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Originally Posted by Vicsun  I feel that way too. I guess I just have a hard time feeling righteous indignation at rich people spending money on things I can't. |
And that makes perfect sense, because I don't know anybody who's foolish enough to dislike this kind of land purchasing and house building on the basis of jealousy. The loss of land resources is another matter.
If I hadn't lived for a while (9 years) in New Jersey, so very densely populated that almost the only things called parks are postage stamp-sized baseball fields, I might agree with you. But there is a real dearth of greenery in much of the state, and an absence of quiet ruralia where you can just kick by and enjoy. Those lands still remain, but they're private property. Mind, I don't blame the owners. I blame the mendacity of the politicians and the real estate agents.
Much the same can be said of the area of the Outer Banks in the northeastern peninsula of North Carolina, which used to be so pristine, despite the presence of a large number of rental houses, that small herds of wild horses wandered anywhere, and were depicted proudly on teeshirts.
No longer. The building frenzy has gotten so bad that there's practically no spot of land adjacent to the narrow but long stretch of road either sold for very expensive commercial or real estate, and the horses have fled. So has the reason many people came there, originally, for vacation.
So to use my own personal example, while I would have no problem with somebody building a 4000 sq ft home on 20 acres in Wyoming, I do have a problem with it occurring in very populated areas that lack natural woodlands or park terrain except for that which has been sold for homes to the hyper-wealthy.