We lived in Summerville, for others 20 miles outside of Charleston. Building everywhere, no trees allowed to live if the ground it sits on is worth a buck. Traffic was insane and the roads weren't built to keep up.

Moved to Kentucky, outside of Lexington into a artsy mountain area. It's beautiful, clean and just better weather, after our few months of crazy winter weather. South Carolina also is too damn hot, and it actually hurt my skin to be outside, here I can actually relax outside.

Move to my area, we can hang. It's visually refreshing.

Politics like South Carolina still sucks, but we're trying.

Mid size communities in e. Washington state, Montana exploding!

we were getting almost a hundred thousand arrivals per year from the midwest and the northeast. I believe it permanently changed the place for the worse. Population was under one million in 1970 and by 1990 it was four million.

and am now in downtown Raleigh in a high rise apartment building where I can walk to almost anything I need. I hardly drive at all any more. Chapel Hill is growing like crazy--building everywhere--and they are going to have to widen some of the major roads. That will be a mess.

I'm at a point in my life--68 next month--where I'm not ready for the retirement home and don't want the responsibility of keeping up a house. Renting suits my life right now and being able to walk to almost anything pleases me. I do wish it wasn't so hot and humid here in the summer, but I am not interested in more snow or ice than we get here.

Yes, North Carolina is growing!

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Loved that town...

Road construction in the south Lake Union neighborhood helped relieve years of traffic congestion. But now condos are sprouting up in the same district like mushrooms. I'm guessing anyone in the downtown area who had a nice view of Lake Union is pretty pissed by now.