The fact that Metromess exurb Princeton is over 35,000 people shows in a nutshell all the manifold things wrong with much of modern Merikkka. Cactus Ed Abbey was 127 percent right with "growth for growth's sake is the theology of the cancer cell."
Mushrooming suburbs are bad enough. Mushrooming exurbs are horrible.
Next comes demands for widened highways so these people can commute to Wylie, Allen, Mesquite, Rockwall or wherever they should live.
Then comes the bitching when other folks move out to exurbia after them and they find out they can't pull the ladder up behind them.
After that comes the bitching when their formerly small-town school district gets overwhelmed and needs new buildings, but Joe and Jane Exurb won't vote for a bond issue.
Next comes the cringe when the school district deteriorates because of vouchers, courtesy of the Gov. Strangeabbott and Lite Gov. Dannie Goeb they voted for.
Princeton in specific? I remember, per Wiki, when it was a wide spot in the road of 3K people. That said, it looks like the escapees aren't so White as the long-ago population.
Shit, I remember when McKinney was a small town and Melissa and Anna were wide spots in the road.
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