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about the natural environment. We both agree that city people are generally less likely to appreciate the wildness of nature-they’re more apt to see everything from lady bugs to black bears as pests to be controlled or exterminated, whereas country people are more likely to live and let live (though most everyone draws the line at copperheads under the porch).
If people don’t know our native plants, they plant shrubs and flowers that don’t grow well here. Some homebuilders cause erosion by cutting down too many trees on wooded slopes, and then they try to grow a suburban lawn in our rocky soil.
Bruce says he made some mistakes like that when building his own house. He had a contractor from outside the county build a typical suburban home that was bigger than he needed and didn’t fit the site very well. He wishes he hadn’t tom down that fine old bam on the place. But he’s cleared and restored the old stone wall with the help of Bobby Smith, a local handyman who really knows how to build 'em. And I think he appreciates rural people and the rural way of life more than he did when he came.
I can’t really blame Bruce or other newcomers for their “mistakes.” It stands to reason that suburban people are gonna bring with them suburban attitudes and expectations for services and amenities. They don’t think in advance about hauling their trash to the dump or maintaining their long access roads or surviving power outages during winter snowstorms.
It generally takes newcomers about five years, by my
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