I must admit that it [Rendlesham...see photo at bottom] looks kinda ghastly. All that symmetry and "sameness" feels oppressive to me, as if the whole thing is inside some kind of lifeless Truman dome created by an autistic, obessive-compulsive designer/architect.
In a city, I tend to prefer...uh...non-sameness and asymmetry. That's one reason I like Leiden. The older areas in which I live are all...uh...older, and so the blocks may consist of row houses, but each one was originally built by an individual family (not to mention families *of* individuals), and so the blocks have a charm that you rarely see in any of these Vastu Woo Woo Lego neighborhoods. For example: The Dutch seem to share my tastes, because even in modern "designer" cities like the one I lived in when I first moved to the Netherlands (95% of it built since 1980), the new row houses preserve this idea of individuality. No two adjacent houses/apartment buildings in the same complex look the same. The silly Vastu Woo Woo stuff notwithstanding, I simply cannot conceive of how people could consider living in "little boxes, all made out of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same" to really be *living*. Here's a very creative cover of Malvina Reynold's old folk song on the subject by the talented group Walk off the earth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8JhvfoqdA ________________________________ From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 4:31 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Question for Sal Rendlesham in Suffolk. Here's a pic: Looks rather nice now the greenery has grown up a bit. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: Hey Sal, what is the name of the other vastu village in England, is it the place the Skelmersdale folk went to after they discovered the hill was too high?
