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It's sad. I moved to Wake Forest to live in the country, but it's rapidly becoming a city with suburbs full of high-priced homes that the locals can't afford. The people who move into these gated communities seal themselves off from the rest of us, creating little islands of elitism that will probably eventually outnumber traditional communities. Sometimes the big, expensive homes end up next to modest houses that have been there for decades, creating unbalanced communities and erasing their sense of history and tradition. Everyone talks about infill, while the gentrification continues to eat up even more land in what was formerly the countryside. Maybe we need another recession.
It's sad. I moved to Wake Forest to live in the country, but it's rapidly becoming a city with suburbs full of high-priced homes that the locals can't afford. The people who move into these gated communities seal themselves off from the rest of us, creating little islands of elitism that will probably eventually outnumber traditional communities. Sometimes the big, expensive homes end up next to modest houses that have been there for decades, creating unbalanced communities and erasing their sense of history and tradition. Everyone talks about infill, while the gentrification continues to eat up even more land in what was formerly the countryside. Maybe we need another recession.
I live off Louisburg Rd and go to WF often for errands. It is absolutely being destroyed. Sad to see it go from a smaller little town to a place they are clearing forests to literally put up a parking lot.
The only suggestion I can offer is make money off the influx and move far away.
The whole area is being cleared. I swear, there won't be a single patch of woods inside 540 in a few years. Everywhere I look, patches of woods are being cleared along with older homes. More apartment complexes, more parking lots, more suburbia. There's nothing we can do, but at least we still have Umstead. They can never tear that down!
Heading further north would be my advice if you wish to avoid this, and I mean northern Wake County up around Falls Lake and even closer to the town of Creedmoor. Raleigh north of 540 is well-developed, as it's pretty much all suburbia, but it feels more rustic because the entire area is covered under trees. There's really only one shopping center out there, too (intersection of highways 98 and 50). Eastern Chatham County is a bit like this, too. However, it's ironic that I'm persuading folks to move to and populate other areas of the Triangle to avoid areas that are already well-developed.
I live near a $hithole of a small city where "recession" would be a huge understatement to describe the economy here. Trust me, y'all don't want it. I don't disagree with your sentiment about an area being overbuilt and people getting priced out, but to want a recession would be going a bit overboard, imo.
I live near a $hithole of a small city where "recession" would be a huge understatement to describe the economy here. Trust me, y'all don't want it. I don't disagree with your sentiment about an area being overbuilt and people getting priced out, but to want a recession would be going a bit overboard, imo.
Job searching during the recession really was one of the worst points of my life. I don't ever want to live, jobless, through another one of those.
I live near a $hithole of a small city where "recession" would be a huge understatement to describe the economy here. Trust me, y'all don't want it. I don't disagree with your sentiment about an area being overbuilt and people getting priced out, but to want a recession would be going a bit overboard, imo.
Since the communities are too stupid to understand the demands created on them by an influx of transplants, something draconian is required to stop the lemmings from pouring in here to "gentrify" our middle class out of their homes.
That's not gentrification, that's the middle class dying, and it's happening everywhere. People moving here aren't causing it.
There's definitely gentrification happening here - not sure how much of it is caused by people moving here (I sense most people moving here would consider established neighborhoods in Cary/North Raleigh) but it is happening.
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