The arc from Chapel Hill>South Durham>Southern RTP>West Cary>West Apex is a reasonable commute from Pittsboro and vice versa, but I think it’s a real stretch to imagine someone commuting to either downtown Raleigh or Durham from there, but there are commuters from Clayton to RTP and that’s a similar haul.
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Yeah, my mom made the commute from Pittsboro to DTR for a few years before she retired. I can see it as an empty nester, though it did wear her down, but not for a parental figure in a family.
Pittsboro itself is only 4 square miles. When Chatham Park is built out it will house 40,000 residents mostly within these city limits. May end up being the most densely populated city in the state. I encourage anyone who has not been to Pittsboro lately to check it out. With VinFast only about 10 miles away, Wolfspeed about 19, and new UNC health campus in Chatham Park there is plenty of employment very nearby coming soon.
Eastern Chatham County is not cheap, much different than Johnston County. Lots of spillover from Chapel Hill in luxury home communities. How this develops over next 20 years will be quite interesting.
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It’ll be interesting to see if Pittsboro stays that way (bedroom community). I just think with all the proposed developments like VinFast, Wolfspeed, Toyota, and Boom Supersonic in the area, it would shock me if there weren’t large changes to Pittsboro and it starts to look like it’s Western Wake neighbors (Apex and Holly Springs).
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Easier drive down 64 to 540 than that nightmare drive on 40/70 from Clayton. Easy to RTP and Chapel Hill via 15/501. Lots of retirees live in or near Pittsboro with no commute whatsoever.
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Pittsboro is like Chapel Hill light. Older demographic currently, very protective about development. One of the reasons Chatham County has the highest average home price in the state. I think Siler City and Sanford may eventually get more of the affordable housing aspects of what is coming.
Yeah I’m stressing merging Raleigh-Cary MSA and Durham-Chapel Hill MSA need t o happen. And I’m afraid it might not what can I do to get this rally moving. Don’t know if Raleigh city council has a say in it or not. But everything we want relies on this merger.
Not sure if this belongs here or in the Raleigh in the News thread, but here is yet another analysis showing our population growth.
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The one downside to Raleigh-Cary & Durham-Chapel Hill merging into one singular MSA is that the growth rate stats will be diminished since the Durham side is only growing at about half the rate as the Raleigh side. Considering that the population of the Raleigh side of the Triangle more than doubles Durham’s, Raleigh-Cary’s nearly double rate of growth is even more impressive.
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It okay it still should happen cause it in the long term we can make up for it.
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It will still happened looks like it will thank goodness. But I don’t think I’ll hurt so much. Plus Raleigh will still take all the credit.
Interesting post from Wake Economic Development Director on LinkedIn regarding Raleigh’s demographic growth
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The growth rate should reflect the real growth of the Triangle–which would still be very impressive although not #2 if merged.
It seems like there has been net migration from Durham to Wake county so the Raleigh MSA looks artificially higher and the Durham MSA artificially lower.
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Well, based on how the OBM looks at their metro areas, there’s nothing artificial about it because it’s 2 different metros. If ever recombined, it will definitely change and the Triangle will drop.
As it stands, it’s been interesting to collect data about migration within the Triangle and that it’s objectively more Raleigh centric. There have been narratives out there in the past that there was more energy around Durham than Raleigh, but the data just doesn’t support that.
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Playing with the tool, Raleigh lands as the #1 place for young adult migration from Charlotte, Greensboro, Fayetteville, Asheville, Wilmington, Boone, & Jacksonville. Charlotte is #1 for Gastonia & Hickory, and Greensboro is #1 for Winston-Salem.
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That could be a downside of the merger again tryna find official word of it if there actually merging but still Wake County, will carry the wait always. Just focus on that urban area.
People still quote the Raleigh-Cary MSA as to why we too small to have things like more sports teams. It will benefits it us in the end.
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It will and Raleigh/Wake will continue to carry the lion’s share of the growth for years to come. Johnston will be second and Durham Co. will be third.
Jacksonville, FL, a metro that’s a couple hundred thousand larger than Raleigh’s MSA already has a pro football team and the Triangle blows it away in size. Raleigh and Austin are hard sells for major league sports due to the university sports in their metros. Austin also has to contend with San Antonio not so far away.
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This should not be a hindrance for MLB or MLS who play during the college gap period.
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It shouldn’t be but it sure seems like pro sports lead with Football and Basketball, proving that pro sports can work in a city. It’s still rather shocking to me that NHL came to Raleigh and the Triangle when it was much, much smaller.
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