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As a bordertown to the Navajo Nation, we have a variety of social problems and a lack of services that makes it hard to attract tourists and new residents.

How are we to stay focused!!

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England is small and there is a shortage of housing. The current government is encouraging house building on the edges of towns a... [show more]

England is small and there is a shortage of housing. The current government is encouraging house building on the edges of towns and cities and in the countryside itself. Small, English villages and small market towns are facing the possibility of an increase in size. The housing will be in the form of modern housing estates - small boxes in rows - a suburban answer to housing and inappropriate for rural areas. Villages that have grown organically in response to housing need over centureis will be ruined by this plan.

The reason for the growth in house building in rural areas is a response to the growing desire people have to escape the cities where they work. They flood into the countryside and by coming here, they destroy the very thing they came for - peace and quiet and traditional country living.

In America, any desire to escape to the country can be accommodated easily - there is so much land on which to build. Wilderness living is still a possibility. In England - forget it - we are full.

The desire to escape is partly fuelled by the love of all that is quaint and "Olde Worlde" but increasingly, it is fueled by "White Flight" that shameful desire to escape mixed race inner city environments. The people who are coming to the country are often blue collar right, wing racists, and they do not fit in well with the existing rural population who, are more often old fashioned and quite peacefully middle class or old rural families who have worked the land for generations. It is not a happy mix. [show less]

Thankfully i live outside the city!

Jacksonville, FL is in "The South".