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re: If growth is so good, why don’t affluent areas want it?
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:28 pm to weagle1999
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:28 pm to weagle1999
Affluent areas look like this. At least here in middle Tennessee. High density projects that have a school or schools in the neighborhood, a grocery store, restaurants, liquor store, etc.
One well-known affluent area in my ton of Franklin is Westhaven - 3500 houses on 1500 acres. Average price is $1.3 million or so.
One well-known affluent area in my ton of Franklin is Westhaven - 3500 houses on 1500 acres. Average price is $1.3 million or so.
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Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:46 pm to JimEverett
One of Louisiana's finest lives in Franklin, now. Shreveport native Kenny Wayne Shepard lives there, now.
Franklin is still one of my favorite spots in the USA.
Franklin is still one of my favorite spots in the USA.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:48 pm to weagle1999
If "diverse communities" are so good, why do most successful blacks move to white neighborhoods?
Posted on 5/19/26 at 2:51 pm to weagle1999
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What will those DR Horton shitboxes be like in 80 years?
The construction of my childhood home in Slidell was appalling by today's standards. It's still there.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:01 pm to VoxDawg
quote:I guess the answer could be "to gain more diversity in affluent neighborhoods."
If "diverse communities" are so good, why do most successful blacks move to white neighborhoods?
I certainly do not think that diversity, in end of itself, is even remotely a bad thing. I neither view it as something which should be sought, nor avoided.
Close admixtures of income diverse neighbors becomes more problematic, either in terms of "gentrification," in the case of advancing neighborhoods, or in declining property values in the opposite circumstance..
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:14 pm to CastleBravo
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Now I live in a house on a hilly conifer forested 3 acre plot 10 miles from a small/medium sized town.
People like you are the problem with the countryside being ruined. It's the proliferation of small 'ranchettes' like yours that are destroying states like Montana. Far better for people to live in cities rather than chew up the rural landscape with endless numbers of ranchettes.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:16 pm to weagle1999
It's a basic neighborhood.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:27 pm to MontanaTiger
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People like you are the problem with the countryside being ruined.
It's the proliferation of small 'ranchettes' like yours that are destroying states like Montana.
Far better for people to live in cities rather than chew up the rural landscape with endless numbers of ranchettes.
"Confine yourself to a urban hell hole"
This is a terrible take.
I don't want to live in a city any more. I don't like crowded spaces. I find it to be a soulless existence.
I am enjoying "the countryside". I think everyone should be able to do it.
Most people who complain about "places being ruined" already live someplace nice and just want to pull up the ladder after them.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:27 pm to weagle1999
My father ended up on a cul-de-sac in a really nice Panhandle golfing community but always yearned for a plot with a big shop in Crestview. My mother wouldn't permit it.
My sister thinks her boys have it made also living in golf communities in NC.
I'm the outlier, living on a farm. Fishponds, trails, shop with a lift, shooting range. I haven't made it back to what Grandpa had in Natchitoches Parish, but I've done alright.
Buy land baws. More and more land. And live on it. You'll be glad you did the older you get.
My sister thinks her boys have it made also living in golf communities in NC.
I'm the outlier, living on a farm. Fishponds, trails, shop with a lift, shooting range. I haven't made it back to what Grandpa had in Natchitoches Parish, but I've done alright.
Buy land baws. More and more land. And live on it. You'll be glad you did the older you get.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:29 pm to Zach
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That's similar to where our vets lived when they returned from WWII to marry their sweetheart.
Or an Army base.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:40 pm to MontanaTiger
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People like you are the problem with the countryside being ruined.
People gotta live somewhere.
Most rural places CANNOT subdivide to residential (three acres or less).
If it's happening around you then your civic leaders are allowing it. You need to direct your anger to them instead of some random person on the internet.
It's likely the three acres this guy purchased was subdivided many years ago to a family member of someone who owned a much larger plot.
LIghten up Francis.
This post was edited on 5/19/26 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:44 pm to weagle1999
welcome to levittown!
this is what are boy's fought the nazi's for!
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just because something happened before you were born kid, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
this is what are boy's fought the nazi's for!
just because something happened before you were born kid, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:46 pm to weagle1999
It's called REVENUE. Revenue helps local roads, businesses, quality of life, schools, etc etc etc.
If you had a business that sold 100 widgets and you made $100 profit off each widget, you could sell 1,000 widgets and make 100,000 profit.
it's the same concept.
If you had a business that sold 100 widgets and you made $100 profit off each widget, you could sell 1,000 widgets and make 100,000 profit.
it's the same concept.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:49 pm to weagle1999
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the track homes and apartments that are flooding the South are such a good thing
That alone isn't the cause of problems.
The trouble comes when you fill these homes with low trust people.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:50 pm to FLTech
Homebuilders do not make money by not building homes.
The "how dare you" society cracks me up.
They bitch about rising housing prices simultaneous to bitching about increasing housing supply.
Evidently, we aren't increasing the housing supply fast enough.
The "how dare you" society cracks me up.
They bitch about rising housing prices simultaneous to bitching about increasing housing supply.
Evidently, we aren't increasing the housing supply fast enough.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:52 pm to weagle1999
It's not about growth, it's about WHO is filling those homes because of that growth.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:54 pm to NC_Tigah
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Close admixtures of income diverse neighbors becomes more problematic, either in terms of "gentrification," in the case of advancing neighborhoods, or in declining property values in the opposite circumstance..
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:55 pm to meansonny
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They bitch about rising housing prices simultaneous to bitching about increasing housing supply.
Yea, because importing 20 million illegal aliens in 4 years has nothing to do with supply and demand, right?
We could keep a balanced supply to go along with a balanced demand and not frick it all up with illegals
Posted on 5/19/26 at 3:58 pm to dnm3305
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We could keep a balanced supply to go along with a balanced demand and not frick it all up with illegals
Or.
Keep the illegals out and increase the supply.
Just saying.
Posted on 5/19/26 at 4:06 pm to loogaroo
quote:a good hoa slows it down a touch
hate that shite. It turns into a breeding ground after 10 years.
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