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I lived in Fville for 5 years and former military. Durham is the Fville of NC. Yeah, there are some good spots, but overall it is dump. It is like our own personal Detroit.
Yup Durham for the most part is a dump in my opinion much like FayetteNam.
With all the apartment complexes going up on Chapel Hill Boulevard and the 9th Street area, I do wonder if we are starting to get to be too big especially in these small areas. I worry that 9th Street will no longer be the quaint shopping and eating area it is today.
Shut the frount door! You mean they don't take all crime victims across county lines and dump then in Durham? How can that be? LOL. Honestly, crime happens in every small town and large city and even in rural areas.
I really don't understand why people get all pearly-clutchey over Durham.
I really don't understand why people get all pearly-clutchey over Durham.
People are easily-led and don't do much thinking in general. I've found the folks who flap their gums have never set foot in Durham, going instead by what they "heard" or their handful of trips visiting their Uncle Rollo in McDougald Terrace and nowhere else in the city. Fayetteville and Durham are not really similar. I've heard all kinds of bootleg comparisons. I've heard folks say that Durham is "just like" Brooklyn, NY, Detroit, Baltimore and Chicago. I have even heard newcomers who moved here from those cities say "Oh, I don't go to Durham, it's too dangerous." If you are from Chicago and you "can't" go to Durham, you really have gotten brand-new since moving to NC.
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Originally Posted by chellemi808
I love Durham and plan to move there from Cary as soon as my son graduates high school next year. I wish I had known more about it before my company moved there because I feel like I have been missing out for the last five years.
A Starbucks barista who used to work near my house (in Raleigh) told me goodbye one day, that he was transferring to the store in Durham. "Moving to Durham, huh?" I asked. "Yep", he said. "I used to talk junk about it like everybody else, until I actually spent some time there and found out I loved it."
Durham has a great vibe and like any other city there are certain places you have a few pockets that would be best to avoid or again be street smart about who is around. Can say the same for Wake County along parts of Capital Blvd as well as DT Raleigh.
I laugh at these comments to even compare Durham and Fayetteville in the same sentence tells me you have no clue about Durham except maybe you watched an HBO documentary that was spinned by some white guy having a moment.
I have to admit I have no idea what that phrase means, and even Google didn't help.
A play off the phrase "clutching your pearls".
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