There is great deal of difference between the USA "New England" thought mentality and the "Western" big-sky-view.

The vast majority of the USA population was spawned and stayed on the East Coast...they have walls and enjoy mending them, as Mr. Frost implied. (Think England/new)

Woodstock, was a momentary aboration that caught most East-Coasters by surprise. It was never repeated.

Western mentality has brought us the repeated - year after year experience of "Burning Man."

In the western USA you are not bound by generations of Hawthorn-ish heirs and all their tripping guilt, town commissioners, and centuries of regulations.

The USA is a big, Big, BIG, place (and filled with a lot, Lot, LOT, more people than Australia.) West of the Missippi, if you can imagine it, you can Do It...."Lightning Ranch," "Georgia O'Keefe," "Bill Gates."

Most folk in the Western USA, live and die a long, Long, LONG ways from where they were born.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Return on capital investment is a major motivating (POSITIVE) factor in the USA. We do not hold to restrictions, that an event held for 30 years has become a "tradition" and should be protected. Given the most recent S. Court ruling - Municiple TAX BASE should over-power the land-holder's rights. Slowly, the USA is becoming more like the UK, decade by decade.