From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 09:11:58 MDT
ankara wrote:
>
> >Removing the double negatives, I get:
>
> >>Silicon Valley is like Steppford. Its a fractal. No more flavorful
> >>artsy non-strip-mall community exists. (?)
>
> >Wait, less flavorless=more flavorful?
>
> >Please restate. spike
>
> Spike,
>
> Please pardon my faux pas. I meant to say it's a bland., sterile,
> homogenized suburban four-lane strip precisely punctuated by featureless
> chain stores.
>
> But that's just the opinion of person who feeds on opera, theatre, museums,
> architecture, and all manner of creative inspiration. Can anyone recommend
> the perfect place to live? Is anyone else interested in semi-off-the-grid,
> alternative-building materials housing? I'm thinking semi-subterranean and
> lead-lined......
Boston and Seattle are my two favorite cities, the have plenty of what you
describe. If you are looking for something more remote, the area I live in in NH
is nice, it has all that, on a smaller scale. There is an opera company, a
number of theatre groups, numerous small to medium venues in various towns as
well as the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, a couple miles up the road.
There are museums and galleries, but nothing grouped up like you see in Pioneer
Square in Seattle, and numerous examples of georgian, classical, and other
architectural styles that date back to their period. Living off the grid is easy
round here, and there are architects here who were pioneers in alternative
building materials, as well as the back to traditional post and beam
construction, which I favor over the stud/gypsum/fiberglass of contemporary
construction.
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