Loss of a sense of place
The Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul rank somwhere around 16th in terms of total population. So, we're not a small town.
Lately, it seems as pieces of my adolescence are rapidly disappearing to development.
Dumb Dumb School (or the "alternative" school for pregnant teens)has been torn down and new 55+ condominiums are now up in their place.
The old house that some friends rented when I was in high school was condemned and recently torn down. I drove by today and a new sign was up advertising the row-house-style townhomes that will be built there in the summer of 2006.
The old cornfield where we used to park and makeout or have a bonfire while we chugged a 6-pack has been turned into a golf course.
The field behind my junior-high football field has been torn down and a new apartment building was built in it's place.
I am sure there are others, too. It is just amazing to me that in a span of close to 20 years so many of memory spots have been torn down. Maybe it was because a lot of the areas I hung at were fringy or marginal back then?
You mean that they weren't owned by some corporate big-wigs trying to make as many bucks off of us as they could, I would have to agree.
It's happening everywhere. More apartments, more crap. Do we really need a Rite-Aid in everytown?
I guess that in the next 10 years, 60% of the worlds human population will live in the cities...less small farms. More corporate farming. We're also getting close to our population limits. I noticed that in Portland, companies are buying up the 0.1 acre lots that used to support 1 house, and building 3 or 4 town homes on them. It's pretty gross to me.
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming." Pablo Neruda
"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself" DT Suzuki
when things change that way. i used to hang out in this apartment, then they tore it down. Whenever we walk by we say: we used to hang out up there and point to a spot in the air.
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