Growing up was all about (one -up -men –ship), about your toys versus my toys. My car is newer that your car. My mom cooks better than your mom. My dad's tougher than your Dad. My house is bigger than your house. My parents bought a boat and a Motor home. So it went day after day until we grew up, went to college, got a job had the opportunity to buy our first home.
“Not much”, we said about our “Starter Home” but it will get better. Our next house will be bigger. IT WAS! We had kids, needed yet a bigger house and a better community with better schools. IT WAS! We stumbled upon a home Melbourne Beach, a quiet decent community with pretty good homes. Maybe not what we had dreamed of but by now we began to realize it may never be any bigger so we agreed to settle for a little less house and a lot better community.
We worked and we saved and we bought that Home in Melbourne Beach. NOT the biggest house on the block. We still looked and longed for one just a little bigger. A little bit better! A few more amenities! A bigger pool, Maybe next year! A new patio with a built in stainless steel BBQ! An outdoor kitchen complete with frig! Don't forget that expensive wooden playground! Imagining our version of the biggest and best house on the block.
Still, we looked longingly at the big houses on our block or somebody else’s block. Someday, we dreamed, we could build a bigger one on our little 50’ Lot. A bigger house would be ours if we were patient.
How many of us would actually want to move into a smaller house? (Move down the ladder of home ownership?) ( NEVER!) (At least not until we became so old and decrepit we could no longer deal with the work it requires).
No, we dreamed BIG and we dreamed BETTER. Best of all we dreamed about being able to continue to live in a community like Melbourne Beach. What a great place to live, Melbourne Beach!
One fact still remained we owned the house. It was ours and now worth double $$ or triple $$$ the amount we paid. We smiled at our good fortune!
It was ours! We bought it! We paid for it.! We paid the taxes on it! We maintained it! We improved it!
We were proud of our little house and our little community. Everything was going great. Every year our property values increased as did our taxes. Our community was thriving getting more and more exclusive. We rallied in this exclusivity. We lauded it over our poorer neighbors in the unspeakable PALM BAY. We boasted about our excellent schools, our fantastic parks, our special Christmas parade, our historic Pier.
We raised money to preserve our historic structures. We spoke openly to each other about how lucky we were to live in this unique beach-side community. How the unfortunate " others" were not able to live the free lifestyle of our quaint beach community.
Melbourne Beach was the "cat's meow!'THE' place to live!
Where the elite meet to eat!
Property values began to rise. People were watching! People were listening. You were somebody special if you lived in Melbourne Beach, “Brevard’s oldest Beach Community” we boasted to each other.
We made this one of the most special and attractive places to live in the State of Florida. Our property values rose. We smiled like the cat who ate the canary!!!! We smiled at our special status as a resident of Melbourne Beach.
When asked “where do you live”, we smugly replied, Melbourne Beach and you?
We had something special. We had something someone else coveted. The same way we once coveted the biggest house on the block. We didn’t have the biggest house but we lived in Melbourne Beach and that was even better. We didn’t need the biggest house anymore.
Much to our satisfaction all that hard work and all that saving really began to pay off.
Our property became so valuable we could now have the biggest house on the block!
Unfortunately, it could not be in Melbourne Beach. We were sad but after all wasn’t the biggest house on the block our goal since childhood? Did it matter what neighbor hood the biggest house was built in?
So, some of use sold our coveted land for bigger and better horizons. We left our perfect Community. We could after all now build the biggest house on someone else’s block. That was enough for us to leave Melbourne Beach and move on to our dream home.
(Little did we know the "others" had the same dream )
Your neighbors we selling for big $$$$$ so much money. You decided to sell too but for just a little MORE money. After all you couldn’t let your old neighbor build a bigger house than yours could you? Even if it was going to be somewhere else!
And so it went day after day. home after home after home each one selling for a bit more than the previous until all of the sudden...
BAM! POP! CRASH! those that did not sell were left with the realization………..
(Move to Stage Right)
Little Red Riding Hood who bought around the around the corner had ideas too.!
They too wanted the biggest house on the block!
They to wanted exclusivity too!
They wanted to have the biggest house on the block in Melbourne Beach.
And So...
The Little Red Riding Hoods came knocking at your door offering you a chance to have the biggest house on the block but just not here in Melbourne Beach.
The Little Red Riding Hoods wanted your little house and your land.
And
They had enough money to pay your price. Isn’t that all you cared about to begin with?
The only problem is now you no longer have the biggest or best house on the block. Your taxes are up. Your power is diminished.
And....
The Little Red Riding Hoods are moved in right across the street and built a bigger and better house. Paying more taxes. Gaining more power.
And now you are mad? Aw! PoorBoy
Don’t be mad at your Little Red Riding Hood!
Be mad at yourself!
They didn’t create this beautiful community!
They didn’t boast about their exclusivity!
All They did was listen to you!
They believed in you!
The Little Red Riding Hoods like you , were once kids who dreamed about having the biggest house on the block.
They also wanted to be in the best community in Florida .
The only difference between The Little Red Riding Hoods and you is now They can afford the biggest house on the block in Melbourne Beach and YOU CAN"T!
They didn't like the BIG BAD WOLF!
Now you are just a "little bad wolf".
Better take the money and run to the nearest place or
move on to a new community where you can once again become the
Biggest Baddest Wolf in your new community.
Where you can still build the biggest baddest bullies house on the block!!!!
Make your dream come true or create your nightmares somewhere else!
Hopefully, somewhere a few outspoken little bad wolves will not try to stop you from building your biggest baddest dream home, where a few outspoken little wolves will not claim to be the majority, where a few outspoken jealous malcontent - ed little bad wolves will not try to limit your right to build on your land regardless of the size of your lot.
The same land you paid for. The same land you paid the taxes on. The same land you paid the upkeep and maintenance for. You improved it. You should have the right to build the dream home you have always wanted. On the land you own. No one should be allowed to take that away just because they are little bad wolves.
move on to a new community where you can once again become the
Biggest Baddest Wolf in your new community.
Where you can still build the biggest baddest bullies house on the block!!!!
Make your dream come true or create your nightmares somewhere else!
Hopefully, somewhere a few outspoken little bad wolves will not try to stop you from building your biggest baddest dream home, where a few outspoken little wolves will not claim to be the majority, where a few outspoken jealous malcontent - ed little bad wolves will not try to limit your right to build on your land regardless of the size of your lot.
The same land you paid for. The same land you paid the taxes on. The same land you paid the upkeep and maintenance for. You improved it. You should have the right to build the dream home you have always wanted. On the land you own. No one should be allowed to take that away just because they are little bad wolves.
It’s called progress. It’s called change. The only really sure thing in life is change and death.
I doubt The Little Red Riding Hoods want their dream homes devalued by condos and high rises either. I think they like this peaceful exclusive community of Melbourne Beach and will not let that change.
It’s not the size of the house that makes it a home.
It’s not the size of the house that makes the community a great place to live.
It’s the people inside the house.
Melbourne Beach will always be the greatest place on earth to live.
Time marches on and time changes everything.
Either come along for the ride or get off the bus.
There is only one BIG BAD WOLF in Melbourne Beach and he hangs around with a lot of little wolves in training.
The Little Red Riding Hoods did not create the chaos in our Town
All they did was build homes and expose the BIG BAD WOLF.
Spend some time looking at the real problems facing each and everyone in Melbourne Beach.
Big BAD houses are not the problem. Taxes are not the issue. The problem is the BIG BAD WOLF and all those testy little bad wolves that are destroying Melbourne Beach
Focus on preserving your rights not taking away your neighbors rights because if you take away your neighbors rights you lose your own.
The little Red Riding Hoods remember how the story ends!
Maybe the Big Bad Wolves and all the little baby bad wolves should read the story.
Didn't you learn anything from "Little Red Riding Hood" ?
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