Posted on 06/13/2006 1:19:15 AM PDT by goldstategop
In spite of my being a Yankee (or maybe because of it) one of my all-time favorite songs is "Don't It Make You Want To Go Home" by Joe South. If you're unfamiliar with it,you might want to check it out.It touches on what you've just said.
Reread the quote. I believe it implies that the simple act of moving to a place, regardless of intentions, changes that place.
That's what I love about FR, the elegant repartee....
I like the Piedmont area of NC (Greensboro, Winston-Salem). The cities are large enough so that there's plenty to do and prices and taxes are fairly low.
You're just 2-3 hours drive (depending....) from both the mountains and the beach, so you get the best of both worlds without needing to pay the inflated prices.
That, and Asheville is Berkley East. Nice place to visit, but I don't think that I'd like to live there. The Boone/Blowing Rock areas are nicer, IMHO.
Possibly true, in the chaos theory sense of butterfly wings, but it's not what I set out to do. In any event, I don't need your permission or consent to live where I wish.
In my single days, I lived in a rented carriage house on an old gentlemen's farm in a rural area where I woke up to the sight of old barns hovering in the morning mist across acres of farm fields. At night, I could sit out on the porch and see a million stars. In a few years, somebody bought the lot next door and built a nice big beautiful custom home. They were just as enamored with the view I was enjoying. One day, over the fence, the new homeowners were talking about the beautiful area and told me that they bought that specific piece of property because of the old barns. Not more than 3 months later they were absolutely livid when they came home to see bulldozers pulling down what was left of the barns to make way for 400 new homes boasting scenic views of the countryside!
The problem that you southerners have,in terms of keeping the Yankees out,is that most Yankees who have owned a house for more than a few years have made a fortune on their investment.In the middle class suburbs of Boston,$500K would,at best,buy you a very modest house.
Last year,I vacationed on Saint Simon Island..coastal Georgia.Houses there that I consider to be near mansions were selling for what you'd pay for a shack here in Massachusetts.
As long as that kind of situation exists,there's no way that you'll be able to keep the Yanks out.
I understand what you're saying; ten years ago my husband and I thought the Charlottesville area would be nice to consider. Now it's practically a suburb of Washington, so it's off our list. However, I don't see how to stop that. If a place is attractive, it's going to attract people.
I sympathize with the story about the old barns being pulled down, but if they did not own that property, they had no control over what happened to it. Perhaps they should have bought more property at the time, including the barns, in order to protect what they valued about the place.
Very true. Having lived in the Northern Virginia suburbs in the same house for over fifteen years, I can afford virtually anything in the areas we've looked at in North Carolina. It may seem unfair, but I didn't structure the real estate markets that way.
Check out Blowing Rock, NC. It's much like Gatlinburg was forty years ago, an artists colony with great skying int he winter and drop dead beautiful scenes of the mountains. Good people living there now, also. Real Estate isn't over the roof yet. restaurants abound. Not a long drive to major cities in TN and NC and VA.
And I've got a nice house in Johnson City, TN if you don't require living directly in the mts. but can live within less than an hour from Roan MT and an hour from Asheville. 4br, 3 1/2 baths, ~3400sq ft on half acre bordered by a small cattle farm.
Progress/development is inevitable, but what breaks my heart is to see what 'developers' are doing to the mountains. Just drive from Morganton or thereabouts west on I-40 and you will see the mountains being scalped to build residences with an unobscured view of the valleys below. Never mind what that does to the scenery or the environment, especially those downhill from the resulting runoff. It is criminal in my opinion, but money talks, unfortunately. It is just too bad that selfish people of the 'me' generation are taking over. Off the soapbox for now...
It doesn't matter what you set out to do, it's simply the consequences of your actions. I'm sure that you don't set out to pollute the atmosphere when you drive your car, but that's one of the consequences of the action of driving your car.
It doesn't have anything to do with chaos theory. It's simply cause and effect.
In any event, I don't need your permission or consent to live where I wish.
And, trust me, if you did need my permission to live in the South, you wouldn't get it.
Unless it's south Baghdad. Or the South Pole.
I'm familiar with the various housing markets and understand the dynamics behind the northern exodus.
That doesn't mean that I like it.
You're funny...
And, trust me, if you did need my permission to live in the South, you wouldn't get it.
Unless it's south Baghdad. Or the South Pole.
If that is the cowboy way to act, you can have it.
You are an ass.
There aren't many cowboys here in Northern Virginia, but I do know a drama queen when I see one. :)
Have you been talking to my ex-wife?
I suppose it would be more appealing to you if my response were more like, "Yassar boss! We dumb ol' hillbillies sho nuf need yall yankees to buys up alls our land and tells us whats to do! "
If that's what you're looking for, boy, then don't look here cuz you ain't gonna find it.
Also, the Cowboy Way includes not taking any schit. If that means 'ass' to you left coast libs, then I'm sho nuff an 'ass'.
I try. Unfortunately, my brand of humor is often wasted on the Lilliputian intellects that traipse these threads.
But, seriously, I really do miss the way the South used to be. Sad to see it go.
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