Reply #18: It keeps pushing me out. [View All]

[LWolf]

As a kid I rode my little mustang mare all over wide open land in the west end of the SF Valley in CA. I could take off with my friends and be gone all day, and never run out of room to ride.

We moved in the mid 70s; the ranch I boarded my horse out was razed to build housing tracts, and access to places to ride was disappearing.

We lasted in the new place for a decade or so, and then moved again. And so on.

Every time I find a place, somewhere "out there," affordable with access to open space, the developers move in, and my horse and I are pushed out. It's happening again right now. The ranch I keep my horse on, and ride from, is part of an old cattle ranch sold to developers more than a decade ago. Legal challenges and developer bankruptcies have kept development at a standstill until this year. We have surveyors everywhere, ready to begin flattening, filling in the springs, mowing down the chaparral, and evicting the wildlife to make room for pricey, upscale housing tracts. And I'm on the move again.