Re: So. Nevada

That's it. It is Las Vegas that I was talking about in the earlier post. Years ago, when one could get away from the strip, Las Vegas was really a rather quaint and friendly place. All anyone ever saw of it, who were from the outside, was the strip and downtown. They never got to know the real place and its surrounding.
Unfortunatly, Las Vegas succommed to that seductress of "growth"....and the mantra that has led many an American city to urban ruin...."jobs."
The politicians tout these as what builds a beautiful city. Instead it has led to miles of stucco row houses with red tile roofs. There isn't 10 cents worth of difference between any of them , and yet all the subdivisions carry natural and peaceful names. Names like....."Sundown Meadows" "Laguna Shores" "Cottonwood Creek" and other saccarine sounding bits of verbal crap.
The moral of my tale, is that one someone in your town talks about the benefits of growth, immediately drop what you are doing and find some tar and feathers and get the bum out of there. You bet...there will be some good jobs for awhile, and developers will make tons of money, but you, the lifelong resident will be left with the burden after they all blow out of town. You will have the same job, and so will your neighbor,but all the workers, developers and bunco artists will have left you clinging to the wreckage.
So, save your communities, and your history, and be very careful of unlimited cancerous growth.
Oh yeah.....railroads are the first to incur the wrathe of the developers. They just don't like that industrial stuff.. Just look what some are trying to do to the D&S.
Nuff said.