Yes, droll atheistswillrule. The 30 acre minifarm I owned in Ohio, with the 50 acre farm to the west and the 200 acre farm to the right, I couldn't see my neighbors either. Yet I knew my neighbors very well. We often stopped by just to say "hi" as they did for us. I'm sorry you feel you have to live in a compound with gates to keep out the rifraf (neighbors).

What's so good about living in Chapel Hill (and Orange County)? For starters, the highest per capita income in the state among all NC counties. The lowest unemployment rate in the state, the highest test scores among public school children, and a home mortgage market that didn't crash during the current recession. A cool place to live, work and raise a family, without the crowds (and crime) or Durham or Raleigh.

atheistswillrule 30 years and you only met your neighbor last year, do you come out to tell how many more weeks of winter we're going to have? offshore

How droll of you. Where I am in Chapel Hill, I can't see any neighbors from my home. The back of my property is against botanical garden property, the land in front of me is part of a land trust and can't be built on. My neighbor to my left lives on 16 acres and has a gate, my neighbors to the right from what I understand, normally stay in Europe and only use the house when visiting relatives in the state. I have my own schedule and my property is not accessible to others either. It doesn't make me a hermit. I go out each and every day, just not with my neighbors.

Wait....are you telling me that places where people have very stringent zoning laws and keep their real estate values high are better and safer to live in? Wow. Who would have though?

atheistswillrule 30 years and you only met your neighbor last year, do you come out to tell how many more weeks of winter we're going to have?

"I love Cary and Chapel Hill...

Chapel Hill 10th Cary-11th"

and all we hear is "blahblahblahblahblah"

I love Cary and Chapel Hill...

Chapel Hill 10th Cary-11th

I'd rather have a nosy neighbor who let the police know someone was breaking into my house than to have a neighbor I hadn't met in 30 years. hippiemom

That madam, is why security systems were invented.

I love Chapel Hill.

Obamacare returns:

Hmm, I quoted that from one of the earlier posts to this article which has now vanished mysteriously as stuff does on this board.

Recent? How about the last 20 years? That would suit me. About that time (~1992), an article appeared in a magazine and/or was carried in the N&O, that stated that the population of the Triangle was going to TRIPLE from ~1992 till 2015. This was a stunning thing to grasp. Imagine the BIG metro YOU came from TRIPLING in population in 23 years! I'm native North Carolinian and have lived here since I came to NCSU in 1967. Really, the last 20 years of growth from intra-US immigration in the entire state, but especially in the Triangle, has changed NC too much, and not for the better in many ways. Not trying to hurt anybody's feelings, but most of us natives are unhappy with what the growth has done to our state. A very very few people have gotten filthy stinkin' rich off of it, & the rest of us have to deal with the consequences.

page 1 | 2 | 3
<prev	next>

sort order: oldest first | newest first