Good bait there, @Boltman.
Will he fall for it? Find out on the next episode of Dragonball Z!
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Fall for what?..that it’s not reasonably walkable?
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That’s about the best response you could’ve given him lol.
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Seems like a perfect Lidl location…
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That Food Lion services a ton of low income housing. I don’t buy the argument of a food desert in east downtown. Hard to walk to a grocery store and carry all your Cherrios back anyway. Oakwood stroller pushers won’t walk there, but it is very close.
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I’d generally agree that food desert seems a little dramatic. When it comes to driving, there are many convenient grocery stores. Personally I do the 15 minute drive north to Wegmans most weeks, which works just fine and isn’t even the closest option.
But despite how close a drive these places are, they’re really not walkable or even bikeable, safely. That would be a nice convenience, we’re a 1 car household. The first grocery store I can bike to and back in sub-10 minutes (without having to brave a 4-lane overpass) has my business.
The nice thing about hyper-local stores is you don’t have to carry a week’s worth of groceries home, you can go every other day and pick things up fresh, 1 or 2 bags worth.
I’m not complaining about what we have today, though. Just dreaming of what could be.
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I will admit you may be most authentic urbanist on this forum. I just see the 99% like my wife who still manages to go the grocery store multiple times a week but returns with 200lbs of kombucha, paper towels, dog treats, and other stuff that is not even for me.
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Not that it means anything but I live within walking distance of a Food Lion (and a good tap room, and a coffee shop, and 4 solid restaurants) and I do in fact walk there for most of my groceries. Hey, the hispanic section is solid. I’m not a hater.
In true Durham fashion there’s no sidewalk between me and any of that though, and there probably never will be. So I’m walking with a headlamp in tall grass next to a pretty busy road in the dark. Not fun.
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Since the Publix was built in Smoky Hollow, I haven’t driven there once. I bought a trolley dolly shopping bag off amazon and can stuff quite a bit in it to drag along my walk home. If needed, I also can carry a long strap shopping bag on the opposite shoulder.
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https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article276838466.html
The NC legislature has got to give municipalities more authority to shut down or seize properties like this. RPD advised them to “stop accepting cash”. In 2023 the only places that accept cash are “low end”.
Maybe the Department of Revenue has some authority……we all know why Patel accepts cash……because he most likely isn’t reporting most of it as income.
That’s hippie stuff. You have to take 3 showers from the hot walk back. I’ve got you covered though:
Y’all know that I just read this to see what is being said about my neighborhood. And all of Raleigh is my neighborhood…having lived from south raleigh to north raleigh and all points in between for the last 63 years.
“In 2023 the only places that accept cash are “low end””. Really? I don’t consider my consulting business low end and I am happy to accept cash. When I sell a book and someone wants to pay me cash, I take that as well. I am not a low end consultant - in fact I expect and give first class (over and above) service in all the work that I do now and have ever done.
When did it become out of fashion to accept cash? Have you noticed the number of banks in SE Raleigh? There is a Truist, Mechanics & Farmers, and a State Employees Credit Union. Where do you think that people “bank”? Did you realize that if you are making just barely enough and your bills are due the same day as you get paid, you can’t deposit a check and get the cash out the same day in many instances. If you don’t have access to adequate transportation, you also can’t guarantee getting to the bank after work ends with that check. You can get to the 24/7 check cashing place and get cash to pay your bills or western union them or pay your utilities out of that same check.
Yes, some companies use the debit cards to put your check on, but again that can be problematic. And, I am not telling you anything that I haven’t had to personally deal with. You have a narrow view of life because you can have it. Life is not always as easy as you try to make it be from YOUR point of view. Your point of view is very narrow. And it can be.
RPD is not looking at ways to help the people who live in crisis everyday. They are there to deal with people who are “causing problems” in some way. People who live day to day or paycheck to paycheck have a hard time finding an apartment for rent in this neighborhood that once was a place where they could afford to live. I have said before and I will say again, that as a retired state employee, if I wasn’t able to create other opportunities for myself at my age, the $2079 check I receive monthly (after my $700 health insurance payment) would not allow me to pay my rent, grocery bill, utilities, gas/transportation either and I would be trying to get a room at the new “hotel/apartments” on the edge of the city as well.
Look at the red spots. Those are the banks and ATMS in downtown and SE Raleigh.
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If the residents of southeast Raleigh are ok with it , so be it. The tolerance and acceptance of some things that goes down in that part of the city bewildered me, so I left.
you say hippie like it’s a bad thing.
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Not bad just insinuating that hippie is counter culture and not representative of the larger population.
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1601 New Bern continues to move slowly but progressing. The retaining wall appears finished & the awful chainlink fence is gone…garden patio perhaps???
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When I drove by this afternoon there were a hand full of workers dinking around out front tossing things in dumpsters etc. At least something is going on.
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Looks like Taco Roos is no more, and will now become Roos Chicken. The article says they will serve breakfast? Let’s just hope it’s similar to Mami Noras.
TBJ article :
Cook Out has a new restaurant in Raleigh, but it’s not a Cook Out - Triangle Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
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