Suspect in custody after four killed, four wounded in shooting rampage in Dallas, DeSoto

[freshwest]

33. Suburbia, huh. Yes, I have my greviances on that issue. But what I'd give for a piece of dirt...

So it looks like luxury to me now. Way too much house, if I had land, I'd put a Tiny House on it and turn the rest all into a garden. Be all solar with panels, passive solar heat and cooking, composting toilet and use grey water for the garden. Have some chickens for pets and eggs, maybe.

When I did have a little suburban home, it was tiny and the back yard was a garden, everything was geared to feed birds and be low energy. When I had a lot of land, it was moreso that way. That's me. It does no good for me to hold my nose and look down on these folks.

Perhaps I should have stated the POSSIBILITY of it being 'a great place to live,' if the culture was more to the way I'd like. I don't believe anything is set in stone, and we know little of these folks and what they were really about. They could have been saintly in their regard for life and their community. All we're being presented with is a caricature of lives now sadly ruined and lost

I see some in suburbia living totally indoor lives with what might as well be astroturf outside. They are being wasteful and unnatural, but have the money to live that way. They'll continue. And these are real people dead in this story, not people for us to throw stones at. Just sayin'