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Originally Posted by JManc
My wife's family is from Forney, TX and the amount of growth just since I've known her is off the charts. Her cousin recently sold their property for millions to the local school district and everything around it has been built up. 20 years ago, it was all ranch land in every direction. Crime has gone up exponentially as well. Rapid growth is not necessarily a good thing. Glad Houston has slowed down somewhat.
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Quality of growth >>>>>>>>> quantity of growth.
Seeing the great Chicagoland cornfield-gobbling sprawl machine finally get kicked squarely in the nuts was by far my favorite aspect of the great recession.
We don't need one more single fucking gram of that endless stroad & cul de sac bullshit around here.