When we read this article, we could keep silent no longer. That question should have been considered a long time ago. We could have saved the city a lot of money. The next thing to do is throw away Rebecca Ryan's book and her seven indexes.

We know our young adults are mature physically, but we question their ideas being, in good judgment, mature adult ideas.

The slogans being used - such as "We could live anywhere" - give you the clues that raise that question. Of course we can live anywhere, but to follow that slogan with "Live First, Work Second" doesn't make common sense. How can you live if you don't have a job? You are going to be homeless and on the street begging for food unless you have moved back into your old home town and have family support for yourself.

We were born too young to remember the depression era, but our folks lived through it and we heard their stories. They were not easy stories to hear sometimes, because they told about not having money to put food on the table and going to bed hungry, putting cardboard in shoes that had holes in the soles, babies dying, people dying because of no money to go to a doctor.

It was a wife's place to go with her husband to wherever his job was and to raise the children. People living during the depression knew how important a job was. Back then, there was usually just enough jobs available for only one member of the family so a woman's job at home was very important to a family's survival.

The next catch slogan in that article was, "We believe that keeping the spirit of 'We could live anywhere' is important, and that there is value to sharing why people love to live, work and play here." Play here?" Kids play, adults work. How about saying, "We should want to work, live and raise our family in Hutchinson?" That is more in "keeping with the spirit" to us.

We have a wonderful community to live in! It used to be written on our water tower: "Come Share Our Space." All ages working and sharing our lives together regardless of age differences. Now that is a community people want to live in!

We have wonderful young neighbors on our street who watch out for us during ice storms, snowstorms, etc. because of our age and health problems. They know we really need help at those times. Those young neighbors of ours are what makes this a "cool community" to live in. That's why we like to live in Hutchinson. People care about each other.