Hard times..

Gentrification happens all over tha place. In Puerto Rico, it%26#39;s places like Rincon (surfing area), Vieques (now that the military%26#39;s gone), Culebra. Since it%26#39;s so close to most east coast gateways, it%26#39;s being snapped up by mainlanders.

Same thing in San Francisco, Seattle, Boston. Urban and surrounding areas get a lot of influx, and local people keep on moving further and further away. When I lived in NYC after college I remember that places like Rhinebeck in the Hudson Valley were considered way too far away to commute-- nowadays, people live in picture postcard places like that and just commute. With a more connected world, distances aren%26#39;t the barrier that they used to be.

Hard times..

PLEASE IGNORE. This was meant to be a reply to another post and somehow was posted as a stand-alone post. Sorry!

Hard times..

No worries. It%26#39;s real easy to hit that ';new topic'; button.

It makes me heartsick to visit my home in DE and see all the farmland made into housing developments and the new highway running through the marshland. At least we%26#39;ve preserved a lot of salt marsh and beaches. Still...

Every year when I travel to KY I see the same kind of thing. What used to be open farmland is now housing.

Around here in CT people buy small lots and build McMansions. They obviously don%26#39;t understand the concept of open space. Many people have been driven out of the area because the values of the new homes drive taxes beyond their means, especially older homeowners. We ended up buying a place in HI because we have family there, and we can%26#39;t afford to keep living here. We won%26#39;t be ';living rich'; on Kaua%26#39;i, either.

I don%26#39;t know how you stop it, or even if you CAN stop it. Too many people.

(TA censors, please note that we ARE talking travel here.) %26lt;G%26gt;