origin of Boondock

DutchmenSport wrote:
Remote? Hamilton County, Indiana use to be "remote." As a kid (1960's) one could drive country roads and never find a house. Fields and not even telephone poles. Then those back-country graveled roads turned into black-top, then into lined blacktop, then into 4 way roads, and now, when you drive from the North side of Indianapolis to anywhere, it's all 4 lane divided (almost everywhere). It started with a "remote" spot someone thought would be a nice place to put a house ... nice .. "remote" away from everyone. Sure ... worked great for the first homestead. But then someone else came along, then someone else, then a gas station, a shopping mall, sewers, gas lines, water lines, electric lines, more shopping malls, now mamouth apartment complexes, housing additons, home owners associations, and the fields that once were "remote" ... aint no more! It all started with 1 person "occupying" a "remote" spot! Top 10 "remote" spots ... not so remote when a bazillion tourists travel to see how "remote" it is. Sorry, there are no remote spots when they've become a tourist attraction or turned into a shopping center!

I used to do environmental site assessments, typically as part of bank loan due diligence. Viewing a set of aerial photos of an area taken between 1939 and the present can give you a real scary look at the growth of urban sprawl. Also, we should all remember back in the 60's there were "only" 3.5 billion of us, now there's over 7 billion. I hate to say it but with maybe 15 years left before I leave the party I guess I'll be getting out just in time. I feel sorry for my kids having to deal with such an overcrowded future.