That’s still far from a given in a Raleigh January
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I always thought of Raleigh’s (lack of) identity as a problem with marketing, government, and/or citizen engagement. …but I wonder if architects and designers need to be a part of this conversation, too?
From the article @scotchman/@UncleJesse posted in the Dix Park thread:
https://raleighmag.com/2020/02/raleighs-iconic-architecture-past-present-and-future/
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2 posts were merged into an existing topic: Pictures of Downtown Raleigh
Guess who makes #1?
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Ahh, this is much better than your first link, lol.
Glad he said Raleigh and not Raleigh-Durham ha
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Cool List. Too much Talky… 
“Pretty much the perfect city, except for…?” 
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Yeah - I also find the guys voice very annoying.
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The funny thing is that Durham-Chapel Hill qualified under the same criteria (500,000 - 1,5000,000) and they didn’t even make honorable mention.
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Other than the lack of mass transit, which is true Raleigh is pretty Cool, But I hope that will change soon.
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This guy sounds like the male version of a
valley girl…valley guy?..annoying voice.
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If you watch his video for Best Medium Cities, Charlotte USA is #6. Nashville is on the list too, but I don’t recall its rank.
The Triangle is a mid sized metro area that isn’t really competing in the same category as Boise or Colorado Springs.
Only due to the census artificially pretending Raleigh and Durham are separate did we sneak in. And when I say ‘we’ I of course mean ‘you’ since I live in the Durham half, but never mind.
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Raleigh would have fared well if it were in the larger category. In a few years, Raleigh’s MSA will be over 1.5 million by itself anyway. It’s growing nearly 30,000 a year and was 1.39M last year.
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Please forgive me for sounding kinda cynical here, but is there a reason why I should be caring about this video?
We’ve already established that Raleigh and Durham are ranked pretty well for cost of living, air quality, pre-COVID job availability etc., as well as how it’s hard to get a full picture of the Triangle as a whole because Raleigh and Durham are in separate MSAs.
The YouTuber with the annoying voice and his production capability makes him look irrelevant, too. So… uh… what’s the headline, here? 
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I think census correct the merged MSAs is gonna merge us together cause then solely they’ll shrink without us.
Does census make the MSAs decisions or the local government???
The Office of Management and Budget (a part of offices that report directly to the White House) is in charge of defining MSAs and CSAs.
It looks like Combined Statistical Areas weren’t introduced until 2003, when rule changes based on the 2000 Census came into play. That’s when Raleigh and Durham were split up by MSAs but held together in CSAs -and it’s stayed that way because no one has complained to the OMB about on it since.
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Say, isn’t there some type of process/survey/votes that would allow an option to make these types of changes from the White House? I seem to remember in the Obama Administration they allowed that option?
Well i think we should complain to it, I will for sure.