Angry sleepless tirade on Cary.
This started as a note on facebook and was promptly deleted no less than 8 hours after it was completed, thus moved here because I feel like for once I've successfully nailed just about everything I hate about this place.
Because Cary, North Carolina is a vaccuum and it will suck it out of you as soon as you let your guard down.
It overwhelms me how much the town of Cary sucks and continues to advance into higher and more complicated levels of Suck every time I encounter it.
For starts, Cary is the most vain citytown I've known to exist. If not for suing someone for painting their roof red (which is traditional, mind you) then perhaps for strict regulations on what items and how many of them are allowed in one's yard, how many pets are allowed per household, or maybe for constructing a cell phone satellite tower and disguising it as a tree (which, according to wikipedia, can distinctly be seen from I-40, as it's significantly
taller than all the other trees).
Maybe it's that new shopping center they're putting up (which one, right?) that kills me the most. Or maybe it's the Walgreens across from the Eckerd's across from the CVS that's in front of the Citgo down the street from the BP just about a block away from the Shell which is in front of Lowes Foods, right in front of that place where they're doing construction for another shopping center that will be based around a Harris Teeter, which will (and I'm being 100% honest here) be located across from the Walgreens on Ten-Ten. All the while they could be taking all this money they're using to erect superfluous businesses for competition alone and maybe fix problematic traffic areas, 6-year old potholes, build more public schools and fix overcrowding, make sense of RETARDED parking lots (i.e. Crossroads), pave streets, etc.
I feel like city officials use overpopulation as an excuse to put up new housing developments and redundant shopping centers, and instead of building enough they build too much, like when your mom would make sure she bought your pants a little too big so you'd grow into them. Except I feel like the Carypants are probably around five sizes too big, so you have to get really fat really fast to fit into them. I mean, I can't say how many houses I've passed in Cary that have been For Sale since I could remember whose sellers I suppose refuse to get less than Ridiculously Top Dollar for their otherwise normal 2-bedroom 1-bathroom abode. Besides, do THAT many people REALLY want to live in Cary?!
And I HATE the city's total disregard to redundance in its architecture: how every fucking thing looks exactly the same.
And the bored cops who don't have to deal with actual crime, that spend their nights fucking with the unfortunate kids desperate for entertainment or pulling someone because a tail light was out or their music was "too loud."
"Downtown" Cary looks like something taken directly from Thomas the Tank Engine. The only people that speak well of Cary are rich.
To describe it as lackluster is an unbelievable understatement.
Cary is a soul-hungry wench. It takes people who have the potential to lead a genuine and meaningful life and, provided they don't come to their senses and escape, turns them into object-obsessed self-loving asswipes who don't care about kicking that family living in a trailer on inherited land and foodstamps out on a city ordinance.
Cary will never have anything significant happen in it for the fact that by its legal nature any cultural advances or attempts at individualism are smothered. I can only imagine what its abilities in the way of censorship are. Fortunate enough for Cary authorities, no one who ever stayed in Cary would produce anything that could be up for censorship to begin with, so perhaps it all works out.
These things I guess aren't characteristic of Cary alone. I'm sure other cities share a few of these traits, but I've never seen a place try so hard to be an illusion the way Cary does, and I definitely fail to see the appeal of living somewhere like it. It was voted one of the safest cities in the nation and I'm sure it could also be voted one of the most lifeless.
In short, I can't wait to get the fuck away from it and never come back.
Because Cary, North Carolina is a vaccuum and it will suck it out of you as soon as you let your guard down.
It overwhelms me how much the town of Cary sucks and continues to advance into higher and more complicated levels of Suck every time I encounter it.
For starts, Cary is the most vain citytown I've known to exist. If not for suing someone for painting their roof red (which is traditional, mind you) then perhaps for strict regulations on what items and how many of them are allowed in one's yard, how many pets are allowed per household, or maybe for constructing a cell phone satellite tower and disguising it as a tree (which, according to wikipedia, can distinctly be seen from I-40, as it's significantly
taller than all the other trees).
Maybe it's that new shopping center they're putting up (which one, right?) that kills me the most. Or maybe it's the Walgreens across from the Eckerd's across from the CVS that's in front of the Citgo down the street from the BP just about a block away from the Shell which is in front of Lowes Foods, right in front of that place where they're doing construction for another shopping center that will be based around a Harris Teeter, which will (and I'm being 100% honest here) be located across from the Walgreens on Ten-Ten. All the while they could be taking all this money they're using to erect superfluous businesses for competition alone and maybe fix problematic traffic areas, 6-year old potholes, build more public schools and fix overcrowding, make sense of RETARDED parking lots (i.e. Crossroads), pave streets, etc.
I feel like city officials use overpopulation as an excuse to put up new housing developments and redundant shopping centers, and instead of building enough they build too much, like when your mom would make sure she bought your pants a little too big so you'd grow into them. Except I feel like the Carypants are probably around five sizes too big, so you have to get really fat really fast to fit into them. I mean, I can't say how many houses I've passed in Cary that have been For Sale since I could remember whose sellers I suppose refuse to get less than Ridiculously Top Dollar for their otherwise normal 2-bedroom 1-bathroom abode. Besides, do THAT many people REALLY want to live in Cary?!
And I HATE the city's total disregard to redundance in its architecture: how every fucking thing looks exactly the same.
And the bored cops who don't have to deal with actual crime, that spend their nights fucking with the unfortunate kids desperate for entertainment or pulling someone because a tail light was out or their music was "too loud."
"Downtown" Cary looks like something taken directly from Thomas the Tank Engine. The only people that speak well of Cary are rich.
To describe it as lackluster is an unbelievable understatement.
Cary is a soul-hungry wench. It takes people who have the potential to lead a genuine and meaningful life and, provided they don't come to their senses and escape, turns them into object-obsessed self-loving asswipes who don't care about kicking that family living in a trailer on inherited land and foodstamps out on a city ordinance.
Cary will never have anything significant happen in it for the fact that by its legal nature any cultural advances or attempts at individualism are smothered. I can only imagine what its abilities in the way of censorship are. Fortunate enough for Cary authorities, no one who ever stayed in Cary would produce anything that could be up for censorship to begin with, so perhaps it all works out.
These things I guess aren't characteristic of Cary alone. I'm sure other cities share a few of these traits, but I've never seen a place try so hard to be an illusion the way Cary does, and I definitely fail to see the appeal of living somewhere like it. It was voted one of the safest cities in the nation and I'm sure it could also be voted one of the most lifeless.
In short, I can't wait to get the fuck away from it and never come back.