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At least in the Eastern US, this is a problem. While I love and support open spaces and natural habitat, at some point, the trend to buy up property and put it
by wrycoder 5y ago
At least in the Eastern US, this is a problem.
While I love and support open spaces and natural habitat, at some point, the trend to buy up property and put it into permanent conservation results in only the wealthy being able to afford the remaining housing amid the beautiful, quiet greenery.
- toast0 5y agoIf you want to live amid beautiful quiet greenery, what else are you supposed to do? Yes, it costs more money to live there, because it's more desirable and of limited supply. You can't really buy enough homes and lots to form a 10 acre plot and smash all but one of the homes and replant the greenery, or if you could, it's not cost or time effective vs buying a 10 acre plot that's already greenery or if that's not available, buying a small plot surrounded or at least adjacent to a conservation limited plot.
- closeparen 5y agoIn California they don’t bother to buy it up. They just get public policy implemented so that the owners can’t use it for anything. I would be over the moon if conservation interests were limited to land they owned.