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I'm from a farming community/blue collar town, but it looks like all that is about to change. They just put in an industrial park, which I don't mind too much since its mostly blue collar stuff, but now we're getting our first housing development put in. Its gonna be for the "upper income families". Roughly 150 houses are gonna be put up on former farmland. Also, we recently got a subway and dollar general put in on main street, which are the first chain stores in my town. We're also about to get our first traffic light too. This is killing me, as I always planned on living here my whole life. Except now I'm not too sure I will live here now that a ton of yuppies are coming in. It just feels like I'm being kicked out of my own home. Has this happened to anyone else?
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not to belittle the situation or anything and I mean this with no disrespect, but do you really think a subway, dollar general and a stoplight are gonna attract a ton of people? I live in west texas and most communities have at least 2 of the 3 you mentioned...even the "small" towns....true, there problably won't be enough room in the parking lot of subway to park your tractor, but I don't think you'll have to worry about the bus loads of people coming in just because of that....now if wal-mart hits, it could be an entirely different story
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Well, thats what I feel like we're headed for. I forgot to mention, at the housing plan, they're putting in some small shops right next to it. But what scares me about the yuppies is that they come here for the "quaintness", but I don't think they wanna give up convenience either. So I am worried about bigger stores coming in. (Wal-marts still a loooong way off, thank God.)
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That is happening around me right now. Supermarkets are springing up like mushrooms, and strip malls are joining them. Three Kroger markets have opened round here in the last 6 months, with others going up. Housing projects are going crazy, with little 1 acre plots all round us. I don't mind too much, because when they have run out of land to build on, I can move, selling my 6 and a bit acres to the highest bidder.
A traffic light arrived in town, the speed limits got reduced and the amount of silly looking folk in minivans is amazing. We have only been here a three years, and it all happened since we arrived.. Presumably we were the start of the rot. Maybe I can get away, and get back to the desert - this place is a total shock to my preferred habitat.
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A traffic light arrived in town, the speed limits got reduced and the amount of silly looking folk in minivans is amazing. We have only been here a three years, and it all happened since we arrived.. Presumably we were the start of the rot. Maybe I can get away, and get back to the desert - this place is a total shock to my preferred habitat.
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well bob... a lot of housing developments start with grand ideas and never make it very far...if you live in a small farming community and especially if its far from "convenience", then I still don't think you'll have to much of a worry.
and in the event that walmart does come in...see the bottom of page one...you might want those pickup lines
and in the event that walmart does come in...see the bottom of page one...you might want those pickup lines
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lol, thanks for the wal-mart tip. But as far as the development not making it very far, they've already levelled all the land and I think they started digging foundations already, so I'd say its guaranteed to come in.
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Hey Bob#s,
Come on Bubba, how far is Butler from Philly? I live right outside of "The City of Brotherly Love" over here in Jersey. I know of Butler and aint never been there! You make it sound like you live in a "Holler 'tween the ridges". Is Butler really that small?
I understand your trepidation, but one Subway or a Dollar Store does not bring the mass exodus of people from the cities. This is a little "progress".
Now if they come in and at the trafic light corners put up a Walgreens, then on the otherside up goes an Eckerds, and then on the other corner an A-Plus food and gas, and on the other corner a WaWa gas station, then get the he*l out!
Super Wal-Mart is on the way!!
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Come on Bubba, how far is Butler from Philly? I live right outside of "The City of Brotherly Love" over here in Jersey. I know of Butler and aint never been there! You make it sound like you live in a "Holler 'tween the ridges". Is Butler really that small?
I understand your trepidation, but one Subway or a Dollar Store does not bring the mass exodus of people from the cities. This is a little "progress".
Now if they come in and at the trafic light corners put up a Walgreens, then on the otherside up goes an Eckerds, and then on the other corner an A-Plus food and gas, and on the other corner a WaWa gas station, then get the he*l out!
Super Wal-Mart is on the way!!
Go Iggles!!!!
reever
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well...good luck...maybe you should get together with some of the farmers and have a couple of those old fashioned tractor pulls on the land for this new housing divison 
...do this a few times before the concrete goes in.
I've seen many places that were cleared...heck, even roads put in for divisions...and the first house or two never sold after a year or two, the company gave up and abandonded the plans. you never know....but I think the tractor pulls and any other noisy or dirt grading experiences could go along way in prolonging or putting off the new division.
...do this a few times before the concrete goes in. I've seen many places that were cleared...heck, even roads put in for divisions...and the first house or two never sold after a year or two, the company gave up and abandonded the plans. you never know....but I think the tractor pulls and any other noisy or dirt grading experiences could go along way in prolonging or putting off the new division.
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Well, I'm actually from saxonburg, it's about 10 miles from the city of butler. And we're not extremely small either, my high school had about 900 or so kids in it. But we are far from all the shopping centers and that stuff. I just want to keep it that way.
lol, and yes, my best friends name is in fact bubba, and yes, he does drive a jacked up f-250.
Go Stillers!!! 3-8, or whatever our crappy record is!!
lol, and yes, my best friends name is in fact bubba, and yes, he does drive a jacked up f-250.
Go Stillers!!! 3-8, or whatever our crappy record is!!
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Originally posted by fisher_of_man
....but I think the tractor pulls and any other noisy or dirt grading experiences could go along way in prolonging or putting off the new division.
....but I think the tractor pulls and any other noisy or dirt grading experiences could go along way in prolonging or putting off the new division.
lol, I've sorta had that idea myself, I was thinking about pulling the muffler off my truck and drive through revving the engine while they're trying to sell 'em. Any other ideas?
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Originally posted by bobs75f-250
lol, I've sorta had that idea myself, I was thinking about pulling the muffler off my truck and drive through revving the engine while they're trying to sell 'em. Any other ideas?
lol, I've sorta had that idea myself, I was thinking about pulling the muffler off my truck and drive through revving the engine while they're trying to sell 'em. Any other ideas?
....you could sneak up there at night and make different designs out of all their little surveying stakes....but after a night or two...I'm sure somebody would be there to make sure it didn't happen again....for some wierd reason people spending money on stuff like that don't have much of a sense of humor when it comes to that kinda stuff
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HA HA, I like the septic idea. One good thing has come out of this though, my township is doing some thing where farmers can declare their land undevelopable or something, and it supposedly can't EVER be developed once they do that. I'm not sure how it all works though.
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I hate what is happening to my town. It's right on Lake Michigan, so now all the "flat-landers" are coming up from Chicago, putting up arts and craps shops, and tearing down nice old buildings to make condos. The condos are going up like crazy, and it's sickening. They all look the same. The old-timers are dying off too. The ones that can tell you the stories about the old shipping and commercial fishing days, they're being pushed out, they can't afford the property taxes anymore, let alone property. And the outsiders are getting involved in the local gov'ts, screwing with stuff they don't have to deal with 11 months out of a year. Kinda sad... 
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Well, at least you can say you're from Butler, PA, and what it's famous for. You DO know what Butler is famous for, don't you? It was the home of the American Bantam Car Co. They are the folks that designed and built the original GP vehicle for the military in 1939, now known as the Jeep. Always pisses me off when ******-Overland tried to take credit for it. ****** eventually went on to become Jeep Corp., but they did not invent the Jeep- the fine folks in Butler did.