david vartanoff Wrote:
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> indeed, hutch. Since you have been here a long
> time, presumably your house has appreciated
> greatly; so sell it, and move somewhere cheap
> where your profit alone will sustain you for a
> while.
>
> About the transit projects stymied by NIMBYs and
> others, if they had been built commuting would be
> less horrendous. Along w/more transit we badly
> need all of the denser housing the NIMBYs blocked.
> Allowing the dumb corporate designers to build
> low rise offices all over greater San Jose instead
> of towers wasted much acreage which could have
> housing. Same stupidity for years in
> Berkeley--the I liked the small town where I went
> to college, all you others go back where you came
> from crap, only works in an area not worth living
> in.
>
> Why do I stay? For starters as a movie buff, the
> best single film Archive/Theater outside LA is a
> civil half hour stroll from my front door. And I
> have a network of kin/clan.
> As to the whining about safety and health
> regulations, I support most of them; I like
> cleaner air. Forty-seven years in doing
> construction work, I have never been seriously
> injured and ,like it that way. You want looser
> regulatory oversight, I am sure WV, KY, TN AL, MS
> all have cheap housing and lower taxes. Oh, and
> we have trains here too.


Currently worth 3.1 million right next to the future High speed rail on the peninsula