Another one bites the dust....

Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

Everything is in a state of constant change.  No complaints as I like change but while out on a walk the other day I was particularly struck by the change happening in my neighbourhood.   I live in the centre of a smaller city where there has been a mix of housing but mostly older 1-2 story family homes on larger lots.    In the past 5 years that has changed so that the shift is to larger, grandiose style structures with more living space than lot area.       It seems every day there is yet another smaller home being bull-dozed and it's place a yet even larger structure.  

I'm not sure where this is leading to?   As my thoughts move toward downsizing and reducing space and clutter, these larger homes promote massive living areas to be filled yet more and more clutter.   Where will I go when the kids are gone and I no longer need or want to manage more space than I can use?     Will there be a space for me?   Will my only option be to buy a piece of the sky or live in the underground space of one of these larger homes?     Who can afford these places and is that sustainable?
   
I'm beginning to no longer recognize the neighbourhood that I have grown to love over the past 25 years.     I guess I'm sounding like one of the 'old folks' that can't let go of the past.   I'm not really.   Ok, I'm older but I'm willing to allow things to move along.  I'm just not ready to feel like it's not my neighbourhood any longer.  I like where I live but am beginning to like many parts of it a lot less.

If people are attracted to living in this neighbourhood why do they need to change it rather than embrace what it already has become?  When we learn that bigger is not always better?  More doesn't mean anything beyond quantity and not quality?    

Enough of the rant.   There are still many qualities to my city that make it special and exactly what I like.  For now that will keep me here until it comes time for my home to face the bulldozer.   (sigh).