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There are plenty of places to live and when you can't sprawl out you go up.
What does a current resident stand to gain if Guilford county balloons to 1M people. Sure, they can brag about being in a county with 1M people, but that gets old quick. I would rather live in a county with 500,000 people and not deal with traffic and congestion.
The fact is that we live in the south and our nature is sprawl. Its everywhere from Charlotte to Atlanta to Miami. Despite that they are prosperous and great cities. There is a silver lining in sprawl. It encourages the development of mass transit rail projects as cities grow far beyond the urban core. I don't see sprawl as a dirty word. Everything can't be built downtown in high-rises. I think its just a matter of how cities control sprawl and how sprawling developments are planned and designed. There is good sprawl and there is bad sprawl. It just can't be random and look like crap. Greensboro can do both. It can sprawl out and it can promote infill urban development. Not everyone wants to shop and live downtown. But Greensboro needs to provide the option of urban living and retail for those who do want to live in the urban core.
What does a current resident stand to gain if Guilford county balloons to 1M people. Sure, they can brag about being in a county with 1M people, but that gets old quick. I would rather live in a county with 500,000 people and not deal with traffic and congestion.
More amenities. More jobs.
IMO, rural cities are depressed looking, there is a lot to be said for being in the spotlight.
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