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| From | ronald and karen sanchez <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: Wal-Mart |
| Date | Thu, 04 Dec 2003 10:18:41 -0800 |
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In Montana there is a lot of those trophy homes. Just here in town they built a
huge subdivision of $750K+ homes up on the elk range. It's mostly those
"occupied once a year" houses. A lot of them are still empty, or went right
back up on the market, when people realized how expensive they were to
maintain. Down the road in Big Sky, Tim Blixeth, a zillionare robber baron,
built a "private resort". To buy into the Yellowstone Resort, you have to be
able to put $4 million on the table. Blixeth has totally disregarded a lot of
the laws and restrictions to build there, and can get away with it as he's in
with our dumb ass governor. A year ago, in the middle of a drought and massive
fires, he was shooting off fireworks at his "resort" with the governor standing
by his side!!
Big Sky Ski hill has the same problems as the resorts do in Colorado. The
people who work there can't afford to live there. There is a steady stream of
cars driving down there every day, and it's not just skiers. A lot of it is
construction workers, and trucks, as they are building non stop...
Karen was on a plane out of Boze with some wealthy doctor and his wife who'd
spent the weekend at their Big Sky condo palace. She asked them if they got out
and hiked around the area. The woman said "no, they spent the whole time buying
more furniture, and didn't have a minute to actually look at the wilderness
they are helping to destroy"...or something to that effect...
MTN HIGH wrote:
> It's interesting to see perspectives from other areas of the country
> concerning growth.
>
> And hey...at least the people inhabiting those 2 acre lots outside of Boston
> actually *live* there. Here...we have many massive homes (try 16K sq. ft) on
> million (or more) dollar lots that sit idle all year...used only at
> Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter breaks for those "perfect" rich boy
> holidays. All the while...even with no one there to enjoy it...the house is
> warm and cozy in winter...and the sprinkler system over-waters the 2 acre
> lawn on a daily basis in the summer. My wife works for the water CO...and
> although we're in the midst of a severe drought...people from the more
> humid/wet areas of the country where water is plentiful completely ignore
> the situation at hand...often using 10 times more water in a month than the
> typical family of 4 uses in an entire year! Likewise, even though we often
> have high pollution days in the valley...it's mandatory for most visitors to
> build a roaring fire in their condo.."'cus you have to have a fire in the
> fireplace after skiing in Colorado".
>
>
>
>
> In a nutshell...while I see the argument as being strong in many towns for
> living close-in rarher than in the 'burbs...the fact of the matter here is
> that *If* you could afford a home in "downtown" here...it's a given that you
> wouldn't walk to work because you obviously have so much money you *don't
> need to work at all*. Therefore..the commuters here aren't the rich folks
> living way out on the ranchettes that are to pricey for the average
> Joe...they're the people who have been forced down-valley simply to
> survive/afford ANYTHING resembling a home...which is definitely not the norm
> from what I see in some of the other points made in this discussion.
>
> "Beautiful losers...shakers and movers" Gladhands
>
> Pat
>
>
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