Monday, October 02, 2006

Chili's is almost ready to open it's doors here in Pleasanton. Wow - and I hear that Home Depot is coming soon as well. Now, I'm happy to have these nice, convenient places to go, it "saves the drive" into town and makes our little town more credible in the eyes of some people. But I find myself putting on the brakes - just how big do we want our little town to become? Will we be just be one chain after another soon - I mean, we already have HEB, Subway, and Bill Miller.
Good stuff, but at what price? Small towns are their own identities, and if we aren't careful, we'll just become another offshoot of the city. I guess you have to take the bad with the good. I guess time will tell -
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2 comments:

Jackie said...

I feel the same. It was a necessary, but hard decision (if i'm being honest) to move intotown - the benefits simply outweighed the bad. But to have my quiet little street become loud? To have cars roaring? to lose the sisters and nest feathers and el castillos? I don't know if i can stand it.

8:07 PM
jenn said...

i agree too, there's is something about the quiet of the small town that captures the openness of the country (the out of town) being the country girl that i grew up to be, i love the outside/nature noises and small town noises such as the train (jourdanton is the only town i've lived in where i can't hear the train) and to hear kids outside in the morning waiting for the bus-(or to hear kids at night in the pool:))-the small town things i love. i couldn't sleep when i visited dallas last month. I love that we are getting the conviences of city life, but as you do i don't think the pay off will be that great in the longrun! sigh...

9:20 AM

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