In Chesterton’s “Club of bleeep Trades”, one of the tradesmen built fully functional adult size tree houses for eccentric Englishmen. I would love to live in one of those. I also remember in the “Taken” trilogy by Alan Dean Foster, one of the alien races prefers to live in high tech (biotech/nanotech) treehouses. The trees grow in a controlled manner to suit the inhabitants.
Club of “bleep” trades? What did the nannybot censor this time?
There’s a subdivision across the road from us with a name something like “River View Estates.” Naturally, it’s at the top of the bluff, half a mile from the river, and there is no place in the entire development (except maybe precariously balancing on the ridge of the roof) from which one can actually see the river.
In SC, we have rivers named after extinct Native tribes. We also, bulldoze pecan trees, erect boxy structures & plant some non-native foreign bushes. This is progress!!!
Consider all the tracts called “Water this or that” or “Hunters Ridge”. The first are under water now and the second is a memorial to the coveys that used to live there.
yyyguy over 13 years ago
subdivisions: where they cut down the trees, and then name the streets after them.
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
Try and mapquest that.
jkoskov over 13 years ago
They should name them for what they really are…
Snooty Upscaled Drive Keeping Up with The Jones’ Avenue
and…
Underachieving College Graduate Still Living With Their Parents Boulevard
Olddog1 over 13 years ago
You left out the neighborhood named “Mortgage Manor.”
TexTech over 13 years ago
And don’t forget McMansion Blvd.
stuart over 13 years ago
In Chesterton’s “Club of bleeep Trades”, one of the tradesmen built fully functional adult size tree houses for eccentric Englishmen. I would love to live in one of those. I also remember in the “Taken” trilogy by Alan Dean Foster, one of the alien races prefers to live in high tech (biotech/nanotech) treehouses. The trees grow in a controlled manner to suit the inhabitants.
puddleglum1066 over 13 years ago
Club of “bleep” trades? What did the nannybot censor this time?
There’s a subdivision across the road from us with a name something like “River View Estates.” Naturally, it’s at the top of the bluff, half a mile from the river, and there is no place in the entire development (except maybe precariously balancing on the ridge of the roof) from which one can actually see the river.
alan.gurka over 13 years ago
yyyguy said, about 10 hours ago
subdivisions: where they cut down the trees, and then name the streets after them
Sadly, we’ve done the same with American Indian tribes too: wipe them out, steal their land, and name some counties after them posthumously.
tcambeul over 13 years ago
In SC, we have rivers named after extinct Native tribes. We also, bulldoze pecan trees, erect boxy structures & plant some non-native foreign bushes. This is progress!!!
snarky1941 over 13 years ago
Consider all the tracts called “Water this or that” or “Hunters Ridge”. The first are under water now and the second is a memorial to the coveys that used to live there.