7 Quotes by Ed Ratledge

Right now, I would have to classify Kent County as the fastest growing county in the state, percentage-wise.

You ever see those pictures of an anaconda that's just swallowed a deer? That's what you have with the baby boomers. We've had to digest them over the years.

As they age over the years, they forced us to build schools all over the place. Then you had to build houses for them, and now we're going to have to build health care facilities for them. Everything they do is of such a scale that you have to pay attention to it.

People use it for everything from trying to build a road, deciding on a prison almost any kind of public purpose like that.

Are they all going to sit back and play shuffleboard, or are they going to be riding their Harleys around? Are they going to be active or are we going to have to pay big for their health care? There are a number of conundrums there.

That's what really determines what the quality of life is there.

There's all sorts of other reasons, but those are the primary ones that make all of the counties in Delaware a positive for people wanting to lower their cost of living.