I would rather be out in the country again and have to travel a little farther for services. I lived in the town of turtle. The taxes were low, the services the town provided were high, the roads were in very good shape and no water and sewer bills.. In contrast to the Village of clinton where I live now. The taxes are out of control, over $32 per thousand for the mill rate. The water is horrible, and horrible expensive. The services provided are low and the roads/sidewalkes are in terrible condition. I will say the Police Department does a great job...

My heart aches for all the memories of the country. Now there either strip malls or wasteful housing developments.

The biggest drawback would be the expense of having to drive into town for all the unneeded conveniences. Hmmm, I do remember stories from the past about people having to travel once a month to get things they couldn't grow or make.

People are more interested in making money than preserving what we have. Every development should be made to be less wasteful. Without the farmers and their land we will not be able to survive for long. Have you seen the movie "Soylent Green?"

I am against people building luxury houses in the country. For one, the house does become an eyesore, and two,they make themselves look as if they are not willing to become part of the local community.

STOP THE URBAN SPRAWL!!!

I do have a clue, believe it or not. I grew up in the country and as an adult I bought a home in the city. In fact, I grew up in a township where you had to have 30 acres of land to build a home. This was the townships way of protecting land from sprawl. I don't agree with sprawl. But I get awfuly sick of people complaining about it who buy a 1/2 acre lot in an area that has plans for further development (this happens a lot). If I wanted to build a home and be in the country and protect the land around me from development, I would find anyway I could to buy up a bunch of land around me, whether the land is for farming or wildlife. That way the only my land could be taken is via imminent domain.

I'm city folk and I've never understood the complaints of those from town moving to the country and then all the complaining! Stay in town!

I am amazed of the comments about how people coming out to the country are ruining it for those out there.
Come on folks, if your out there then you are part of the problem.
...and this issue of urban sprawl and city people moving out there. Just where do you think that they are getting the land to build on, from those that are already there. If you don't want this then quit going for an easy buck ($) and selling the land to them.

some of the city people who have moved to the 'country' are the biggest draw back we've seen. at a town board meeting a couple of years ago, a townsperson who had moved there about 10 years before said that the township had to stop growth! the town chairman, local farmer, agreed but added it should have been stopped 11 years ago. our childern are sixth generation on this land, their childern will be the seventh, and we dont appreciate it when someone from the city thinks we dont care for the land and water and Our childern. when a farmer owns his land, its not just his, its the family's farm, from as far back as it came into the family to a far ahead as anyone can hope.

the biggest draw back for me is that i live 8 miles from Janesville and 8 miles from Evansville off of hwy 14 and there isn't any where to run quick and get milk or a burger...Maybe someone should sell some farm land for a quick mart out here.

The biggest drawback to living in rural Rock County is that there is less and less of it. When the housing market comes back it'll be a good time to move a little farther out.

w8nc: You obviously haven't much of a clue....I'm not that old; however I can remember as a child when Milton Ave was actually still HWY 26 and country not city of Janesville. Not to mention Rockport Road, or the subdivisions out HWY 11....oh wait WalMart...you can't control what others do so no matter what you will always have someone in your back yard. You can research until you're blue in the face, do you really think folks who built homes 50 years ago expected the urban sprawl?

For the 6% who voted for the smell and noise....HELLO its country, farm, farm = animals and machinery = smell and noise....city folks movin to the country to think its all roses and quiet need to move back to town where they belong....or better yet DO RESEARCH.

As with everything else in our space-crunched, over-used, and continually material-wasting society....existing residential and commercial building lands can be reused, recycled and reinvigorated. But this will only happen WHEN and IF people - and companies - could learn to revere, respect and give care to our shared cultural history, as well as, its future.

If you don't want people living in your back yard, why not buy more land? This way you have more control over what is done with the land AND you don't have neighbors (if you don't want them). Also, shouldn't you research the land around you BEFORE you buy a home? This way you can see what the plans are for the land ahead of time instead of moving to the country and then complaining when the city moves toward your home (eventhough plans to expand were in the works for years).

seconded: stop the sprawl!!!

The biggest drawback for us is the encroaching city limits into our backyard.
STOP THE URBAN SPRAWL!!!