Which neighbor do you like better? North Carolina or Maryland

[DownEastB]

I realize the original statements about Durham were made a while ago, but as a recent transplant to NoVA from Durham, it is in no way "a complete pit". Sure, it has bad neighborhoods like any other city, but Durham is starting to become the most desirable place to live in the Triangle. People like to tell themselves that Durham is a bad place to justify their decision to move to overrated, overcrowded, BORING Cary and Wake Forest.

OTOH I've always had a good time whenever I went to Baltimore, but lemme tell ya, the really run-down neighborhoods in B'more make most of the worst areas of Durham look positively upscale. But the MD countryside can be just as pretty if not prettier than the NC countryside. If I had to choose between NC and MD I'd choose NC if only because most of my friends and family are there.

[The Dissenter]

Originally Posted by stpickrell

We'll just leave and take our cash money with us.

As for considering Hampton Roads thugs and trash. we can only lie to ourselves for so long, it's like having a drug addicted brother or something.

At least you guys side with us on transportation issues most of the time, though.

So stop lying to yourself in saying Hampton Roads is h#&@.

757 = Hampton Roads area, aka the Seven Cities of Crime-ola.

This is one aspect of the ongoing in-state rivalry between Northern VA (NoVA) and the freeloaders also known as Rest of Virginia (RoVA).

I liked living in the "7 cities of Crime-ola" better than living in NoVA one big surburb of -ola.

Have you ever been to Hampton Roads, just wondering?

[hiker45]

Originally Posted by EricD

I personally like MD better, but economically NC seems to be on the right track... NC is doing great, but I just can't get past the pine trees (I HATE pine trees)

That's funny, because I don't like pine trees either. I thought I was the only person who felt like this.

Pine trees are all straight and rigid and don't have the free-flowing artistry of a live oak or the other-worldly look of a Joshua tree.

I guess they are good for making paper or something.