Enjoy Knoxville please and thanks.
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Yall really got to stop engaging with the troll. It’s surprisingly easy to ignore posters in this forum who add nothing constructive or entertaining:
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How am I a troll when I give tough love about this city and state and am willing to be contrary to this forum?
Whats so bad about Knoxville?
Nope, not at all… we’re just not here to discuss Virginia, this is a downtown Raleigh, North Carolina discussion forum - sure I’d love legal weed, though I could really give a shit about sports betting, but with all due respect- can you cut it w/ the Virginia shit unless you have something relevant to the reason we’re all here to discuss?
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am I living in the upside down?? Is it opposite day?? what planet am I on??
I love how you claim VA is so liberal - have ya been to rural VA, man? Like seriously, have you seen the MASSIVE Confederate flag that is flown off hwy 29 outside of Danville? Or the abundance of Trump flags throughout SW VA?
I have no issue with the policy changes you are advocating for but man your logic on comparisons is so so flawed
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I’m bout to if it keeps up. Adding absolutely nothing to this topic of RALEIGH In the News around the country/world.
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Let’s take the weekend off. 
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Raleigh listed 3rd in top 10 of cities with the biggest houses. This doesn’t exactly fit the narrative of creating more density. Also, of all 10, only 3 are east of the Mississippi and 2 of those in N.C.
Back in the day when the acronym for CARY (Containment Area for Relocated Yankees) was a meme before memes were a thing, I came up with one for Raleigh: Relocated And Local Engineers In Giant Houses.
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If I had to guess, those were some of the fastest growing family-friendly cities circa 2000-2005, when land and credit were cheap and house sizes probably reached their zenith.
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Wasn’t sure where else to put this… Axios put together a little “quiz” where you can draw on a map where you think the boundaries are for different local neighborhoods, then see how close you were.
(I obviously don’t think Oakwood is a triangle, just wanted to give y’all an example without giving anything away.)
They did it for a few other cities as well, and you can check it out here:
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I suspect that all of the top cities were able to either develop virgin land within their boundaries or annex and develop virgin land in the last few decades when typical American house size ballooned.
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Well, the headline for this one suggests the article is fit for this thread, then you look at the ranking and it says “Raleigh area NC” then the article says “The Durham school”. Yeah, it’s in Durham, not Raleigh. Lol
Ranked: Raleigh school listed as best high school in the country for 2023
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Maybe a new trend. I have seen a few YouTube’s where say or imply that Durham is a satellite city of Raleigh, Like Fuquay-Vanina or Wake Forest. 
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By and large, nationally it’s seen as the St. Paul to Raleigh’s Minneapolis - the junior partner of a twin cities arrangement.
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But with out the state capitol.
St Paul will always have the claim.