But; still more affordable than other big cities!
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Pretty much nail on the head for me. It’s still got all those things in comparison to the rest of the country.
The most surprising thing I miss about NYC is how accessible the outdoors was. $13 and 1-2 hours of reading or listening to music and the Metro North would have you right at a trailhead to stunning views in the Hudson Highlands. Or the LIRR and NJ Transit would get you to a beach. No sitting in traffic or fretting about whether it’s ok to have that third beer at the brewery. Anyway, off-topic ramble.
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That’s what Lyft is for here (or @GucciLittlePenguin)…you don’t have to go as far to get to the great outdoors. And the trains to Durham, Greensboro, Charlotte are a great resource. Just wish they could add Winston, Asheville, and Wilmington to it.
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Winston, Asheville and Wilmington by train would solve that shortcoming in a hurry!
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Rideshare is getting insanely expensive though (and being a driver for them suuuuuuuuuuucks, especially when people don’t tip). You couldn’t even get out of the city in a Lyft for $13, let alone to Long Island. The only reason the rideshare model works at all is because American public transportation and land use is in terrible shape.
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I was just saying Lyft still works for here if you’ve drank too much, not for NYC to Long Island. That would be insane.
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Oh, for sure, but it ain’t cheap. I was more pointing out that New Yorkers have the option, and the choice is obvious. Here, only some neighborhoods have the option, and the alternatives are often so inconvenient that it’s worth paying the extra anyway.
All I’m really trying to say is, imagine how much better this city would be if we had more viable options.
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Oh! I misunderstood you there. I meant that you could take a train to the mountain/beach town, have your day of activities, put your feet up at the local brewery or bar afterwards for a couple hours, and you’d be fine to explore their menu and still get home because you’re not driving.
If I wanted to to hike at Hanging Rock/Pilot Mountain and go to Foothills or Radar or hit the beach at Wilmington and go to Flying Machine or End of Days, you can’t just Lyft to the train station and get home because there isn’t one. Hardly a dealbreaker, just a quality of life thing.
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I used to be able to get to the airport from DTR for $20-$25. The last few times I looked, it was $60 and no apparent “surge” situation.
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Maybe you were the surge?!
In all realness uber/lyft have become pricier and less reliable. Another reason why a push for better, easily accessible public transit in raleigh is so important.
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Yep. Rideshare is in a death spiral. And, sadly, a lot of cities (including ours, to some extent) really banked on it transforming the way we move around. Now we’re back to where we started with little to show for it.
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I paid $175 a couple weeks ago at 4am from RDU home in DTR. I had ski bags and needed an Uber XL, but still. Makes me reconsider even flying at all, it’s crazy.
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Conversely I can get a Lyft ride right now from my house to RDU for 16 bucks. There’s obviously a lot of factors but I still feel like Lyft and Uber work fine as one of many options for getting around. No solution will be one size fits all.
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yeah, particularly since Whole Foods’ early growth was largely inorganic (ha ha) - they basically rolled up a bunch of existing local natural-foods grocery chains like Wellspring in NC. in western NY state, by contrast, Wegman’s is so dominant that no such business could emerge for WFM to buy. that inorganic growth is because supermarkets are a business where you need scale: because there are near-daily deliveries from a distribution center, you can’t just open stores all over the place.
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charlotte usa based TBJ has a clickbait article today trying to say ‘charlotte usa’ is the preferred option over the Raleigh for ‘young professionals’. Funny how they are selective in their news outlets given a quick google search produces this article…Guess who was ‘preferred’ over the other municipality?
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Man, you loathe that city. Good stuff.
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We don’t loathe the city, we loathe the behavior. 
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Nah, he absolutely loathes that city. It’s pretty much an obsession. They offer therapy for that sort of thing.
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It’s us!
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Oh wait, even more focus from the WSJ:
@John here’s why it only gets one line in the overall article
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