I just learned that google earth does time lapse. So I found our little lot and set it back to 2004 when we bought, built and moved in.
This grainy image (doesnt get detailed until 2012) is what our area was like in 2004.
And this is 18 years later:
Most of the warehouses that were added were after Whitestown forcibly annexed half of the township in 2014. 2016-now is the big explosion.
Whats your area like compared to when you moved in?
This was the best place to grow up.
Mt Pleasant SC. 1984. 15k people lived here. It was glorious.
Same place in 2020. The town is gone. It's a terrible place to live. 90k people are piled in there now. We left 10 years ago.
Unfortunately, the area we are in now is doing the same thing. The kids are out of school now so it's time to get the hell out of town.
Our lot is 061901 and is an old farm house from the 1910s. The above picture is from 1938.
Above is from 1957.
Above is from 1980
Above is from 2005.
Above is from 2021. There will be a new subdivision around us, with houses being built in the spring. The blue/black dashed roads are actually complete already.
historicaerials.com will further depress you.
My corner of Atlanta looks pretty much the same. What could have been developed 40 years ago....was.
How do you access time lapse? I'd like to stack photos into a gif.
There is a simple way to fix all of this...
What's worse? I have lived in a few places that are all but dead. Google still shows buildings. It doesn't show that they've been vacant for decades.
My house was built pre-1900 in a neighborhood that developed in the 20s. About the only change google earth would show is that there used to be two big maple trees in my yard and now they're gone.
Unless google came up with a TARDIS version and went back to take satellite photos in 1885.
They are building two more warehouses 1/2 mile from the house. We've considered selling and moving but real estate is terrible right now and we've had No mortgage for 2 years. By the time the dust settles our property will be worth half because who wants the lights and sounds of warehouses for a backyard?
Here you go. My house to Texas World Speedway in 2015 was 3.7 miles as the crow flies. Took 5 minutes. Was there all the time.
Now, it's our town's newest large-scale neighborhood development. Homes from the 300's. North wall of oval is all that's left.
In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
You'd be surprised what you can find through the state tax map website, I forget the initials of the agency though, UIS maybe?. But they have Arial photos of my house from the 50s, and my last house from even before that.
In reply to RossD :
I know where this is. The growth of generic 250-400k homes in the Fox Valley is staggering. But I suppose it is everywhere.
My area hasn't changed much since I moved in but it was pretty much fully developed. There are new subdivisions in my town but none near me.
In reply to Toyman! :
We lived in Cainhoy until 90 so I understand exactly what you mean.
My grandpa was complaining once about this same issue. He told me when he bought his farm he could stand on the roof and count eight other houses within view. Now it's over 100. I said "Grandpa, you had nine kids and all your neighbors had gobs of kids, too. Where did you think they were gonna go?"
In reply to bobzilla :
A family friend had FedEx build a massive distribution center direcly behind their house. The lights and trucks and banging noises from the dock make it miserable; he said he hasn't had a good nights sleep for years. He's planning on moving but doesn't want to do it until he retires because as he put it, he's only moving once, and retirement doesn't involve being near the city.
I'm fortunate in that most of the area around me was already built up but long enough ago that a bunch of the houses have sizable lots despite being 15 minutes from downtown Columbus. Now, some of those have been bought and had postage stamp sized yards divided out with $750k houses put on them. Mine was almost one of those casualties - if I hadn't snatched it up a developer probably would have.
In reply to Stampie :
Cainhoy went from crickets and deer to every yuppy still left in the greater Charleston area. It's super bad out there.
My next move is going to be far enough out that they shouldn't catch up with me for a long time.
Appleseed said:What's worse? I have lived in a few places that are all but dead. Google still shows buildings. It doesn't show that they've been vacant for decades.
Yup. I remember riding through towns in southern Indiana several years back that could have been shrunk to less than half their size easily if the vacant buildings were torn down.
RevRico said:In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
You'd be surprised what you can find through the state tax map website, I forget the initials of the agency though, UIS maybe?. But they have Arial photos of my house from the 50s, and my last house from even before that.
GIS I think. Didn't find anything specific but I can keep digging.
That didn't format the way I'd hoped, but the link shows it well enough. Timelapse runs 1984-2020, we moved here in 2001. Population has tripled in the last 20.
I thought we had moved far enough out from the city in '04. It was quiet, there were no projects in the works, no expansion. It was rural, quiet and perfect. 2010 changed that when a little podunk town decided to annex one whole township and 2/3 of another because they were $10 million in the hole for their budget and annexation was an easy button to gain new revenue. We fought them for 2 full years, putting in hours knocking on doors, getting signatures and putting in out own hard earned money to pay for an attorney to represent us while they used our tax dollars to pay their own team of lawyers.
The kicker that pisses me off the most is abou half of those warehouses are and have been empty for the last 2-3 years but they keep building more. with whats there is traffic, trash have gotten out of hand and the quiet is gone.
The farm I grew up on is one of the few that still has people living on it. The country used to have yard lights all over the place, now the main light comes from the reserve north of the farm.
I moved to the city, where the living is easy. Saskatoon has gained 50 or 75,000 people in the 40 years since I moved here, and its all good.
But I don't like to have to know where my water comes from, or my poop goes to. There are no pumps to fail on my property.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:RevRico said:In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :
You'd be surprised what you can find through the state tax map website, I forget the initials of the agency though, UIS maybe?. But they have Arial photos of my house from the 50s, and my last house from even before that.
GIS I think. Didn't find anything specific but I can keep digging.
Like I said...
historicaerials.com
Inages back to the 1930s in some areas.
Streetwiseguy said:The farm I grew up on is one of the few that still has people living on it. The country used to have yard lights all over the place, now the main light comes from the reserve north of the farm.
I moved to the city, where the living is easy. Saskatoon has gained 50 or 75,000 people in the 40 years since I moved here, and its all good.
But I don't like to have to know where my water comes from, or my poop goes to. There are no pumps to fail on my property.
We are just the opposite. I don't want to have to pay someone to bring me water and take my poop away. We've (locally) seen public water fail over and over leaving people without water for weeks. I've lived all but 4 years of my 47 years on this ball with a well and septic. We have replaced 3 pumps and one pressure tank in all those years. I don't want to live next to people. Thats why we moved rural and checked for projects to urbanize around us. It's also why I'm so f'n p'd about it. I did my due diligence and got screwed anyway.
Nothing much has changed locally since I've only lived in my current house for 4 years, and the area was already pretty developed at that point, but it did look a lot different back in 1951. My house was only 6 years old in this image.
This is the same area now.
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