Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 07:59:10 -0500
From: momopom
Subject: Welcome to suburban Pittsboro!
I moved here from Highlands, NC. Anyone familiar with Highlands knows that it was once a quaint little town that was a joy to live in. It is no longer that way. More and more people came in, had more money than many of the locals, treated the locals like second class citizens. It was a boom – taxes rose and many of the multiple generation farms were sold then replaced by developments. Traffic jams, long lines, upscale shops, higher taxes, more commercialism. Peace of mind – gone. Sense of community – gone. Rural flavor – gone.
It’s what happens.
Webster’s definition of suburban: uninteresting, conventional, ordinary, commonplace, unremarkable, unexceptional…