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I don’t think there are a lot of cities were downtown or the CBD offers one of the better residential living experiences. Many downtowns are becoming more residential, but they still don’t match up with the premier urban neighborhoods. What cities can/should count downtown as their premier residential neighborhoods. For the sake of discussion, let’s try to place reasonable limits on what we call downtown. I don’t want this to devolve into another discussion where someone tries to claim that all of Manhattan or Northwest DC is “downtown”.
I think downtown Raleigh would be a nice place to live. Since it's a downtown where most people commute into for work during the day, it's pretty quiet at night. Plus you get all the amenities of urban living. Too bad there's not a Target or something in the immediate vicinity.
Could use a department store and full service grocery store, but there is one within a mile to the west(Aldi). There is a bus that goes here in terms of shopping: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_USA
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I think downtown Raleigh would be a nice place to live. Since it's a downtown where most people commute into for work during the day, it's pretty quiet at night. Plus you get all the amenities of urban living. Too bad there's not a Target or something in the immediate vicinity.
Yeah I live in downtown Raleigh, it really is fantastic and will be even better once the publix at Glenwood south is finished. A grocery store is really all that is missing and downtown hasn't become too crowded with residents yet. I can walk everywhere and the Restaurant scene is really improving.
Yeah I live in downtown Raleigh, it really is fantastic and will be even better once the publix at Glenwood south is finished. A grocery store is really all that is missing and downtown hasn't become too crowded with residents yet. I can walk everywhere and the Restaurant scene is really improving.
Does Raleigh have other walkable neighborhoods with amenities?
Yeah I live in downtown Raleigh, it really is fantastic and will be even better once the publix at Glenwood south is finished. A grocery store is really all that is missing and downtown hasn't become too crowded with residents yet. I can walk everywhere and the Restaurant scene is really improving.
Ah, nice! Yeah that's not a bad location for the Publix. I love that part of town where the Redhat tower is. Oak City Meatballs, Buku, Treat. All great places to eat. I have to try that Mexican place on the corner too. Actually, now that I think about it, I think there's two Mexican places across from each other.
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Does Raleigh have other walkable neighborhoods with amenities?
The area around the college is somewhat walkable. There's a lot of restaurants along Hillsborough. Also a new Target over there. It's a decent neighborhood for sure if you don't mind being around the college kids.
Chicago's downtown has quickly shot towards the top of the most desirable areas and is certainly the fastest growing, growing by around 70,000 people in the past 15 years and building around 5,000 to 6,000 new residential units and adding thousands of hotel units and amenities/tourist draws every year.
Chicago's downtown has quickly shot towards the top of the most desirable areas and is certainly the fastest growing, growing by around 70,000 people in the past 15 years and building around 5,000 to 6,000 new residential units and adding thousands of hotel units and amenities/tourist draws every year.
I'm genuinely curious as to what the turnover is like. I know it's anecdotal, but when I lived in Chicago (with the exception of South Loop), no one I knew stayed downtown for more than 1-2 years. They either left Chicago or moved to a more traditional residential neighborhood. I'd rather live in the Loop or River North than, say, Midtown Manhattan, but there are nearly a dozen Chicago neighborhoods I'd choose before downtown. I don't want to live in a place that's overrun by tourists and commuters, and I like having actual local businesses in the neighborhood. I know it's going to sound strange, but living downtown doesn't feel like Chicago living, the same way that Old Town, Gold Coast, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wicker Park, Bucktown, Logan Square etc would.
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