Quote from: Huggs on Nov 18, 2019, 09:32:22 PM
I was out driving on the highway and passed all the new construction. In one mile, I passed driveway after driveway of brand new million dollar houses where there used to be lush forest. I bet I saw 10 million bucks worth of house and another 5 driveways where more are about to be built. Then came the miles of deforested land with blasted rock, huge boulders, dirt and fencing everywhere. And machines parked all over it.
I felt like that Indian from the old littering commercial.
I've lived by a military base all but a few years of my life and its weird how the restructuring that happens every fifteen years or so changes the surrounding area.
When the GWOT was in full swing they needed every brigade active for personnel to send over to fight it, when it started waning they took out one of the brigades and lots of people left the area.
There were several projects started for off base housing that got canned, so developers spent all this time clearing land and building houses only to have nobody to sell them to. So they essentially had built houses with electricity and water that could be run to them, that nobody every bought or lived in and basically left them for the wilderness to take them over.
Nice houses to. I just wish I could remember WHERE they were. When I left for Army and then college I remembered how to get there. Now I don't and it bugs the shit out of me. I'd be curious to see if the contractors came back in and bulldozed them down, or if there is a secret subdivision somewhere that is all growed up and crazy looking.
There is also a golf course that was closed where the townhouse/clubhouse was shuttered and got taken back over by nature.
