Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> Oh pshaw, on Tue 27 Nov 2007 04:15:41p, Pete C. meant to say...
>
> > Lou Decruss wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:26:44 -0600, "Pete C." >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Dan Abel wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> In article >, "modom
> >> >> (palindrome guy)" > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:14:45 -0500, "Nancy Young"
> >> >> > >
> >> >>
> >> >> > >I guess. Freeze them? And I'm curious, what is a standard lot
> >> >> > >in Texas?
> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I believe a standard lot here in Cow Hill is around 75 by 150
> >> >> > feet.
> >> >>
> >> >> Standard lots do vary a lot. When we bought our house, it was 60' X
> >> >> 100'. Ours was 60' X 90'.
> >> >>
> >> >> We got a cheap price, so I didn't feel cheated.
> >> >>
> >> >> I worked in San Francisco for a year. The houses I saw all had 25'
> >> >> lot widths. If you wanted to go in the back yard, you had to go
> >> >> through the house. There was no other access. I talked to a
> >> >> fireman there. They had to be very aggressive about putting out
> >> >> fires. You couldn't just let it burn. It wasn't one house, it was
> >> >> the whole block.
> >> >
> >> >a 25' wide "lot" is not a lot, it's a speck.
> >>
> >> Those "specks" are how Chicago lots were divided in the early 1900's.
> >> I have a friend who had two of them. He inherited both. The original
> >> cost was about $7,000 for both to the ancestor who originally
> >> purchased them. My friend charged neighbors to park on them and made
> >> enough to pay the taxes and have the lawn mowed. He recently sold
> >> them for almost half a million dollars. I guess the "speck" wasn't in
> >> his eye.
> >>
> >> Lou
> >
> > Oh, they're fine for profit purposes, but there is now way in hell (or
> > anywhere else) I could live on such a speck. I'm cramped on 4 acres
> > here, if I didn't have 65 acres elsewhere I'd probably be
> > claustrophobic.
> >
>
> It's all in what you used to.

I'm not convinced of that... Fact is that when they pack animals too
close together in a zoo, they fight... When they pack humans too close
together in a city, they fight... Think about it and where all the crime
and conflict is...