I can understand Fuzz's perspective. The Province is changing. The small town I went to school in has doubled in the last 15 year, and will no doubt double again in the next 10. It is not the little agricultural community that it used to be, it is a glorified suburb.
Just the same, in the last 20 years there has been an astounding amount of acreages developed. Most of whom knocked down trees or carved up native grass to plant pristine city slicker lawns. They create traffic, and eye sore buildings and have kids that break our gates and do burnouts at the end of our lanes on their quads. Truth is a hate them and it feels like they destroyed something precious to me.
But Sliver is right. You can't freeze time in 1997. The world is changing and the country is growing and people want to move to these places because they're beautiful and peaceful, ( even though they change it simply by arriving). They want to be there and love it for many of the same reasons I do, and who am I to play god and tell people that they were too late, or that it's only for me. In the end that just makes me miserable and hateful and that does the world ( and the environment) no good.
This is what I tell people when they talk about the changes in the county. Move to north Saskatchewan if you want something to yourself, because Alberta is only going to grow.
|