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Feature: The Great Liquidation: Why Your House is Rotting While Hickory Grows
Hickory is being harvested. While leadership cuts ribbons on "Amenity Theater" projects, the city’s backbone is buckling under an the average citizen's $18,840 "Deficit to Stability."
In this week's News & Views, we expose the "Great Liquidation." We’re trading local legacy for national "Rooftop Manufacturers" like D.R. Horton, driving a manufactured median price that prices out the people who built this town. With our infrastructure hitting a "D+" breaking point and construction profits fleeing to Texas, the math for the "Shrinking Center" no longer adds up.
Stop paying the "Mental Tax." Read the truth about Hickory’s structural extraction at The Hickory Hound.