This is a big deal for Cary (and the Raleigh area by extension):
35,000 people in town
for an international soccer tournament in Cary June 5-10. It’s TST “The Soccer Tournament” at Wakemed Soccer Park with 1,500 player, 56 teams, 118 matches
winner takes all ONE MILLION DOLLAR PRIZE
https://thetournament.com/tst/
Looks like we drive the most according to this Axios article:
That’s a number I’m not really proud of personally but:
Commuting has got to be the big contributor here. Triangle has at least 4 main job centers: DTR, DTD, RTP, and Chapel Hill. It’s common for people from anywhere in the Triangle to commute to anywhere else in the Triangle.
Side note: listened to a podcast recently with the chief economist of Cox Automotive, apparently 2023 set a new record for car miles driven. Remote work doesn’t decrease automotive miles in aggregate for two main reasons. They tend to have more home deliveries, increasing delivery vehicle miles. And WFH generates more, less efficient, trips for errands. Ex: you’re not stopping at the grocery store on the way home from the office or getting your haircut on your lunch break at the barber shop down the street.
I thought people might find this graphic interesting, didn’t see a better thread to drop it in. Raleigh is #1 out of the top 50 metro areas for vehicle miles/traveled per adult.
Is there a generally accepted metric for determining when a City gets to drop the state name next to it on these type of lists?
Yeah, when most people have heard of it and know where it is.
Do ‘most’ people in America not know where Raleigh is at this point?
They’re also calling out Boise, Idaho just in case anyone was getting them confused with the other Boises.
Americans are pretty bad at geography. I suspect a third of them don’t remember which Carolina Raleigh is the capital of and unfortunately… may not be sure how many Carolinas there even are.
Those that failed their 4th grade capitals test?
The New York Times utilizes the AP Style Guide for publishing, which has a list of cities that do not require the state upon mention. Raleigh is not on that last, so will always have North Carolina alongside it for most publications.
Imagine graduating from college and then deciding to spend your 20s in Oklahoma City.
I understand this. There must be some metric they use other than putting a finger in the air that allows a city to drop the state when listed. I’m wondering what that is.
I don’t think most people in America could find their home state on a map. The general public are idiots.
I couldn’t, but there’s also people that I know that can’t fathom why anyone would spend their 20s in cities not NYC, LA, or Miami. To each their own.
Yet they somehow all seem to know where Newark is.
As far as my understanding goes, it’s entirely based on recognizability and the ability of the reader to quickly understand the location with as little frivolous detail as possible. So in short, it’s not based on any hard data. Plus, I don’t believe the list has been updated recently and even if it was, I think Raleigh would still require the NC tag.
This is also exactly why driving is so dangerous around here.
