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| Feb 27, 2007 5:06 am |
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Lamar, please listen to me....... |
| Althea Garner
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You are a revolutionary.
You have come from the big city (Atlanta) to a small rural town and with you, you bring your big city ideas.
How long is it going to take you to accept that Middletown is not interested in big city concepts?
I hear what you say about Talkshoe, Squidoo, Skype and the like, but Middletown residents and businesses are not developed enough to relate to this technology yet. Yes, they will be, but that time is not now.
Fox, Inc taking office space in Middletown? Uh, no! There is nothing there to attract them and there is nothing there to sustain or maintain them there.
Take the wonderful couple who pioneered the repair of water pump equipment, by driving from farm to farm? Lamar, THIS is Middletown! And this is not a bad thing!
You talk about Middletown being equidistant from San Francisco and Sacramento? Again, no..... There is that mountain to traverse and there are the waterways and the toll bridges. There are also many miles of 2-lane traffic that is a total pain to drive, through Napa Valley. The commute from San Jose to Middletown took me 5 hours and I know that Sacramento to Mountain View can be as much as 6 hours - I know because my son drives it twice a week.
Now add to this the fact that Northern California is 'green'. If people have to drive any distance (5 miles or more in the Bay Area), they are concerned about the effect on the environment. So, Middletown is a dormitory for where? Napa? Santa Rosa? Still, no more than 40 miles away - SF is a lot further than that when you consider the waterways and toll bridges.
My advice to you would be to put the city life and the technology on the back burner for now and concentrate on what Middletown residents want. If you give Middletown what they want, it will succeed, but forcing a square peg into a round hole, will only earn you enemies.
As Middletown is 'green', stick with notions that support healthy living. Telecommuting is a great idea, but it will be short lived, I can assure you.
I went to a lot of time and trouble to research Pitcairn Island, the information of which you have never commented on, nor furthered. For an isolated island community of maximum 200 people in times past, now down to 50, who are still self sufficient and happy, I believe that it has much to offer to Middletown by way of ideas.
It is not your fault, but I have written to your local newspaper and not been published... I have submitted a Press Release which went by the wayside.... I have devoted this web site on Ryze for the benefit of local residents (Middletown) and I am giving of my time, money and energy to visit again in June for the Parade weekend. It would be nice to have Middletown step up to the pump and respond, when so many people from across the world have paid an interest in their community.
Middletown residents...... where ARE you?
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ALTHEA GARNER (Star Real Estate)
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