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had. By the time I graduated college all of the empty fields and forests where I had roamed as a teenager were now developments.
by mellavora 4y ago
had.
By the time I graduated college all of the empty fields and forests where I had roamed as a teenager were now developments.
- throwaway894345 4y agoWhere? In the midwest fields and forests still dominate, and the west is still vast expanses of wilderness. I don’t think your experience generalizes well (although perhaps it is more common on this forum considering it’s atypical demographics).
- bluGill 4y agoSure, but odds are he lived in some outer suburb that is no longer the outer suburb. That woods might have hung on for a while, but it was always doomed just be the fact that it was near a large growing city where most people live and thus remember. Get out a little farther from the city and the wilderness is going to do just fine, but that isn't what people will remember as a kid just by virtual that they never lived near it.
- throwaway894345 4y agoI don't doubt it's true for him. I'm expressing a doubt that it's indicative of the American landscape broadly, a claim which seems to be implied by his opening "had.".