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When you're ready to sell, let me know. (If you haven't already done so.) We're looking to move to Apex in the near future.
We rent in Apex; sorry. I wouldn't sell any decent person this house though. It was built in the late 90's by Pulte homes and is the biggest example of shoddy construction I've ever seen. When we quickly sold our house in South Raleigh for a lowball price to an agency (it's a long story, but basically, it was a nice house in a really not nice part of town), we decided to move to Apex because that's where our kids went to school (crazy wake county school bussing). Since we were making a quick move, we just rented the first house we could find that was at least 1800 sq ft with at least 4 bedrooms, and planned on buying later. Then, our plans changed and we have since decided that we will be moving back to NY this summer after my oldest graduates from Apex High.
According to the stats, Wake County's boom started in earnest in the 1970's, possibly even the mid 1960's. The thing is that the projections for Wake County's future population have always been way too conservative. If anything, the future growth of the area will be even more robust than projected. Expect the area to become the new Northern Virginia, a Mid-Atlantic haven for northerners who don't want to move to Florida because they don't want to move far from home and want four distinct seasons and lower housing costs.
That plus....all of the people from Florida who who want the same thing without moving all the way back north. The triangle will make NoVa look like golf course community (in size) in a few decades.
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Originally Posted by shaylahc
I agree with this. We came in 1998 and we are "getting out" now, mostly due to our dissatisfaction with the school system. Also we feel it's getting much, much more crowded than it used to be. Even Apex--when we moved this way in 2001 from Cary, Apex felt very small townish, I always felt like I lived out in the country I live off of Olive Chapel and it was uncommon to see another car on that road. Now the traffic is getting much heavier due to all the new retail establishments popping up. It doesn't feel quiet and rural here anymore.
I think your predictions are accurate. I think things ARE peaking, and it's the schooling situation that is going to bring everything to a screeching halt. People in my neighborhood are furious about the year round schools, there is no effort to halt the uncontrolled growth, and I think you will see a backlash coming really soon as people get fed up with the overcrowding and the local government's way of dealing with it.
I agree 100%. I also live off olive chapel, in the "boonies" of apex (hollands crossing, the farthest west subdivision in Apex). And now that they are doing that consturction at the intersection of Olive Chapel and Kelly Road.....it's a nightmare. I am leaving mostly to be near family, but I have to say the school situation and the uncontrolled growth do get to you after a while. My two oldest going to 2 different high schools is just ridiculous. I have to say that I do like Apex much better than all of the other areas of wake county I've lived in (N. Raleigh, Cary, and South Raleigh), and I really do find it sad that almost overnight this once close-knit small town is changing into the next cary. Beaver Creek is HUGE, that movie theatre is only the beginning, and it was the first step in the true transformation of Apex into another Cary. Keep in mind, I've only lived in Apex for about a year and a half, and it's already drasticaly different.
ABSOLUTELY100% observations ... I'd consider another area/part of country....we are planning our move out of here
There are so many other parts of the country that would fit most people Ideals more than NC but people just follow the masses, it is like they here, NC is a great place to live and they follow, it is a pretty state, but for us more cons than pros. It will become what they are leaving, but because so many cannot see it or are in denial they will just keep coming.
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