I was the third generation to live in our house growing up. When my grandparents moved there they tell the story like there were gravel roads and no traffic lights. Today there’s a Washington, DC Metro station (Well it supposedly opens in a few months time). There are bike lanes. And tech companies. And apartments. And to be honest I think the area is better off for it. It’s certainly better than destroying even more forest and farm land for ever expanding suburbia.