Lovingly referred to by the locals as “The Penis of the Plains.” Even comes equipped with a little man standing on top sowing his seed!
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My least favorite in North Carolina’s.
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It’s really nice for a rural county courthouse 
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This capitol hate is not acceptable. Considering it bankrupted the state to build it, we should be gratiful we have it all. That we could never afford to add on to it leaves us with an epic and classic structure. Yes, there are bigger county court houses, wake’s included, but what NC has is a gem. If you want big and showy, go SC or Va.
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I actually like our Capitol. It may not be big, but it’s attractive. There are a lot of ugly ones out there!
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I was mostly teasing, because I know some of you guys love it. It’s definitely not my favorite, but I’m not hating on it for real.
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I like Oregon’s too, and a LOT of people hate that one.
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NC’s Capitol is unique that the legislative bodies the House and Senate meet in their own building. I just toured the Mississippi Capitol and they have an older one that looked like ours from 1839. It is a museum. The NC Legislature Building is really nice if you have not toured it as you can M-F and there is a little cafeteria in the basement that is pretty good. Here is the Missisippi Capitol and the governor has his office across the street on the top floor of a 20 story office building in Jackson. How did MS pay for this Capitol? It settled a back tax lawsuit with a RR company and used the $1 M to build this capitol in early 1910s.
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Couple of more of the MS State Capitol. Notice how MS have several high rise state office buildings I wish NC government would build more high rises offices downtown.
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Oh my favorite state capitol building bar none is Texas due to its massive size over 1 M square foot and half of it is underground. I have been to about 30 of them too.
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I visited the Texas capitol this past Summer. It’s big and impressive, but I am not a fan of the stone color, and I’m not a fan of their giant Confederate monument.
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Well that’s odd… Didn’t someone on their city council just get pushed out because of corruption?
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Oregon State has a large online / distance learning population. They have 11,000+ online-only students, which is almost 1/3 of their enrollment. It’s pretty well-regarded too; I believe they are consistently in the top 10 online learning programs.
My wife and I visited Corvallis in June 2022, and we had similar thoughts. It’s a cozy college town, but a little sleepier than we were expecting considering we were there during graduation. (In fact, the reason we were there was because I was graduating from their online Computer Science post-bacc / second bachelors program… so I am a little bit biased.)
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I was born there, and I’m a little bit biased too.
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I think it’s meant such that Cary used to exist as a bedroom community for people whose jobs were in Raleigh, whereas that really isn’t primarily true. It has come into its own independent existence in the past 20 years and has its own draws, as others have pointed out. It’s growth and success doesn’t depend on Raleigh anymore, or at very least anything what it did 20+ years when it truly was a Raleigh suburb.
But it depends on what you consider “suburbs” though…For example: To me, Cameron Village and North Hills are both “in the suburbs” as they’re not “in downtown Raleigh.” They’re primarily historically single family home neighborhoods that have gotten commercially developed in a small core area of their respective neighborhoods. I think most reasonable people would not view Cameron Village or North Hills as being independently walkable to most everything else in the core of Raleigh, and people who live in CV or NH need a car to function for most practical purposes.
They’re built up developed areas in the city limits of Raleigh, though, and they certainly compete with downtown Raleigh for energy/vibes/real estate development. So by that definition, Cary is suburban to Raleigh and always will be.
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That is a very broad definition of suburbs. The edge of the Village District is about a 15 minute walk from Glenwood South along Peace Street. The route has sidewalks the whole way. And if you didn’t want to walk on Peace Street, you could walk it on Johnson. I strongly disagree that “most reasonable people” would not view that as walkable.
You are entitled to your opinion, but in my opinion, Village District is “in town” even if it isn’t downtown. It certainly isn’t “in the suburbs.”
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we can agree to disagree on what’s suburbs. It’s 100% not downtown, as you agree. Everything else, including North Hills, is “in town” meaning I guess the city limits. But it’s a very suburban shopping center, in fact the 1st one between DC and Atlanta ever built. Here’s a quote from the developer family:
Smedes, who’s now chairman of the board for York Properties, was 8 years old when his father opened the first suburban shopping center between Washington, D.C., and Atlanta.
Within the “district” as they like to call themselves now, it’s very walkable…Certainly anyone can walk anywhere they want, but I think only one person on this forum would walk regularly from say the capitol or the convention center all the freaking way out to Cameron Village. Most would drive especially if one will be shopping and have bags of whatever they buy there.
In town and suburban kind of blend together, but CV is definitely not “downtown.” The city has a specific tax district of downtown, and it doesn’t even go West past St. Mary’s, let alone way out to Cameron Village.
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I do not think of the Village District (where I now reside) as being “downtown” (where I lived for the previous six years).
However I have walked from the West street area of the Christmas plan’s “walkable city” edge to the western edge of the District before. It’s a pleasant shady walk and took the same amount of time as waiting for and riding the next bus, so a viable option.
Note that it is two thirds the distance that DTS (“South of Downtown”?) is from South Street (the southern edge of the Christmas plan) and a heck of a lot more pleasant to walk.
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Here is the tallest Capitol in the US the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge. 34 stories and 450 feet completed in 1932. It is very impressive but let me tell NC may have a small state Capitol but Raleigh is much better city than any of these capital cities I have been to recently like Jackson or Baton Rouge. But if this could have been built in Raleigh in the 1930s…
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