[quote=svelte]I went over to an engineer’s desk one day and we worked through a problem. While we were talking he said he was moving to Montana for more privacy.

I asked where he lived now. He said a 10 acre avocado ranch in Valley Center. I looked at him confused.

He picked up on my confusion and said he was looking for a whole ‘nuther level of privacy than he had now.[/quote]

There is this monstrosity in Carmel Valley called One Paseo built by Kilroy. It’s a ridiculously huge mixed use high density mall+high density housing supposedly catering to the high end tenants who want to live in a city like , higher density atmosphere. Even the rent reflected city likeness, with city like rent prices. There’s only one problem… It’s still just Carmel Valley in the suburbs. The vacancy was already pretty bad to begin with. After this covid scare, where people don’t want to live in such a dense environment, I can’t imagine them doing any better. I see some folks trying to get the hell away from high density housing if they can. And some , since they need to remain at home, are looking for a bigger place and contemplating buying.

And now, some of the folks that previously were looking forward to taking the trolley lines when they completed around UTC, mentioned to me they would be driving by themselves indefinitely. So looks like covid made people rethink just how far they want to take “going green”. I have a large collection of plastic bags again too from grocery stores.
And all those hand wipes towels, latex gloves, and face masks, and plastic bottlesnofnhand santizer being tossed on a daily basis can’t possibly be good for the environment.