Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:16:40 -0400
Reply-To: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
Subject: NO VANAGON Content --- why Cary, NC stinks...
Forwarded to the list mostly for the benefit of others in NC, or similar
circumstances...
Buh-leeve me, Michael, I am with you on the "Cary Stinks" bandwagon. We
moved here only to use it as a stepping stone toward a real town. We're
almost free and clear of "cul-de-sac City"...but of course, maybe it's a
matter of taste...
If you like hanging out with folks who are self-centered, money-focused,
and have that down home
"gotta-keep-up-with-the-Jones'-and-pass-their-sorry-butts-on-the-beltway"
mentality, then Cary is the place for you. You can live here for years and
never know your neighbor, even though his bathroom is 10 feet from yours...
Cary is one big parking lot, perforated by look-alike strip malls and
meaningless cul-de-sac "communities" made of the shoddiest, flimsiest
housing materials...Our church has something like 1,800 members, (good luck
getting to confession), and is growing by 1.2 families per day...the place
is out of water, doesn't have sufficient schools, traffic is a disaster,
and there is absolutely no culture whatsoever...Nothing but sprawl, Red
Lobster, sprawl, Food Lion, sprawl, Home Depot, sprawl, Ford SUV dealer,
sprawl, cul-de-sacs, sprawl, Midas, sprawl, McDonalds, sprawl, Olive
Garden, sprawl, sprawl, sprawl, sprawl, sprawl, sprawl, ...
Mt Olive is a couple of months away for us; some pressing family concerns
bumped our house deal to second priority...Hopefully by the close of the
year. I can't wait. (Gratuitous Vanagon content): in the mean time, our
Westfalia is our "escape pod". We spend most weekends down east, or in the
mountains.
Thanks for letting me vent. Maybe I should start a "how to fix the suburbs"
mail list..
G. Matthew Bulley
Director
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
www.bulley-hewlett.com
Cary, NC USA
888.468.4880 tollfree
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Townsend [SMTP:townsend@RTP.ERICSSON.SE]
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:34 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: From whence cometh thee?
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
That's why some of us, even though we work in RTP only 10 miles from Cary,
drive 25 miles away to live in DURHAM! A real town with real diversity,
significantly lower housing costs, and lots of VW's on 9th street.
Besides,
soon Cary will have no grass: The houses are 1/5 acre houses on 1/4 acre
lots. And, I hear that Ford is going to sell 50000 Excursions next year.
That means 1000 for each state. Since Carey will get 90% of North
Carolina's allotment, that means 900 Cary front yards will have their
entire
grass surface area completely occluded from sunlight with the Excursions
parked there, because they won't fit in the garage! ;-)
Michael Townsend
Durham, NC
P.S. Mr. Bulley, when are you moving to Mt. Olive? Is it dried out there
yet?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bulley <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 3:51 PM
Subject: From whence cometh thee?
>I currently live in Cary, NC...a malignant, metastasizing, suburban tumor
>on the left pectoral side of Raleigh.
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