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From: roger@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Back East vs. the Coast
Message-ID: <473@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Oct-83 18:37:21 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  1 18:37:21 1983
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   I was born and raised back East (NH) and currently going to college
out here in the southwest.  I find it hard to believe how some of
these southwestern's  are misguided about what the east is really like.
Most (it seems like it) believe that everybody lives 2 feet from their
neighbor's house (from Boston to Washington, and 100 mile inland from
the Atlantic Ocean) and that it is possible to drive from Boston to
Washington without leaving the downtown area.  Some of this might be
true (NJ and NYC), but Boston isn't that bad.  Southern NH isn't as
bad as Boston, and it never will.  Many towns there are trying to
control the movement of people into their towns to preserve the
rual culture of the town (you need a large piece of land to build
a house now, so you are MANY feet from any neighbor).   I've seen
houses packed closer togeather here, and in the Dallas/Ft. Worth
area when flying into DFW airport, than they are back home. And they
aren't even trying to control it here at all.

                                             roger