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A friend at the cool condos in which we live here in in San Jose dug up a very interesting photo exposé. If there's anything I'm a complete sucker for, it's photos showing a modern city or establishment as it used to be -- whenever. I always love when old restaurants have photos of what the place looked like decades ago. Mind you: this is all within no more than 10 minutes walk from where I now sit, so it's completely relevant to me. At a glance, I'm struck by what a profound difference trees planted in sidewalk openings make. Beautiful. Of course, I'd be remiss in not commenting on the fact that the dreariness in the before photos is representative of a force that was determined to prevent development. Oh, it was never expressed like that. It's "planning," you know. And even when the "Redevelopment Agency" got underway -- whenever that was -- it was blunder after blunder; until someone, somewhere, got a clue and realized that it's only been about 3,000 years or so that cities have been known to thrive by having people live in cities. Imagine it. And, so, apartments, condos, and townhouses have been essentially...


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Richard Nikoley

I started writing Free The Animal in late 2003 as just a little thing to try. 20 years later, turns out I've written over 5,000 posts. I blog what I wish...from diet, health, lifestyle...to philosophy, politics, social antagonism, adventure travel, expat living, location and time independent—while you sleep— income by geoarbitrage, and food pics. I intended to travel the world "homeless," but the Covidiocy Panicdemic squashed that. I became an American expat living in Thailand. I celebrate the audacity and hubris to live by your own exclusive authority and take your own chances. ... I leave the toilet seat up. Read More

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