>>You probably wouldn't recognize parts of the drive on 41 from Marietta to C'ville. It's getting built up. Won't be too much longer until it's one long series of strip malls.
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>Yep, know what you mean ... that's how East Cobb is. When we first moved there in '79, it was basically all wide-open spaces. Still felt like we were in the country, lots of horse pastures, that sort of thing ... it didn't take long for East Cobb to become suburbia tho. Apparently that was the place to live in the late 80's ... new subdivisions and strip malls sprang up all over the place. I didn't like it, but what can you do ...

Unfortunately, not too much. Your description sounds like Cartersville now. We've got sub-divisions growing faster than the #%^&($ kudzu. When I moved here, 1981, the population of C'Ville was about 10,000 and 15,000 total for bartow County. Now C'Ville's around 15,000 and the county is 65,000