I pretty much agree with you, Carol. Very perceptive analysis. When a neighborhood develops into a small town, some people are not pleased. When a small town develops into a large town, a lot of people are not pleased. Some are so distressed about it that they move away and don't come back. In other words, Mudcat is just like real life, except, of course, it's happening on a computer screen.

My town of Orillia is likely to mutate into a much larger place in the next 10 years (as did Barrie before it), and I'm not looking forward to that very much at all. I like it the way it was 5 years ago, before WalMart and the casino came here.

- LH