Quaint Or Sprawl? Pick One

Would you rather live in a charming place or a convenient one?

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September 10, 2002, 9:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"It finally sank in that if there's a contest between charm and convenience, I was coming round to the American view: Quaint's what you want on vacation, but modern's where you want to live...What unsettled me about the Cotswolds, I now realized, was that the undeniable beauty of the area derives from a profound resistance to change, or at least to change that isn't in keeping with history and tradition...I offer strip malls and shopping plazas as ultimate expressions of the thoroughly admirable American devotion to transience."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Quaint's Nice, But Sprawl Makes Me Weak at the Knees

Sunday, September 8, 2002 in The Washington Post

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