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This question is self-evident. Tell me the answer. When I say cities or towns I, this includes: Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel-Hill, etc.
I am going to have to go with Durham. Presently, it is in a stage where it could break out in a second. People don't even know how fantastic this place is yet. Raleigh has made decent strides as well but I am seeing too many bureaucratic fiascoes in those parts. Chapel-Hill Has retrogressed imo.
This question is self-evident. Tell me the answer. When I say cities or towns I, this includes: Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel-Hill, etc.
I am going to have to go with Durham. Presently, it is in a stage where it could break out in a second. People don't even know how fantastic this place is yet. Raleigh has made decent strides as well but I am seeing too many bureaucratic fiascoes in those parts. Chapel-Hill Has retrogressed imo.
Strides in what way? Jobs? Population growth? Improved Infrastructure? Arts and Entertainment?
Strides in what way? Jobs? Population growth? Improved Infrastructure? Arts and Entertainment? I'm not sure what metric we are comparing here.
And are we measuring how much progress they've made or where they are now relative to one another? Someone who is dead last in a race but closes the gap by half is still dead last, but has made the "biggest strides."
And are we measuring how much progress they've made or where they are now relative to one another? Someone who is dead last in a race but closes the gap by half is still dead last, but has made the "biggest strides."
No a stride is a step. This does not count the relationship between something else. This is a question in and of itself.
Just off the top of my head, Raleigh in the last 5 years:
Opening of Fayetteville Street
New Convention Center
City Square
Wilmington St. restaurant row
RLine Bus Service
Free WiFI DT
Hundreds of new condos DT
North Hills/Midtown emergence
50,000+ new residents
Soon to be complete this year:
DT amphitheater
North Hills East expansion
New North Carolina Museum of Art
Also under construction:
Green Square
Blount St. Commoms
Nope, nothing going on in Raleigh at all...that's self evident. Too much bureaucracy
I see Cary is doing really well in the poll. I guess I'm just not familiar enough with what has happened in the last five years there. Obviously growth, but what else other than the growing population, shopping centers, and restaurants? I'm familiar with what has gone on in Durham and Raleigh, which has been great and only getting better
I see Cary is doing really well in the poll. I guess I'm just not familiar enough with what has happened in the last five years there. Obviously growth, but what else other than the growing population, shopping centers, and restaurants? I'm familiar with what has gone on in Durham and Raleigh, which has been great and only getting better
Just curious, thanks!
I think the diff. is Cary isn't up and coming,it's already there.Clean,polished,well behaved,well manicured with a ton of shopping,dining.
Some of Durham's improvement over the past 5 years:
Downtown streetscape improvements
Durham Performing Arts Center
Golden Belt
Kress
Rogers Alley
Continued improvements around Brightleaf & Ambacco
Durham Station
Central Park
Farmers Market
Many new restaurants & condos
More & more shopping around Southpoint
15-501 improvements
I-85 widening
Historic Durham Athletic Park restoration
Kings Daughters Inn
Improving DPS test scores & dropout rates
Lower crime rates
Etc...
And there are very ambitious development plans for Durham on the horizon...just look at what Scientific, Greenfire, etc... have in the works; it's exciting stuff!
I would be curious to see a similar list for Cary given the significant votes in the poll.
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