Originally Posted by greatbasin

So why is it that deregulation in urban areas is supposed to generate flakes and fairies, while unregulated rural areas consistently produces people that cling to God and guns?
Isn't what made Marin county attractive and valuable not the cultural manure of Bohemian culture, but the way they managed to get the federal government to lock up most of the land in national and state parks, preserves, and reservations, blocking any kind of development so that the value of the limited supply of developable land skyrocketed resulting in gentrification and the almost total exclusion of anything resembling poor people?