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08 April 2009

yeah, right

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Bluebear24/8/09, 7:06 PM
Well that made my evening!

Elk Grove, Calif., and Windy Ridge, N.C., are slowly turning into ghost towns with overgrown lawns, vacant strip malls and squatters camping in empty homes.

Elk Grove indeed, where we were supposed to be done building a Macy's store and a number of other smaller shops - now on hold, half built. Where the foreclosed homes have been turned into indoor pot gardens.
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994/8/09, 7:17 PM
I'm beginning to think I should quite whining for my wealthy gentleman, quit bitching about my no money to get out of here, and just go find an abandoned building to homestead.

I remember when Elk Grove was still distinct from Sacramento, when you actually felt you'd left Sacramento before you got to Elk Grove. I used to go out there to ride this fabulous Dutch Warmblood nobody else could handle. I hate Elk Grove, and I hate Sacramento, but I would drive to Elk Grove from Auburn two or three times a week to ride that magnificent horse.

Basically, I have that feeling that I just want to swipe the table clean of all the greedy idiots again, and it's too frustrating.
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Bluebear24/9/09, 1:06 PM
Elk Grove is no longer a distinct entity.

Driving down 99 or I-5, Sacramento no longer stops - everything in between has been filled in with subdivisions where the homes are inches apart and strip malls. You have to go further south along those routes to find an open field.

The same is true north of town - heading up I-5 the sprawl runs almost all the way to the airport. All in an area which is a flood plane of the Sacramento River and used to be used for growing rice.

If you head up 99 & 70 the sprawl starts again 10 miles south of Marysville.

And east of town it goes all the way to Placerville along 50 and beyond Auburn on I-80.

I have an old Thomas Brothers map book of the area from the late 70's. You can't even recognize the place looking at those maps!
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08 April 2009

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