansion"!


We have some of them around here. Big houses, big price, tossed up quickly

by

cheap nonunion labor. CC&Rs out the ying-yang.

We call them "tract mansions"...... ggg


HAW!

We have a half-dozen of them going up near here in an area that was
last developed twenty years ago. Just for yah-yahs I'm going to
check out the CC&Rs after they are open for sale.


Probably don't allow you to have a pair of rabbit ears on the TV set.

What I find most intriguing is that the tower was there long before the
McMansions were built, so the builders and the buyers were not surprised.
Now
they're all upset. Just like when the Blue Route was finally built here in
the
Philadelphia area.

Not uncommon at all, Jim. In my area, we have farmers that hve sold off

land for development, after which the people that moved into the
development sued to shut the farmer down because of the noxious smells
emanating from the farm.

Now that's dumb!

I don't blame it entirely on the people suing, the farmer had to be
pretty stupid to not know that "development people don't like nature
very much.......

How would the farmer know?

This past Wednesday, I was in Lancaster County, PA. Amish/Mennonite country,
although development is pushing many of the Old Order out. We stopped at the
Wawa at the intersection of 30 and 896. In three directions there were outlet
malls and retail stores. In the fourth direction was a working farm, and a
farmer with a team of 6 horses cultivating. The smell was definitely rural but
not unpleasant.


73 de Jim, N2EY