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From: chabot@amber.DEC (Lisa Chabot)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Rending in Brookline
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 11:06:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  7 11:06:40 1984
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>>If you can't stand it, move to Boston, New York, or any other place
>>where social maturity has triumphed over the paranoid worship of
>>"property".

>It's not true.  Just try to rent an apartment in Cambridge, Brookline,
> or anywhere in New Jersey, and see what happens!

"Social maturity"...well, guess that's what I see when I look out my windows 
and see my neighbors pissing on their house, their cars, and the stolen stone
dog in their parking area.  

Okay, I guess I can stand THESE demonstrations of social maturity (although it
seems that there must be some sort of a zoning law requiring indoor plumbing),
but I get a bit grumpy when they decide to demonstrate their social maturity
triumphing over the paranoid worship of property by kicking holes in my
landlord's fence and by destroying parts of my landlord's porch and other
neighbor's porches.  (The fence was nice because it prevented me from viewing
the social maturity of my neighbors and it also hid from urchins an
opportunity to triumph over the paranoid worship of property in the form of
stripping my roommate's bicycle.) 

When the dean at Northeastern University chuckles over my neighbors' social 
maturity with "Well, boys will be boys", is he demonstrating his social 
maturity?  Or is it rather that he is chuckling at us, because his paranoid 
worship of property led him to not live near students of his university?

	Lost native Californian whose been living in Brookine for n years,
	Lisa S. Chabot

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