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Howard
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As a wise man once said, “change is inevitable”. As much as I would like to see the charm of the “Mexican look” in Mexico remain, change will happen.
Am I offended that in the USA, I can drive around and see influence of the Spanish look, the Asian look, the Scandinavian look? I personally am not
that offended and that is what diversity is all about. Will it go overboard with to much of a modern look in Mexico? Probably so.
Hang me out to dry but the house with the pool look pretty damn nice. Are you sure some of you folks are not a little bit jealous? I am.
Don’t shoot me, I am just the messenger saying that the change will come, it is unavoidable, everywhere! (Didn’t Bob Dylan, sing a song about this,
the “change is in the wind”)
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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JESSE
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I am not against change, i am against stupid change.
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BajaGringo
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It is a very subjective thing. Even the Soup N-zi should know that - some folks love minestrone while others insist on split pea...
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
I am not against change, i am against stupid change. |
"Ugly" is easier to qualify than "Stupid."
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Howard
As a wise man once said, “change is inevitable”. As much as I would like to see the charm of the “Mexican look” in Mexico remain, change will happen.
Am I offended that in the USA, I can drive around and see influence of the Spanish look, the Asian look, the Scandinavian look? I personally am not
that offended and that is what diversity is all about. Will it go overboard with to much of a modern look in Mexico? Probably so.
Hang me out to dry but the house with the pool look pretty damn nice. Are you sure some of you folks are not a little bit jealous? I am.
Don’t shoot me, I am just the messenger saying that the change will come, it is unavoidable, everywhere! (Didn’t Bob Dylan, sing a song about this,
the “change is in the wind”) |
Thank you, Howard, for a breath of reality 
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Paula
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I think the problem with the first group of houses in Jesse's post is one of scale. I can only talk about the places I know, and Tijuana is sadly not
one of them. In Loreto, the houses that have been here a while, and many newer houses built by Mexican people are low and small. But there seems to
be a contest going on among Gringos, and the winner is he who buys the largest lot, and fills it with the most pretentious building. Personally, I
don't get it, as one of the things I like about living here is simplicity.
Are most of the upper group of pictures hotels and b&b's? I see that in the lower group you've shown Casa Leree, which is beautifully and
lovingly restored-- maybe my favorite hotel anywhere, and a hotel in Todos Santos, which is also beautifully re-done.
Some of the new places in Cabo, and all along the coast are just so out of scale with this skinny little piece of land that is Baja that it seems they
may sink the whole peninsula!
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monoloco
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oh, and don't forget it's not Santa Fe either so drop the fake vigas and the Taco Bell facade.
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motoged
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Howard
(Didn’t Bob Dylan, sing a song about this, the “change is in the wind”) |
Howard,
Not quite....Bob asked a range of questions about important issues....and said that the answer(s) is blowing in the wind:
www.lyricsfreak.com/b/bob+dylan/blowin+in+the+wind_20021159....
At another point in time he said that "The Times are a changin"
Just as Jesse suggests...
Close, but no banana 
[Edited on 8-20-2009 by motoged]
Don't believe everything you think....
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duke62
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Okay, I shall enter the fray.
Design/planning is very personal. For example, I cannot stand going up to North County, San Diego, where I grew up, much less drive by the crap they
are putting on the hills between TJ and Ensenada. To me, it just peees me off that both are cheap imitations on a style that is not endemic. By the
way, ever been to Phoenix, Las Vegas?
That being said, I have had the pleasure to see a modernist house in a vineyard in Guadalupe Valley that fit the landscape perfectly. And it was
practical: Huge overhaging roofs to protect from the sun... I could go on.
We inherited a tiny casita in Baja, and all we have done (except bringing it back from the verge of ruin) is put in a back patio to get us out of the
wind coming off the ocean (and keep ants off the guests). Form follows function.
p.s. If there is a Baja endemic style, I would vote for vintage '50's/'60's trailers. Anyone want to start a thread on that? We have a 30' 1955
Spartan on our lot as our guest house.
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