Future of Cherry Hill? (Camden, Collingswood: live, moving to, relocate to)

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by brightdoglover

A mega-super suburb, subdivisions with pretentious names, and wall-to-wall chain store shopping and convenience stores and along the main roads.

Now the stores & restaurants have the pretentious names too

[brightdoglover]

I remember thinking, growing up there in the 1950s-1960s, that everyone wished they were really English lords, instead of first-generation Italians and Jews from Philly. Hence, subdivisions named "Charleston Riding" and "Wexford Leas" and the ever-popular naming after things that were destroyed or never there- "Pinecrest Hills" and so on.
My absolutely favorite two bad taste sightings, both on the edge of my home subdivision of Woodcrest:
Taking the back road, Browning Road, that runs past the junior high to Kresson Road - both unpaved when I was growing up!, right out of Woodcrest at the turn is a house that is sort of big. Half of it is decorated in phony French Chalet, and there is line right down the middle and the other half is fake English Tudor.

Up there in the running is an apartment (condo?) complex behind the Woodcrest shopping strip on Browning Lane. Used to be the last gorgeous farm there- long driveway to the house, trees and flowers, fields... Last time I saw it, it was called "Internationale Village." (Gotta have that classy "e"!). One strip was phony Spanish hacienda, one strip phony English Tudor, one strip phony French chalet. Man, it hurts.
My eyes have grown used to my adopted area of eastern Massachusetts, where there is a distinct minimum of such things, probably because the area got built out a long time ago, and there are few large tracts of land. Also, I guess fewer residents are first-generation, and don't seem to want to be English lords.
I have a grudging but minimal affection for the foibles of my growing up. Cherry Hill is a fine place to live, and better for raising kids. I just can't stand it.

[JoeSo]

Originally Posted by brightdoglover

Last time I saw it, it was called "Internationale Village." (Gotta have that classy "e"!). One strip was phony Spanish hacienda, one strip phony English Tudor, one strip phony French chalet.
Cherry Hill is a fine place to live, and better for raising kids. I just can't stand it.

Makes me also think of Marlton along Rt.73...'The Promenades'...

[solibs]

Originally Posted by brightdoglover

I remember thinking, growing up there in the 1950s-1960s, that everyone wished they were really English lords, instead of first-generation Italians and Jews from Philly. Hence, subdivisions named "Charleston Riding" and "Wexford Leas" and the ever-popular naming after things that were destroyed or never there- "Pinecrest Hills" and so on.

To paraphrase a contemporary critic of the suburbs - "every post-war, suburban house follows one of two models - 'the manor in the park' or 'the cabin in the woods'

Meaning that modern development makes no attempt of trying to build a neighborhood much less a community in that every house is meant to stand alone as if none of the others exist.

[Roselvr]

Originally Posted by NatasNJ

I welcome that South Jersey is not filled with the qty & likes of people from North Jersey which would turn it into a cess pool like up there.

How do you figure it isn't?
Most people I know down here are from North Jersey originally, myself included. I know of 5 people that I went to high school with (Union County) that moved to Burlington County.

[StuckPA]

Originally Posted by Roselvr

How do you figure it isn't?
Most people I know down here are from North Jersey originally, myself included. I know of 5 people that I went to high school with (Union County) that moved to Burlington County.

So there's probably just that group of the 5 of you
I know maybe 1 other person besides myself from the central/north Jersey area that somehow ended up in Philly also

[Roselvr]

Originally Posted by StuckPA

So there's probably just that group of the 5 of you
I know maybe 1 other person besides myself from the central/north Jersey area that somehow ended up in Philly also

That was just people I went to school with.
I meet many people that come from North jersey, a lot of my neighbors were from some part of North Jersey.

[solibs]

I've lived in this area for about 10 years now. I'd say that almost 1/2 the people I know/have met here are from New Jersey. A handful have been from anywhere north of New Brunswick. Another handful have been from Mercer/Monmouth/Ocean. Everyone else is from South Jersey.

I lived in Voorhees and then Collingswood and even then I only met a few people who weren't from South Jersey or Pennsylvania and most of that was because I was at Rutgers.

[MoorestownResident]

You're also talking about the heart of SJ in Camden County where generations of people stay and never leave the area for long. Camden County has more hardcore folk than Burlington. People from North Jersey don't relocate to Collingswood, they relocate to the 1-2 acre lot community burbs found in Burlington County. I once lived next to a couple from Long Island in BC.

[StuckPA]

Originally Posted by MoorestownResident

You're also talking about the heart of SJ in Camden County where generations of people stay and never leave the area for long. Camden County has more hardcore folk than Burlington. People from North Jersey don't relocate to Collingswood, they relocate to the 1-2 acre lot community burbs found in Burlington County.

That was my point