>I was just driving home, passing a woodsy area near here, when a fox ran across the road not 25 yards in front of me. Despite the occasional woods, this is suburbia. In 20 years of living in Chicago and suburbs this is the first fox I have seen. It darted off into the woods.
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>So was this some kind of an omen? ;-) And if so, what kind?

Over here the countryside is becoming so regimented that foxes are migrating into the cities where they can find richer pickings in bins.

I've seen more foxes since I moved back to London than I saw in 13 years in the countryside