[grey_whiskers]

Cary, North Dakota, as in, the home of the SAS Institute (statistical programming language beloved of banks and insurance)?

...figures.

Condolences to you. Nothing hurts like losing your old home to foreigners.

[ponygirl]

It's Carolina, but yeah... it's also the home of Research Triangle Park and a multitude of Pharma, bio research, and tech companies. I have former classmates who work at SAS now. IBM used to be a huge employer in that area. My mom worked at RTP for decades and I worked at Northern Telecom in RTP briefly after college.

I have read opinions that the wholesale change to small hometowns has been intentional. People no longer connect to places they don't recognize. The nostalgia is gone if you can't even walk or drive the same roads.

They are in the process of building something very similar in downtown Phoenix, with pods of all the different colleges within blocks of each other. They are calling it the "Bioscience Core." The way I see it, as long as you aren't paving over thousands of acres of fertile farmland, knock yourself out. The campus has only improved downtown Phoenix, which always looked like a burned out husk covered with dirt to me.

[NCjim]

That would be Cary, North Carolina.

[Gasshog]

My old neighborhood is probably 78% Hispanic now and it was 90% white when I was growing up-Yuge change.

That doesnt really bug me much tho I left there over 30 years ago. My memories of the area are way more pleasant than the reality of the current time.