re: NWA. The Next Austin?

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Yeah don’t get me wrong I really like it here but Bentonville’s self-proclaimed “mountain biking capital of the world” stuff is cringe. They just try too hard. It’s a cool place without them beating you over the head with it.

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All that promoting of best college towns to live does is invite more people who don’t have the same views as you and want to change the area, usually for the worst.

Half the tags I see now in Fayetteville are from out of state people. Californians with Bernie stickers. Saw a bunch of Texas/Beto, even saw New York with an AOC sticker. Lots of ACAB graffiti.

Gentrification is ok here I guess since it’s a majority white population? All the farms around me are now being sold off by the kids and turned into subdivisions. Where I went to school used to have 1 route for my road, and now it has 5ish.