Land

So yesterday I watched a program about how open, wooded land is disappearing up near St. Cloud. I guess in Stearn's County there is only about 2-3% preserved land for woods and nature to thrive. There are so many community developments it looked really bad. Who wants to live in a crammed neighborhood where you hardly have a property to have fence around. I mean there's a reason why there are suburbs and rural areas outside of the city...for more nature to be around us. For more space.

This got me thinking about my own views about owning a home. I've told many people that I want at least 5-10 acres of land. I'm not necessarily going to farm, but I would like space. I live in the suburbs of the Twin Cities Area and, even though we have 3/4 an acre of land, I still need more space. I like not seeing another house next to me. I would rather get a glimpse of a house through a forest of trees.

This show made me realize that even though I only want 10 acres of land, it's important that I buy it and not developers. I'm not saying all developers are the same, but a lot of developers see 10 acres of land and think of all the houses they can squish onto it. That does not appeal to me in any way and we need to stop this way of thinking. If we don't, we could lose the the nature that we have now.