Annex everybody! You set up shop right outside the city limits and enjoy everything the city has to offer for free. Good!They also should have annexed Eastover,they got off because of the good ole boy network.

mtr, your sarcasm is golden! That describes Fayetteville.

I for one am glad that Fayetteville annexed me in the Cliffdale area. I no longer have to take my trash out 2 times a week. I get many more opportunities to pay higher taxes with less services. I can now drive things like couches and chairs to refuse sites instead of having it picked up curbside. I no longer have to see the county law enforcement officers drive past my house daily, I only have to see the city police every three weeks or so. I can look forward to having notices placed on my door if I go on a vacation and can't mow the grass for two weeks.

Fayetteville's annexing of my area has changed me forever and boy I'm in heaven now.

Isn't that what most involuntary annexations are about: immense greed on the part of the municipalities? That and the inability to manage their money and the need to suck in more taxpayers to support their continued mismanagement?

Fayetteville won't give up until they can get that tax money from those expensive homes!