Why do people have to build in every open space of land possible? It's ridiculous?

Question

They are building tons of houses. OK, the homes we live in are built in the 70’s in the middle of nowhere with an awesome cornfield. Everyone knows each other and everyone is outside in the summer. Well, our neighbor across the street has a sister who is having trouble with money. She went to live with her. She has a lot of land but a medium house. The houses by us are medium sized but have larger yards. The rest of the town has big and modern houses and these were the first houses built in town. Now our neighbor sold it to a worker and they are building 4 houses. I got home from school today and there are 4 HUGE holes in the ground. Now, instead of seeing a beautiful sunrise over the trees, we get 4 houses to look at. Awesome, huh. Yeah right! The retention pond we have is the baseball field (only grass though). The cornfield (being destroyed next year) was where we played and looked at the pond in the middle and sat down. Across the street was a place where we played games and now it’s gone! In summer, there was baseball from 6-8 and tag games in the dark till about 10. And the neighbors let us run through their yards all the time. I hope the new people do too! 4 big houses! Isn’t it ridiculous? They work on it all the time and there is all of this noise from the machines!

Answer 1

I agree with you completely and to answer your question, it all comes down to the Almighty Buck!

Answer 2

Go back to 1969 and ask the people who lived there before your family moved in how they felt about building your houses in the cornfield.

Answer 3

I love how people will complain about the flooding of the streets come a heavy downpour, too. If they had left land open to plant life instead of building everywhere, then the ground would soak up all of that water. Asphalt doesn't do that.

Answer 4

I am sure there are many of us that will answer you have gone thru the same thing.
Problem i see coming in the future for us all. The building over farm lands have increased over the decade. Where will we be growing our food we need in the future?

Answer 5

I'm sorry for your....loss. However, thats life. The world is getting more and more populated, thus requiring some much needed space where people can live. I'm not saying they need 50,000 square feet of space...thats only for the selfish. People need their space though.

Answer 6

In the last few years, I have seen too many pastures and green spaces converted to subdivisions. But this is the way it is going to be.

Answer 7

They call it progress. If you cant move, you might as well get used to it. It builds up the tax base for the town.