"pltrgyst" > wrote in message
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> On 1/19/14, 6:47 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> ... whereby a municipality will buy a row of houses, demolish them, and
> > sell the land cheap....
>
> Do you you really believe this fiction, or do you
> make this stuff up to troll the group?

*I* didn't write that. That was some bad snipping there. and no, I don't
necessarily believe that. I do know that houses can be bought up for
various reasons but it's not all that common around these parts. Or maybe
it is and I just don't know about it. I do know that there were a lot of
what appeared to be landlocked houses when we moved here. We used to joke
that they were haunted or something. One had been in a fire. They have
recently been torn down. In one area they are putting up new houses. In
the other it's apartment buildings.

When we moved here, this area was making the switch from sleepy farm country
to a much more populated place and it's just growing larger and larger.