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...refugee from the highly touted San Diego megacounty, and I left because I disliked the air, noise, traffic, crime and stress of living with 2.2 million other people. I moved to a town of about 300 residents, where I live on 67 acres of land, which includes a barn and a pond teeming with bass and bluegill. To the person who claims life in Southern California is "like being on vacation except you get to live here," I say small-town life is better yet: like being retired, except you get to go to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Franchised Countryside | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...Harvard man, be he freshman or varsity heavyweight, packs up his books and rowing shorts at the end of exams and motors down to Red Top, an elegantly dilapidated series of barn-like structures dotting the shore of the Thames River, decorated in a predictable red and white color scheme...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Harvard-Yale: The Last Race | 6/10/1987 | See Source »

...forward as possible in order to gain ground, feels like the end of the world. In any event, the wind doesn't "sing" through the Aleppo pines in these parts so much as it tries to uproot them (the hardest evidence of its vigor is on the barn's tin roof; but for the weight of a slew of dead tires, nature would snatch away that galvanized hat). Violets grow in the yard year-round and tulips in spring. Off in one direction the Whetstone Mountains glower; in another, the Empire Mountains; in another, the Huachucas; in another, the Dragoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arizona: Books on a Ranch | 5/18/1987 | See Source »

...logging roads. By 7:30 he had showered, and driven his sons Benjamin, 11, and Richard, 4, to school. He ate breakfast with his wife Beverly, and by 8 a.m. was busy at his desk in an office partitioned off in what must have been the hayloft of his barn. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Skid Marks | 5/11/1987 | See Source »

...kids spend all their time in the government-funded Dance Barns numbing their minds on the music and the uncontrolled black market drugs. At home, the "oldies"--and the kids too wacked out even to crawl to the Barn--are watching channel 147, which plays an around the clock, brain washing mixture of snooker, music videos and government advertising. MTV may not bug you now, but just give it a couple years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN LINT: | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

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