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5/20/2011
It is dangerous and arrogant to jump to conclusions. It is not prejudice towards single women, or any women for that matter. It is a growing saddness that natives feel for the rapid and unwanted growth. Union county, and Waxhaw in particular, has always been country roads, farm land, and people who know, love, and help each other. It was being able to grow up and live around people and families you had known since birth. Sadly, it quickly became a place where greedy developers saw dollar signs and transplants saw a place where they could sell their over-priced homes and move to where they could take the same amount of money and have more square footage and higher acreage. If you were buying a snow shovel, chances are you probably weren't born and raised in Waxhaw. The gentleman was not short with you because you were a woman. He was probably just expressing his frustrated with what things have become. We like it here. Those of us that were born here are proud of it and appreciate the rich roots that run deep. I have a Bachelor's Degree and work for the State, far from the 'hick' image some of you would like to portray. Being from others areas you just would not begin to understand. We are not wrong, just different. And, as kind hearted and compassionate as I am, if you don't like it here you are more than welcome to leave-trust me.
jwaxhaw | Waxhaw, NC