Turnpike Exit
When my family first moved to the flyspeck town, that's all it was: a place to switch from US highways to the toll road and back. We had one off-brand grocery store, two off-brand sandwich shops, and only two traffic lights. The road we lived on was two miles of dirt. My school had less than 100 kids in each year. Hard to get more rural.
Now we've got McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, Subway, Hannaford, a dozen of those white-bread, middle-class housing developments with names like Shadybrook Village, and the town center has been re-engineered twice for improved traffic flow.