You must live somewhere near me, Fortunato--I am also a liberal surburban dwelling resident of the very diverse state of Maryland--and "alarming' is a good word for the rate of growth here--We've been here for three years and it looks a lot different than when we came here--and "Little Boxes on a Hillside" they ain't, at least the little boxes that Malvina Reynolds wrote about were cute (in Daly City, just south of SF), these boxes are big and boring--