[beanpile]

Humans are like a virus. We consume everything until there is nothing left. I work in downtown St. Louis and often have to travel all over in the city. It's sad and disturbing to see what once was beautiful architecture and buildings turned into rubble and dead space. Instead of rebuilding and reusing we just sprawl and consume more...

fify

 

[Wibb]

What's happening around me is the rich are buying up 5-20 acre plots and putting one giant, ridiculous house on it to show how small their peckers are. Then they talk the neighbors into selling their 10 acres so they can make $1 mill per house they put on it next to them. A middle class person can't even afford to buy 5 acres and put a modest ranch home on it without being 3 hours away from civilization.

There was just 500 acres up the road from us that they paid $12/million for. The math at even $500k per home and 600 homes is $300 million. Even on the low end that's roughly $40 million in profit that builder makes which is triple what he paid the owner. Crazy world we live in...

 

[thwackaddict]

What I do find a little odd is that 100-125 years ago there were many more houses out in the country. Most of these have decayed burned or rotted to nothing. The uninhabited areas had become bigger and the cities were growing. Now the cities aren't shrinking much if any but the houses are spilling back out into the country. Most people still don't want to live an hour from civilization though.

The tide swings.

 

[Bryan Heimann]

I sure do. If I could get my wife on board I would move to the least populous county in the lower 48. As far as I know that would put us back in Texas. Deep southwest Texas, where oil derricks outnumber people about a hundred to one. But not much for hunting.

Maybe Idaho instead.

 

[PettisCoArcher]

I sure do. If I could get my wife on board I would move to the least populous county in the lower 48. As far as I know that would put us back in Texas. Deep southwest Texas, where oil derricks outnumber people about a hundred to one. But not much for hunting.

Maybe Idaho instead.

Whitetail, axis, hog, quail, dove, duck, predators, random exotics that have escaped...you could find something to shoot.

If not for the border issues, I love South and West Texas, I try to get out there and hunt every chance I can.

 

[Bryan Heimann]

Whitetail, axis, hog, quail, dove, duck, predators, random exotics that have escaped...you could find something to shoot.

If not for the border issues, I love South and West Texas, I try to get out there and hunt every chance I can.

Apparently fishing as well. According to google the least populous county in the lower 48 is Loving County, TX. It conveniently has got a reservoir fed by the Pecos River.

I wonder what duck hunting is like there. I would imagine pretty darn good, water being scarce. Lol

 

[rcg]

That’s the official population. Wonder what the unofficial/transient population is? Hard to find the addresses of all the road culverts, abandoned oil tanks, and junk cars that have 15-20 people living in them.

 

[BackyardBandit]

I sure do. If I could get my wife on board I would move to the least populous county in the lower 48. As far as I know that would put us back in Texas. Deep southwest Texas, where oil derricks outnumber people about a hundred to one. But not much for hunting.

Maybe Idaho instead.

Utah might be just what you're looking for...