Doug Pensinger wrote:
Collapse by Jarred Diamond
Part One: Modern Montana
Chapter One: Under Montana's Big Sky
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A similarity to my home town of Morgan Hill, Ca. to the Bitterroot
Valley is the contrast in attitudes of the old timers; farmers and
ranchers with sizeable land holdings and upper-middle class to upper
class professionals with a fondness for the small town atmosphere in
close proximity to a major metropolitan area. Morgan Hill has a
slow-growth policy that allows a limited number of new housing units
per year. This is frustrating to landowners because there is a huge
demand for housing in the area.
Have you ever driven through the Bitterroot Valley south of Missoula,
Montana? I have done it only once, but I was deeply impressed with the
beauty of it, and the size of the huge wood frame houses along the way.
They were enormous, not particularly fancy but very large. I think that
Missoula is one of most beautifully situated cities in the world, right
along the spine of the continent.
Of course, it isn't any prettier than Ketchikan, Alaska where I live.
But then a perfect 10 is a perfect 10.
John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Since we are all children of the same Heavenly Father,
we really are all brothers and sisters." --Uncle Bob
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All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR
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