This shows the development of Willoughby, Willowbrook and east Cloverdale since 1984. Note the huge 'compressive housing' development serge that has been allowed to happen by both The City of Surrey and Langley Township over the last decade. Eye opening isn't it?
It looks like some sort of runaway spreading cancer that eats both land and trees...
Now take a look at Brookswood. Contrasting right?
One of the main reasons why we love Brookswood as our community is because of this slow pace - it's because this is the way things should be. It's reasonable, measured, non consuming, non choking, sustainable and traditionally Canadian. It's not all about desperate growth, nor about hordes of people, or about a greater tax base.
The land under Brookswoods is not meant to make money for salivating developers, or to provide extra government revenue or balance government budgets, it is a tranquil place for the present residents to live and rest without fear that the world is going to take it all from you or is going to compress and smother you.
Other countries have filled themselves up with humanity, countries like China, Malaysia and India and even large parts of Europe and South America. This to the tune of, a mind-boggling, 7 Billion people!!
Is this what we are becoming as Canadians? I know it wasn't that way when I was a kid. We didn't have rapid growth, and didn't think about filling our country up with people, and bulldozing it all down to do so.
It's like we have adopted a money-worship-sell-out-your-countrymen type attitude where growth is absolute, and are told that we have to make room for more people to accommodate this way of thinking!
It's like the Canadian way and culture has died and we have adopted the ways and cut-throat methods of some other country.
And for Canadians this is not very polite...
It looks like some sort of runaway spreading cancer that eats both land and trees...
Now take a look at Brookswood. Contrasting right?
One of the main reasons why we love Brookswood as our community is because of this slow pace - it's because this is the way things should be. It's reasonable, measured, non consuming, non choking, sustainable and traditionally Canadian. It's not all about desperate growth, nor about hordes of people, or about a greater tax base.
The land under Brookswoods is not meant to make money for salivating developers, or to provide extra government revenue or balance government budgets, it is a tranquil place for the present residents to live and rest without fear that the world is going to take it all from you or is going to compress and smother you.
Other countries have filled themselves up with humanity, countries like China, Malaysia and India and even large parts of Europe and South America. This to the tune of, a mind-boggling, 7 Billion people!!
Is this what we are becoming as Canadians? I know it wasn't that way when I was a kid. We didn't have rapid growth, and didn't think about filling our country up with people, and bulldozing it all down to do so.
It's like we have adopted a money-worship-sell-out-your-countrymen type attitude where growth is absolute, and are told that we have to make room for more people to accommodate this way of thinking!
It's like the Canadian way and culture has died and we have adopted the ways and cut-throat methods of some other country.
And for Canadians this is not very polite...
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