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Originally Posted by LieutenantEd
The new Wal- Mart Super Center was situated across the Turnpike from Magnolia Plaza in the St. John’s open area at Meggison and Warm Springs/Morse Ave………….it would be ACCESSIBLE by Golf Cart! (And closer to all with limited shopping choices in the far south regions).
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This reminds me of some people I knew when I lived in the pleasant city of Lincoln, Nebraska. It was just a twenty minute walk to downtown with its restaurants, bars, and stores. The university’s cultural events were there: museum, opera, concerts. In another direction they were a five minute walk to a grocery store. In another direction they could walk to church. In the winter they didn’t have to shovel much snow or drive in it very often. But they really wanted to live on a small farm and have some animals, even though weren’t farmers. So they bought a little farm on a gravel road about a thirty minute drive south of where they lived before. It wasn’t long before they began agitating for more stores to be built close to them. It was so inconvenient having to drive so far to go out to eat or shop. My friend had owned a music store on the main street of town. He sold it and became a realtor selling commercial property. In ten years he managed to get some restaurants and stores built within ten minutes drive of his prairie farm. His gravel county road was paved. Developers bought land around him and put up a couple hundred fancy houses. The neighbors were too far away to get to know. The family joined the country club. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot, as Joni Mitchell sang.