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Raleigh and Durham are a good 30 minutes apart. Very different cities with very different vibes IMO, with Durham having a much more urban feel. Before I moved here I did refer to it as either Raleigh-Durham or RDU, but after living here I realize this is not the way! I very rarely go to Raleigh, only to go to Walnut Creek or Red Hat really. Chapel Hill and Raleigh are 40 minutes apart. Now that being said Raleigh, Cary and Morrisville all feel and look like one big suburb. They just mesh together. Haha, in fact I work on TW Alexander in RTP/Durham, but the Food Lion 1.1 mile down the road has a Morrisville address. The Anytime Fitness in the very same complex has a Raleigh address.
I would say Raleigh is the more urban of the two. Durham, however, is the funkier one.
FTR, roadpony, Record Bar started in Durham. Record Bar #1 was there. Record Bar #2 was on Henderson St in Chapel Hill and was replaced by #3 which was in downtown Chapel Hill on Franklin Street.
FTR, roadpony, Record Bar started in Durham. Record Bar #1 was there. Record Bar #2 was on Henderson St in Chapel Hill and was replaced by #3 which was in downtown Chapel Hill on Franklin Street.
Thanks, but all I meant was that Chapel Hill had one before Raleigh did. That was one of the many things that made Saturdays in Chapel Hill special for this "kid" in the mid to late 60's. The one I remember was on Franklin St.
That was #3. The Bergmans, who started the company, were from Durham and Chapel Hill. That's why there was one in Chapel Hill before there was one in Raleigh.
it has infrequently been referred to as Raleigh-Durham, NOT by folks from around here, for a very long time.
It used to be a single MSA, but with the growth of Cary, they split apart. In my personal opinion, between the MSA and the airport name, that was about 95% of the cause of it's use and misuse.
I feel like people in the northeast always call it Raleigh-Durham because of an old airline commercial that ran in the 80s that mentioned it this way. They think it's one big city.
One day recently I was telling someone about Durham and she corrected me to tell me it was Raleigh-Durham (um...I live here, weirdo)
I would say Raleigh is the more urban of the two. Durham, however, is the funkier one.
I find it interesting that there is a clear split between people thinking which city is more urban. To me Durham is way more urban and moving further that way. Raleigh seems more suburban to me. I guess I can see why people could feel one way or the other. That said, Durham appears to be focusing everything on downtown now.
I'm an airline nerd so I'll also refer to cities by their airport codes. DCA, ORD, ATL, MSP, PDX, BWI, FLL, LAS, DFW, etc
I also almost exclusively say Raleigh Durham. It flows together so well. I feel like, honestly, no one outside of the Raleigh Durham area has ever heard of the name Triangle. Even in other parts of the state like Charlotte, Wilmington, Asheville. Maybe The triad does for the simple fact they're also a triangle.
Its generally pointless for me to say "Triangle" as I would have to explain that it's the Raleigh Durham area.
I think both cities can stand alone, but I just think Raleigh Durham had a ring to it. As does Dallas Fort Worth. Nice. I like it.
I feel like, honestly, no one outside of the Raleigh Durham area has ever heard of the name Triangle. Even in other parts of the state like Charlotte, Wilmington, Asheville. Maybe The triad does for the simple fact they're also a triangle.
Well, you'd be wrong. I'm a native North Carolinian who did not grow up in the Triangle although I live here now and I certainly knew where the Triangle and the Triad were as well as the Tri-Cities (Johnson City TN, Bristol TN/VA and Kingsport TN).
Raleigh-Durham is the airport.
If you want to say something hyphenated Raleigh-Cary would make more sense or Durham-Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill and Durham run up against each other. Raleigh and Durham don't even really share a border.
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