How sad...get real!

The Summit · Post by **The Summit** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:47 pm

This photo in todayâ€™s Star show a sad father and his sad children. Do these kids even know why they are sad?

Interesting story and yes, it's always kind of sad to be kicked out of your home. Letâ€™s say your house is backed up against a freeway that you can see from you living room. This freeway is at gridlock at least twice a day and is getting progressively getting worse every year.

Didn't see it coming. Yea right. Serves this guy right for moving to Kansas from KCMO for "better schools" like there are no good schools in Missouri. I moved from OP to LS for "better schools" and a better deal on a home.

Cute pic though!

Road project would take 15 homes
By BRAD COOPER
The Kansas City Star

â€œThere's never a good time for this to happen, but there are a lot of people who have just put a lot of money in their houses. To me, it just seems like a waste if they're going to tear it down.â€

QueSi2Opie · Post by **QueSi2Opie** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:07 pm

Guess we lucked out, we're on the South side of I-435 next to those woodlands by 69 & I-435. Those homes are across the Interstate from us.

phxcat · Post by **phxcat** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 12:01 am

What the hell kind of an idiotic comment is that? Serves the guy right for moving from KCMO to JoCo for better schools? What does that have to do with it? If he had moved from KCMO to Lee's Summit for better schools and bought a house backed up against an interstate, he would be facing the same situation in a few years.

Think before you write.

Post by **dangerboy** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:04 am

Don't think it really matters what city/state he moved to, because it happens everywhere. The key here is that he bought a house next to a congested freeway without the forethought of considering that it might be expanded. It's really the same thing as the people who move into the exurbs and then freak out when the cow pasture next to their subdivision gets paved over for more houses.

StL_Dan · Post by **StL_Dan** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 10:21 am

dangerboy wrote:Don't think it really matters what city/state he moved to, because it happens everywhere. The key here is that he bought a house next to a congested freeway without the forethought of considering that it might be expanded. It's really the same thing as the people who move into the exurbs and then freak out when the cow pasture next to their subdivision gets paved over for more houses.

yup

The Summit · Post by **The Summit** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 2:18 pm

I was being facetious people, don’t take it so personal! A little on edge are we?

Post by **dangerboy** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 2:19 pm

The Summit wrote:I was being facetious people, donâ€™t take it so personal! A little on edge are we?

Gotta be careful with sarcasm on the Internet, buddy. Text comes across literally.

TheDude · Post by **TheDude** » Tue Nov 18, 2003 4:41 pm

what kind of dumb ass wants to live in a house backed up to a freeway anyhow?? the reason she got a "bargain" is cause instead of countin' sheep, she gets to count semi's rollin' by all night long! anyhow, taking out 20 crappy built suburban homes is good for the environment--they would probably only last another 5 years anyhow.

from brookside--out.

Post by **bahua** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 7:28 pm

I have relatives in Western Springs, IL. Their house is about 3 miles from I-294, and all day, every day, you can always hear the rumble of the highway from their house. I have a friend whose grandmother lives in Bensenville, IL, directly beneath the main landing approach to O'Hare. The house shakes every 5 minutes, with a 747 flying 300 feet overhead.

Why do people live in these places!? If they can afford to buy a nice house(these are nice houses) buy one somewhere else!

fire4725 · Post by **fire4725** » Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:53 pm

poor babies

gonna lose they homes

DanCa · Post by **DanCa** » Thu Nov 20, 2003 11:53 am

Out here in the L.A. area, houses are much closer to freeways than in KC. People literally have a brick wall seperating their back yard from the shoulder. And when they widen freeways, they buy up what they need to, knock it down and start paving. I'd certainly never buy anything that backed up to a freeway. Plus I'd think pollution levels would be worse. But the freeways here have high sound barrier walls that block a lot of the sound.