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Originally Posted by StoOgE
As far as the country being "boring".. I find living in the country a fair bit more exciting than living in big box strip center suburban hell that it has turned into.
I'll either live my entire life in the core of really cool cities (of which Austin qualifies) or in the country. I'll never ever buy a house in the burbs.
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I sort of feel that way. I love the outdoors and nature, but still, the idea of living out in the country kind of gives me the creeps. I don't see eye to eye on politics and things with most of the people out there, and then there's other things. My cousin lives in Cedar Creek on 2 acres. Just recently his poodle was attacked and killed by two neighbor dogs. There was also a friend of my mom who had 4 of her dogs attacked and killed by a swarm of killer bees. She lived out in the country down around San Antonio. The bees were living in the attic of an abandoned building on their neighbor's lot. The guy knew they were there and didn't do anything about them. From what I heard, he thought the whole situation was a big joke. One of the dogs crawled under a storage shed to escape, and died under there. I have three small dogs of my own, I'd rather not worry about some idiot neighbor's dog attacking mine or dangerous wildlife putting them on the menu.
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Originally Posted by StoOgE
Driftwood is a really interesting situation. There are a lot of people with a ton of money who own very large tracts of land. Very little ranching actually takes place in the area.. mostly just people with a lot of land... so it has a better than average chance of lasting a few more years in it's current state.
Camp Ben is also going nowhere, and my great uncle owns most of the land next to it and I don't see him selling anytime soon. He hates city people with a passion.
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That's cool. I don't blame your uncle. Although, most urban minded city people live in the city to protect rural wild areas. It's the suburban people who don't give a damn. It also depends on the place, though. There are some rural areas where the people do love and protect the environment, even though they live there. And then there's ones in other places who trash it.