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35. They pay a shitload for those farms to turn them into rows of boxes.

The land my house is on was a farm. Brown's Farm. It's all houses now.

Interestingly, there's a spot in Columbia, MD (the original Rouse cancer, well, in conjunction with Reston, VA) that is going to be worth a fortune in another fifty-some years. It's a vast tract of open farm land on Rt. 175 just east of Rt. 29. The will of the owner specifically restricted the sale and use of the property for 99 years (maximum allowed) to non-residential use only. They parked a city in the middle of farm fields, in both cases. Unfortunately, there is a "non-residential" complex there now: http://maps.yahoo.com/#q=Columbia%2C+MD&conf=1&start=1&lat=39.224989446576636&lon=-76.839280128479&zoom=16&mvt=h&trf=0

I grew up on Thunder Hill Rd. (to the right side) and there's open space there also. I don't know why it hasn't been abused but it's a good thing.