Ann wrote in
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You're right, Presley, however, there are still plenty of
places where you can live without too much interference
from others.

fewer & fewer, and mostly in the less temperate areas like
Maine or upstate NY (fortunately i enjoy large quantities of
snowg)

Thing is, the people who want to control move into an area
and then try to enact their controls. VH hopes a pig farm
would open near me. More the point, if I chose to move in
next to a pig farm, I wouldn't start trying to change the
laws nearby to outlaw the pig farm. We have that happen
around here all the time. VH would move next door and
spend the rest of her life fighting the pig farm and drive
the farmer out of business.

which is why "right to farm" laws have had to be enacted.
when i decide to sell & move again, i will specificly be
looking for a town /area with such laws in place.
as Southern NH becomes more crowded with idiot suburbanites,
i have to go through more trouble keeping my livestock... not
that there is anything wrong with what i have for a setup, but
"well-meaning" busybodies like to call animal control because
"there's a dead llama in that yard" (um, no. he's sunbathing.
he's perfectly healthy. if you actually *looked* you see ears
twitching), or "there is no barn, poor animals". true, but
there are 2 three sided shelters on the other side of the
hill, but they can't be arsed to ask *me* about husbandry, oh
no! they need to call SPCA or animal control...
wastes everybody's time (actually, our animal control guy
tends to dislike the idiots as much as i do, so he just gives
a courtesy call & doesn't bother coming out now)

There's a family who have owned a farm for generations in
Scituate, it's now a retail nursery. Someone bought the
land on the hill above them (it has ocean views) and built
several large homes. The people who moved in directly
behind the farm didn't like seeing the nursery operations
while they gazed at their view. They tried their damnedest
to shut them down. Thankfully there are enough people
around here to see their property rights eaten up at town
meetings thatthey voted these idiots down. They bought
their $800,000 house knowing full well the nursery was
there. Tough luck for them.

heh heh. i hate those people with a passion... money doesn't
mean you have the right to get your way.

Yes, as things get more crowded some of this will happen.
The towns around here pretty much recognize that people buy
here because it's small-town New England, and with that
come farms, animals, etc. The townies rightfully resent
the newcomers who try to change the rules to citify things.
If you don't like what goes on in an area, then don't move
there. Stick to a nice, governed subdivision and leave the
rest of us alone.

you might push for your town to look into right to farm laws.
it's really doing a favor to the NIMBYs... most of them have
no clue where thier food comes from.
and go to the town meetings & selectmen's meetings. you have
to be there to vote down the streetlights & sidewalks, the
strip malls & big box stores the suburbanites *have* to have.
if they needed them so bad, they should have stayed in the
city!
lee
BTW, China has surpassed the US in meat production. i dunno
about you, but i don't want to eat any meat raised in China!
i'll keep my own steers.



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