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Is this the video you are referring to? If so, this guy is proven to be a idiot. I watched his Virginia video and being an almost lifelong Virginia resident, his conclusions were based on negative stereotypes with stats dug up on the back of confirmation bias.
As a transplant, the city of Durham is not a rough area overall. Yes, there are bad neighborhoods here like most cities. Yes, some parts aesthetically have seen better days (I’ll even volunteer my part of town, North Durham, as one). But overall, Durham is no worse than anywhere I’ve lived. Durham is in fact a CITY, not all good, not all bad.
Haha I watched that video a few months ago and with each number I was like Kinston's gotta be somewhere on this list. Of course it ended up being #1 which I agree with, having been born and raised there.
I suggest you get a subscription to the local newspaper and see for yourself. I think that would be the Herald Sun, or maybe Raleigh’s News and Observer. After reading the paper for several weeks you can get a better sense of Durham.
Durham has higher crime but also much better restaurants than other cities and towns in this region. You take the good with the bad.
I've heard people say that most of the violent crime in Durham is "criminal on criminal" and there's a low risk of being a victim as long as you avoid certain areas and don't act like an ass if you do find yourself in them.
If I were in my twenties and a recent grad, I'd definitely consider living in Durham. If I had school-aged kids? I'd stick to some other counties.
Yes, because the public schools are still the largest issue with Durham.
Like TarHeelNick said, yep! If you look at the OP's other 22 posts, you'll get the idea.
Yep.
I'm not going to say I never acted a fool when I was 20 but trolling an online forum to rile people up in another state? That's some lazy foolishness. What ever happened to the good ole' days of shotgunning fourlokos and then making a slip-in-slide at your friend's parents lake house with a hose, laundry detergent and a tarp?
Haha I watched that video a few months ago and with each number I was like Kinston's gotta be somewhere on this list. Of course it ended up being #1 which I agree with, having been born and raised there.
I watched that video and said Lumberton has to be somewhere on this list; It ended up #2.
That said, I don’t really take this list seriously. I wouldn’t associate Winston-Salem with “Absolutely don’t move there” and I don’t like how he conflates the gritty nature of BOTH Durham and W-S with “Dingy”
So I was watching a video on YouTube of the 10 places in North Carolina not to move to and at #10 Durham was on the list, I was like isn’t where Duke University is located? I always thought it was some nice area with a bunch of nice houses like a suburb.
Durham "could" be the 10th worst - but as he noted, it's "come a long way baby" since the 1990's. Durham really changed when the DBAP and American Tobacco and the DPAC all got built. As a Durham native, 40 years ago we'd scoot through downtown from the south (near Hope Valley) as quick as we could to get to North Duke Park (just south of 85) where my grandparents lived. And my Dad worried about his parents there; if you went 5 blocks in any direction, you were right back into property crime and joblessness and worse. But Durham today - Duke Hospital is MUCH larger, someone finally realized that Durham is 10 minutes to RTP vs 25-40 from Raleigh, and Durham capitalized much faster than Raleigh on downtown revitalization (to their benefit they had all the old tobacco warehouses).
I'd say every city below/above it in the list is more deserving of the scorn. I would say Keenston is NOT the worst, as the list claims. Rocky Mount, Laurinburg, and especially Lumberton are well below that.
And frankly, possibly in some racist ways, I note he didn't venture west of the Triad. There's plenty of dirt poor jobless and activity-less small towns from Hickory west and north you wouldn't want to move.
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There is an area around NCCU and east Durham you might not want to live in/venture to at night, but the rest of the city is safe and really nice. I lived in South Durham and never felt unsafe either there or downtown or on the western side near Duke. In fact, my wife and I currently live in midtown Raleigh but I work in Durham and she just got a job in downtown Durham...so we are probably about to move there ourselves.
Raleigh has sketchy areas too. That ABC store off Appliance Ct...that has me feeling more unsafe than I ever felt in Durham, haha.
that ABC store >>> ABC store on New Bern Ave near Poole Rd split. You have to ask for your choice at the latter.
But yes, Appliance Ct has 1 or more extended stay ****otels next door.
Yes, because the public schools are still the largest issue with Durham.
it's rather curious. If Durham "cared", then they'd pour more effort into the schools, so that ANYBODY would never think twice about NOT moving there. It could be like an elite "small town" to all the inbounds.
Durham is THE city in the Triangle that *could* stand by itself and be THE place that inbound folks wanted to move their families. Chapel Hill is bound to UNC. Raleigh is bound to state government.
Durham has had the best "culture" scene for adults > 25 since 1990 at least.
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is NOT the worst, as the list claims. Rocky Mount, Laurinburg, and especially Lumberton are well below that.
