Anyone else tired of sprawl? (Charlotte, Raleigh: transplants, townhomes, subdivisions)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Anyone else here tired of all the development? I understand it's good for the economy, but they're tearing down old farmhouses, and flattening farm land like there's no tomorrow. The cost outweighs the benefits. I'm up near 98 and it's nuts. We're growing our economy at the cost of our culture and history.
A farm on HWY98, 15 acres, just sold for more townhomes. A friend of a friend of mine just sold a ton of her family's acreage round Leesville for another thousand or so cookie cutter, copy-paste homes.
Our culture is dying in this area. What used to be farmland, cattle, farm outbuildings, rocking chairs, front porches, gardens, ridges and pines is now cookie-cutter subdivisions and Walmarts.
I wouldn't mind if these transplants moved down here and converted to our culture, but most of the time they don't.
They come on down, they drive fast, they can't wait a couple minutes for a local on a tractor to move his bush-hog across the road, they don't wave at you when you wave at them from your porch, they don't say Ma'am or Sir, they complain about how we drive in winter, they honk at you over the smallest inconvenience, and God forbid you drive slow whilst hauling several hundred pounds of chicken feed from Granville county. They'll get their fancy lil' beamer or mercedes right on your tail because wherever it is they're going is so many times more important than what you're doing.
Country ain't country no more. If they don't like how we do life down here, why not head back where they came from? Ain't no one forcing them to live here.
What about natives who like this development? It’s a majority of us in both Raleigh and Charlotte. It’s what we wanted if not what our communities worked and continue to work to achieve.
I don’t like it when people play the “i was born here” card to complain about newcomers. Literally, 30-40 minutes away there are farms and stuff where things literalltnever change and probably will never change other than getting maybe a new Dollar General and a new McDonalds.
Preserving history would be a start. There was a ~150 year old farmhouse 'round here that a local road was named after. Did they bother saving it? Did they put a sign up regarding the historical significance of what used to be here? No, they tore it down.
I don't care if they build houses. Just respect the culture and stop looking down on it/not caring/paving over it.
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