Lilred's Rant of the Week: The Commonwealth

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Lilred,Its the same in the mountains in Wv. At my home there was only farmers, miners, and small mom and pop stores. Then the city slickers found we were great for ski resorts with the 200 inches of snow. Then came the skiiers on weekends with all season radials on their lexus who had been told" with these tires this car will go anywhere" Then due to tax breaks they started building condos and renting them. Finally they realized they could keep their city jobs and live in the mountains via Computers! Only problem was these highly educated folks didnt like these uneducated life long residents killing Bambi, driving lifted up 4 wd trucks, riding 4 wheelers, etc. They caused so much trouble grade schoolers are transported back and forth on a mountain daily to learn Spanish. Problem was there was only on teacher qualified to teach it and they had to bus kids from three schools to get enough students for a class. There are no Spanish people up there so the kids sure dont use what they learn. Developers bought farms and started housing projects with associations rules and regulations. Fed government bought land and made preserves everywhere and the only access to this land now is on foot or bicycle. NO HUNTING. I had a building contracting business up there and constantly battled with these pilgrams and their rebuttle to me was "you lifers up here just dont understand what you want or need" HA!