In the craziness of the past few weeks I forgot to post some photos from our trip to Kennesaw, GA. As I mentioned in the post I wrote about the place, much of the town looked as if it was built (hastily) in the last year. So, given the current financial crisis, I suppose it was fair to assume there would be new housing developments left unsold. I went for a jog on the afternoon of our concert, and found a street with entrances to no fewer than four new “communities”, each featuring a sign with rather sad and desperate looking balloons tied to it.
On one of our trips to the venue for residency activities, I even saw a lady, outside one of these developments, dressed as an ostrich and shouting entreaties to passers-by: “Come on in! Have a look! This is your new dream home!”
And, for the love of god, who on earth would call a new, inclusive, happy-families neighborhood “The Enclave”. This is a word that has always held profoundly negative connotations for me, and which, according to Webster, can be defined as “a distinct territorial, cultural, or social unit enclosed within or as if within foreign territory.” You’re not exactly encouraging positive neighborly feeling…
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The Enclave is great if you’re inside it, not so much if you aren’t. ;)
Posted 27 Feb 2009 at 12:21 PM ¶Well, I grew up near Atlanta, and there was a lot of pretty reactionary stuff that went on up in that area as I recall. Arts funding being cut because of a gay play being produced, KKK harassment of a black family in a subdivision, Newt Gingrich the local rep are just a few of the things.
Posted 03 Mar 2009 at 10:03 PM ¶Everything you pictured here does not represent the housing crisis, as you spoke of in the article. These are all rental apartments, not houses to be sold.
Posted 25 Mar 2009 at 2:10 PM ¶What it may represent is that renters have a lot more choices of where to live because of houses being purchased by investors, and being rented out. They don\’t have to choose an apartment to rent.
If you were to jog around the corner you would have seen Kennesaw State University. all these apartment complexes are doing is trying to attract college students. they have new balloons out everyday for the past two years and the signs about “Free Rent” have been up just as long too.
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