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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAn inordinate fear of no water | By Mark Morford
It seems simple enough, even a little romantic, a little American-dreamy: Im looking to buy some property.
Northward. Woodsy. Modernrusticsexycool. Just the sweetest and most perfect getaway property ever, is all, something about an hour or two from San Francisco, up in the more lushly arboreal regions of Sonoma or Napa counties, remote enough to quell the Citys roar but not so remote to be inhaling all the off-gasses from regional meth labs or suffering any gunfire from Mendocinos cranky pot kingpins.
Is it too much to ask? A modest home-slash-retreat space on a few acres that can maybe house a handful of yoga students and/or writers for a long weekend, accessible to civilization but not so snobbish that you cant run around naked and covered in chocolate and bourbon and dreams, and all of it on columnist/yoga teachers budget?
It might be. Obvious Problem No. 1: I dont work for Google, or Oracle, or FaceTwitChat, and therefore am not up to my flaccid fleece hoodie in mountains of tech-bro cash that I can throw around like Monopoly money; I dont even have an extra $2 million to buy a closet-sized condo in the Mission. It makes things a little rough.
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2014/06/24/an-inordinate-fear-of-no-water/
handmade34
(22,755 posts)I am very safe on my little waterlogged property in Vermont, but out traveling, I know all too well the reality of other people's world
Puglover
(16,380 posts)I have a few friends that retired to Las Vegas and Phoenix. And I wonder WTH are you thinking? What are those cities going to be like in 15 years.
It's very frightening.
raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)for his "long weekend...naked and covered in chocolate and bourbon..."
Truly, the promise of the American Dream lies unfulfilled until this man gets his second home! And no, he doesn't want to hear about all this "drought" business.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Romulox
(25,960 posts)He begins his story with a whine that he can't afford a secluded place in the country as a *second* home as a segue to talk about water. Then he spends the remainder of the column telling us how it is all somebody else's fault.
It's more than a little bit of a tone deaf way to talk about the issue \.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)that a lot of actor/theater people want to do. secondly, this is a personal story told to highlight a very big problem in California (and other places), the de-regulation of agribusiness and the over-consumption of meat.
it's actually a real great piece, unless you make this weird assumption that morford is a super-wealthy person looking to throw their money around. which as it were, is a strange assumption
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)and the California drought. His beginning is just a lead-in to the real topic.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)while making it a personal story.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)to often serious topics.
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closeupready
(29,503 posts)It's a renewable resource.