Dear Editor,
I am old enough to remember a time when at least 75 per cent or more of the houses in our neighbourhood put-up Christmas lights and neighbours would invite each other to parties and sometimes exchange gifts.
I took a walk through our neighbourhood streets last night and there was one stretch of almost three blocks where there wasn’t a single strand of lights to be seen.
Seems the illuminating spirit of Christmases past is close to disappearing altogether from Richmond’s residential neighbourhoods, and the unlighted spirit of Christmas future is taking over.
This is just one example of many that give clear evidence of how our culture is being negatively affected by the proliferation of these unoccupied mega houses, and for those who might not have a problem with being surrounded by empty, dark buildings.
I wish you a happy, albeit quiet, neighbourless, dissociated, and isolated holiday!
Ray Arnold
Richmond
