Parallax wrote:

... Unfortunately, my piece of paradise is being ruint by rich yankees ...

T'aint just yankees, it's addle-brained (sub)urbanites in general. They
move to get away from a culture they hate, then bust ass to impose it on
us. Too much crime? Find a place where there isn't any then whine for
city type gun laws. Tired of gummymint interference? Move to the country
and lobby for zoning laws. No privacy? Build a nice secluded home but
call the sheriff every time they hear a gunshot 'cuz it might be a
neighbor killing (sob) Bambi. Buy a "ranch" (anything over a half acre),
fence it and post "No Trespassing" signs, then wonder why the natives
shun them. Finally, fear of being 'alone in the woods' drives them into
"neighborhoods" exactly like the ones they just fled; there to demand
laws to 'protect the children' from learning where meat comes from and
privacy fences around farms to keep them from seeing animals having sex!
Might turn them into perverts y'know. ....

My theory is that (sub)urban folks breath so much carbon monoxide as
kids that it ruins their brains. Why else would *anyone* think that
living cheek to jowl in a tenement, condo or neighborhood is *better*
than a doublewide on 100 acres? But the real problem is they think gotta
"save" sane happy people like us from having to live like we do!! That's
why so many of them voted for Al Gore. )c:|