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View Poll Results: Which city influences the Triangle more, DC or Atlanta
Washington, DC 13 68.42%
Atlanta, Georgia 6 31.58%
Voters: 19. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-17-2015, 10:44 PM
 
Location: ITB Raleigh, NC
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Neither. The cities I most hear regional ED folks talk about are Austin(music/tech) and San Francisco (tech/biotech)
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Old 01-26-2015, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Beautiful and sanitary DC
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Was reminded of this thread when I saw a sudden outcropping of "UNC in DC" ads on the Metro. Sure enough, UNC offers MBAs up here, but not in Atlanta, and it's not because there's a wide-open market.

The net migration flows between 2008-2012 show a much stronger flow of people to/from the DC metro than the Atlanta metro.*

Wake County - Atlanta metro: Wake lost 156 people
Wake County - Washington metro: Wake gained 409 people

Durham County - Atlanta metro: Durham gained 140 people
Durham County - Washington metro: Durham lost 430 people

(Now, I knew that Wake & Durham have very different migration flows, but the fact that these are completely symmetrical is fascinating.)

Historically, a lot of these flows run along railroad or highway corridors. It's worth noting that it wasn't until after the Civil War that railroads connected the Triangle to Georgia (via Charlotte), and that before the Interstates, US 1 ran directly from Raleigh to DC but getting to Atlanta required turning off US 64.

[Atlanta 10 metro counties: Cherokee, Cobb, Douglas, Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Fayette, Clayton, Henry, Rockdale. Washington 10 metro counties: Prince William, Fairfax, Loudoun, Arlington, Alexandria, DC, Montgomery, Prince George's, Anne Arundel, Howard]
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Old 01-27-2015, 06:55 AM
 
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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That is interesting data. Although I don't necessarily agree with all of your choices of counties representing the DC area. Both Anne Arundel County and Howard county are considered part of Baltimore's MSA, not DC's. And you left out many counties/cities that are part of DC's MSA including Frederick County (MD), Stafford County, and Falls Church City among others. By changing the counties/cities included, the results come out very different.

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