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[quote=Anonymous]no one argues that the things you are describing aren't happening.  We have long avoided discussions of the long term problems involved in MANY parts of our culture.  It drives me nuts when I see new developments going up with no apparent attempt to invest in the infrastructure to support the houses, kids, traffic, etc.  I think at some point, building new homes stops (or at least slows) and we deal with the existing development.

There are no easy solutions.  We are where we are for so many reasons.  I think people are crazy if they think we can continue to let things age and decay and NOT raise taxes.  I realize it isn't popular, but it is the only way to come up with the needed revenue to maintain existing communities.  Continuing to build farther and farther into the land only makes things worse.

As someone currently househunting in the burbs, I am perfectly happy with the communities we are looking at with 30-40 year old housing stock.  Many younger families are buying into these communities and renovating, improving, etc.  Would I love to move closer in at some point?  Sure, but we are priced out of most of the close in communities, not to mention we both work in the burbs and plan to for a while.

Nothing about the next 10-20 years is going to be easy.  There are cliffs we are about to fall over in this country (Medicare and Social Security) that we have KNOWN were coming and just put off, and now we have a confluence of bad things working against us.[/quote]

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