George said:


"Greg G." wrote in message
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Greg G. said:

And while wood is definitely far cheaper here than in Clownifornia, I
live in the middle of a freaking hardwood forest - thousands of acres
of it - at least where the clear-cutters haven't gotten to yet....


NOBODY clear-cuts a hardwood forest with the expectation that it will be one
in the future. Clear-cutting is for softwood. where it makes sense because
the seedlings don't tolerate shading well.

No one ever claimed they wanted it to grow back. They strip it for
the hardwoods, and either leave it fallow, or build McMansions on it.
When they build here now, EVERY tree is removed. After all, don't
want those pesky song birds waking you up in the morning. And those
evil trees take up space that could be used for pavement or another
stinking, worthless house.

Like this:
http://www.thevideodoc.com/Images/AerialAtlanta-2.jpg
The areas left with trees are where the locals wouldn't sell - yet.

http://www.thevideodoc.com/Images/AerialAtlanta-5.jpg
There are over 20 houses in this one picture alone. This mess is
tucked in a slim alley between two older neighborhoods - that's why
there are still trees visible.

When developers originally moved into Atlanta, they built nice homes,
left the majority of the trees, and the houses actually had yards for
the kids.

But Ryland Homes and other such maggot's interpretation of
homebuilding is to strip everything - and I mean EVERYTHING.
The top soil, the trees, the rocks. All that is left is red clay.
Everything else is trucked off and sold.

When you buy a bag of potting soil at Home Depot, you don't get a well
mixed formula of perlite, vermiculite, peat moss and composted soil.
You get a bag of Georgia Forest Topsoil - even says so on the back of
the bags in very small print. It doesn't even matter what brand you
buy: Miracle Grow (crap), private brands (crap), Jungle (better),
Bayer (same crap) or Schultz (used to be a good mix, but now it's
produced locally and is crap as well.)

http://www.thevideodoc.com/Images/AerialAtlanta-7.jpg
They just got started on this one...

They attempt to alter the rolling terrain to fit their crappy slab
homes, and then everyone surrounding this mess is left to deal with
the rainwater erosion problems they have created. It's horrible...
And these damned northern industrial city transplants just eat up...

They have turned a forested jewel into a cesspool of foul pollution.
Unmanaged growth and development, crooked local government officials
hungry for money and kickbacks, and locals who sell-off to get the
hell away from what this is turning into. It's not a pretty site...
Even been to Compton, CA? Welcome home!

Sorry about the rant, but I have to live here...
It's like someone raping your child - over and over - and you're
powerless to stop them.

FWIW,

Greg G.