12 Carolina Towns Growing So Fast They're Spiraling Out of Control

The developers cashing in on the Carolinas do not want you to see this video, because these 12 towns are growing so fast the roads, the schools, and the water systems are cracking under the strain — and in a few of them, a house that sold for a hundred grand a decade ago will now cost you half a million. See, there's a version of the Carolina boom nobody puts in the glossy relocation brochure. The traffic that turns a five-minute drive into forty. The schools so packed they're teaching in trailers. The farmland that vanished under a subdivision while nobody was looking. Both Carolinas now rank among the fastest-growing states in America, with South Carolina recently posting the single highest growth rate of any state. That kind of growth builds fortunes for developers. It also breaks towns. I found a sleepy oyster village that has exploded by more than eight hundred percent. A historic little town whose own residents are packing council meetings, begging their leaders to stop the bulldozers. A farm town east of Raleigh that doubled in size in five short years. And one boomtown that had to slam on the brakes twice in a single year just to catch its breath. If you're thinking about moving to the Carolinas, you need to see this first. So hit that subscribe button now, because we're counting all 12 of these down, and you do not want to miss number one. Let's count it down. Number 12, Zebulon, North Carolina.