Quoted: We've got the same problem down here. Three or four local families that purchased the land for $50 per acre and now that development is coming that way, it $45,000 per acre. Land here is about the same as yours; 3.5 per acre. Those families control most of the usable land.
We've lost malls, Budwiser, Home Depot, Lowes and such over this nonsense.
End result: No growth. The developers go someplace else and the city starves.
I have mixed feelings about this.
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I have NO mixed feelings about that whatsoever.
FUCK the developers. HOORAY for private land ownership and the right to do with it AS YOU PLEASE.
If the developers want the land bad enough, they should damned well expect to pay through the
ass to get it...and if the owner doesn't want to sell, the developers can go pound sand up their asses and build on THAT little lot!
I have witnessed my county go through a HUGE growth phase in just the past few years, and it's
not slowing down. This was once almost paradise, with endless square miles of unspoiled Florida
forests, wetlands, and the like, and miles of beaches with no buildings on them, and housing
that was affordable and built on nicely sized quarter acre lots. Now, it's almost wall-to-wall
housing developments, MASSIVELY inflated housing prices, to the point that I may NEVER be
able to afford to buy the house I grew up in, at market value, and what they have built is cracker
box, mass-produced cookie cutter houses built on zero lot lines. Stuff all the houses you can
onto an acre of land, charge out the ass for them, and screw anything resembling a QUALITY
way of life. If you stick your hand out your bathroom window at the same time your neighbor does,
you're shaking hands.
Anyone here ever play the game MDK?
I SO want to see a bunch of City Minecrawlers rip out eighty percent of this county's development,
if not even more!
I hate developers with a passion usually reserved for anti-gun groups.
CJ