Second Life Land Grab - Bay City #2

I've been thinking more about the Bay City Land grab. It seems like the Lindens struck a nerve and people are really excited about this new land. To me, the difference is in the roads and always having an open side to your land. Up until now it seemed like you could get trapped very easily by a couple of bad neighbors unless you wanted to spend a lot on a big space and waste a lot of it.

Then I was wondering why the Lindens didn't think about this earlier? They've said their initial designs came directly from Snow Crash and as I remember, roads were an integral part of the VR system in the book, so why no roads until now? Seems odd to me, but at least they finally figured it out. Now all they need to do is replicate this land style a few hundred more times and get the prices out of the stratosphere!

For those starting new sims, know that open space is important to a community and greatly affects land prices.

Here is a screen shot of a map that shows how much of this brand new land is up for sale. All the prices are over $200,000L (about $100US) for 1024. Here is a link/slurl for Bay City Imaginario (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bay%20City%20-%20Imaginario/28/70/45) so you can check out those prices for yourself.