Urban sprawl

It feels like we should have incredible hunting opportunity and it's just not there.

Is it just the urban sprawl? Is it, I don't know.

What is happening? But I don't feel like I've had straight answers that convince me on what the actual root cause of the problem is.

See, I would go with the urban sprawl right away, I think, because I see it.

It's like more houses.

Where's the game going to live? The mountains, okay.

And so I haven't really seen the differences.

It's kind of just what it is today is kind of how I've known it, you know? Yeah.

Massive, uncontainable sprawl.

We are moving into the geography of fear.

Sprawl is arguably the most insidious, under-discussed factor in urban crime, simply because its effects are structural rather than sensational.

And nowhere exemplifies this structural flaw quite like Houston.

The sheer volume of crime happening within Houston's borders is staggering.

Um, and I'll come back to why I think that's the case, but for me, yes, we talk about sprawls.

Sprawl in WA is, is horrendous.

Um, but what I feel doesn't make an apartment work is, is a lack of amenity.

So you can make an apartment work wherever you want as long as there is amenity there.

And a lot of the land was owned by a wealthy family called the Lambton family.

When the government in the 1950s announced real new towns... because they were, how can we build new towns from Spurge for maybe 50,000, 60,000 people, roughly 20,000 families? And how can we build it in ten years? It was amazing.

The London family sold the land to the Washington Development Corporation at agricultural prices to make it financially stack up.

Would that happen today? Probably not.

Okay.

And – He and his family had bought an old farm, and he recognized Urban Sprawl, worked with his neighbors who'd been there for generations, and they put like, I think it's 40 or 70,000 acres in.

It's 40,000 acres, and it's kind of like in an easement.

They incorporated it.

And I can't blame them for that.

You know, urban sprawl happens.

but you know as time you like like you say it's just it's probably just a a string in your heart that you drive past and you go that used to be a beautiful green cornfield and now it's a four-story apartment building with

no doubt

Oh, not at all.

Raleigh's rapid urban growth means thousands of brand-new houses are going up, and they are just as vulnerable.

Really, brand-new houses?

Oh, yeah.