[Villages Kahuna]

Heck, I was one myself. Our little village in the woods on Chicago's North Shore was a bucolic place occupied by artists and gardeners. Our kids could ride the county roads on their bikes. Life was slow and good. It didn't speed up until I got off the train each morning in downtown Chicago.

But thirty years later the two-lane county road is now eight lanes wide with a 45 mph speed limit. All the vacant land now has office buildings on it. People are all in a hurry and less considerate and friendly.

I ran into a resident from the historic district a while back. She quietly complained that TV wasn't the same small, friendly place where Mr. Schwartz knew most of the people by name. She said they didn't mind being a little organized for their weekly trip to the nearest grocery store in Leesburg. She said it all began going downhill when they began the construction of the Spanish Springs town center.

Yep, the lifestyle she be a-changing. For better...or worse. That's all in the mind of the beholder methinks.