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We went through Heritage the other day to pick up Las Margaritas and the traffic going the other way was horrendous - a 3/4 mile backup to turn at Rogers. Looks like they are building more stuff up that way as well. What a mess.
Yup. Its nuts. We took the kids to the spiderweb park in Heritage (the big one on Rogers heading to Rolesville) and met a couple as the kids were all playing together.
They moved here from VA at the end of last year, literally saw the house they bought once for 15 minutes (because of the craziness of the market). Moved down sometime later after they had stripped all the land along 98/Heritage Lake.
They went from a house when they saw it the one time they bought it, which was surrounded by forest to a house with literally no forest around them by the time they moved in.
I hope everyone is prepared for the possible changes in quality of life here.
Consider that the Raleigh you know exists because other people, in the 1960s and 1970s and on, welcomed "possible changes in quality of life." Who are we to say that our particular moment is the absolute best one? I, for one, vastly prefer the 2021 version of Wake County to the 1991 version of Wake County that I clearly remember. So do my parents, who moved from California in the 1970s.
People inevitably change, and places inevitably change with them.
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Foreign investors have been buying up these townhomes for the last 3 years that I have been here.
How do you know that they're "foreign investors" and not immigrants who live here? NAR says that "Half of foreign buyers purchased the property for primary residence use."
I see lots of people blaming shadowy "others" for invading our homes -- when, in fact, much of the change that we see is homegrown. 17% of NC's population growth comes from immigration, 51% from "transplants" moving from other states, and 32% from NC native babies.
Consider that the Raleigh you know exists because other people, in the 1960s and 1970s and on, welcomed "possible changes in quality of life." Who are we to say that our particular moment is the absolute best one? I, for one, vastly prefer the 2021 version of Wake County to the 1991 version of Wake County that I clearly remember. So do my parents, who moved from California in the 1970s.
People inevitably change, and places inevitably change with them.
How do you know that they're "foreign investors" and not immigrants who live here? NAR says that "Half of foreign buyers purchased the property for primary residence use."
Exactly. We can adapt and move on or become a place people don't want to live. That never works out.
As far as roads and traffic, people should lobby the DOT and to a lesser extent their local government and ask to have your taxes raised, locally and statewide. No one who is constantly beating the drum for low taxes should ever be allowed to say one word about infrastructure lacking.
I don't know about quality of life, but it makes me sad that it's only going to be rich tech people who can afford to buy houses here, which is what happened in Silicon Valley and the Bay area.
I don't know about quality of life, but it makes me sad that it's only going to be rich tech people who can afford to buy houses here, which is what happened in Silicon Valley and the Bay area.
I bet if you were a rich tech person you'd be signing a different tune.
I don't know about quality of life, but it makes me sad that it's only going to be rich tech people who can afford to buy houses here, which is what happened in Silicon Valley and the Bay area.
As a former non-profit program director who had hundreds of colleagues who fall into this bracket and know that there are THOUSDANDS of others..... I must agree my heart aches a bit knowing that homeownership will dwindle and largely be out of reach for those in that (incredibly important and honorable) career-field and payscale in the coming years compared to very recent history.
Consider that the Raleigh you know exists because other people, in the 1960s and 1970s and on, welcomed "possible changes in quality of life." Who are we to say that our particular moment is the absolute best one? I, for one, vastly prefer the 2021 version of Wake County to the 1991 version of Wake County that I clearly remember. So do my parents, who moved from California in the 1970s.
People inevitably change, and places inevitably change with them.
How do you know that they're "foreign investors" and not immigrants who live here? NAR says that "Half of foreign buyers purchased the property for primary residence use."
I see lots of people blaming shadowy "others" for invading our homes -- when, in fact, much of the change that we see is homegrown. 17% of NC's population growth comes from immigration, 51% from "transplants" moving from other states, and 32% from NC native babies.
But that means the other half are likely renting them out. Don’t worry, they all think it’s the Yankees pushing up them out....They won’t realize who’s buying until they start digging like me. I’m honestly only well aware from living in CA, a people should watch “Million Dollar Shack” on You Tube.
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