The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.
Not trying to be weird or anything, but the smell of manure is one of the most important parts of the rural experience. But try explaining that to real estate parasites…
There was a rural town where I grew up that had roots in ranching. Everyone had horse corrals. It got big enough to incorporate into a city and started to grow quickly, but the new incoming residents started complaining about the horse manure smell.
So the city council passed a law that says basically the manure was here before you were. Get over it.
Did you know that Alfred Krupp, one of the guys responsible for the arms race that led to World War 1, absolutely loved the smell of horse manure? He loved it to a point where he built a house designed so he could always smell it. Wild stuff.
How do you design a house to smell like horse shit, aside from filling the walls with it?
I vaguely remember something about him building a horse barn with a well furnished bedroom in what would normally be the hay loft, with a big hole in the floor for the smellz to waft through.
The eternal issue, people see these rural areas and go “Oh how quaint! Lets live here!”. Then they proceed to destroy the very things that attracted them. “Oh, these farms are smelly, and these animals are noisy. Can’t have that.” Lets move to the woods and cut all the trees down, then move to the desert and suck all the water up to force the landscape to look like a golf course.
I remember a comedian said "Real estate developments are named after the thing they destroyed when they built it, like “Beaver Creek” or “Oak Woods”.
For those who don’t know: on the island of Maui- known for it’s lush green central valley of sugar cane waving in the breeze- a bunch of real esnake developers began complaining about their fake paradise getting covered in ash from the nighttime controlled burns by the sugar cane company (about 160 years old)…see, they had built right in the path of the wind.
Long story short, they bribed the officials and won. Now Maui is a brown, unattractive desert with uncontrolled wildfires instead of controlled fires with irrigation sprinklers.
Maui is going to die.
This is ludicrously incorrect. Everything is back to being green now, unless it was a desert zone to begin with.
I remember when the rich people moved up from NY and NJ to Maine to live in all those quaint seaports then they complained about the smell from the docks and such because of the people who dared to work as lobstermen and fishermen instead of lawyers. Maine finally got sick of it and passed laws protecting the working seaports.
Then the rich folks bought the pretty islands off of the coast and complained about the foghorns that are part of the protection system for boats. So now they don’t sound unless you have a device that triggers them. Part of the beauty of the seacoast, hearing the foghorns, is now gone because some millionaire needs to be coddled.
What was the alternative?
Farms and other such places getting shut down by newly built housing developments.
Ahh the old Let me move to country side and get upset by local things so I change everything. Then later move again when it was just like where I started.
Go to any popular national park where they cram development right up to the entrance. “What a lovely place, let’s build the fuck out of it.”
