On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:07:07 -0600, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>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...

....and some animals are 'pack' animals. maybe most humans prefer
groups.

your pal,
blake