The Tri-cities area is the same way. Places that used to be farm land miles from town are nothing but urban sprawl and McMansions every five feet. If I ever move again it will be up on top of that "big hill" you can see from my house.


"The time for war has not yet come, but it will come and that soon, and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard." Gen. T.J. Jackson, March 1861