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Amusing that this should be on the front page at the same time as the Atlantic article about Denver's transportation policy. The Villages is basically a pedest
by thrownaway2424 12y ago
Amusing that this should be on the front page at the same time as the Atlantic article about Denver's transportation policy. The Villages is basically a pedestrian's nightmare, without sidewalks or anything worth walking to or past. It also has no businesses, being completely reliant on the surrounding area for goods and services and entertainment.
Anyway, whenever you see the claim "fastest growing" you should just go ahead and substitute "small" and then the whole phenomenon makes way more sense. There was a period where Bryan/College Station, Texas, was the fastest growing metropolitan area in America. That didn't make it a nice place.
- karlkatzke 12y agoI resemble that accusation. (I live in Bryan/College Station, and did not graduate from TAMU, although I did work there for a few years.) No, really, B/CS is actually rather a nice place to live. It's continuing to grow pretty rapidly, the neighbors are nice, there are places to live without HOAs, and there's more than enough to do that doesn't involve drinking or college students.
- thrownaway2424 12y agoMaybe it's lovely now. Twenty years ago it was a dump, literally ... the TAMU socialist party newsletter (yes, really!) busted employees from the local Elf/Atochem factory dumping arsenic into the local reservoirs at midnight.