Trade my face for hair? hmmmmm??? Maybe?
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but sea level needs to rise 200 feet+ for Raleigh to be the new Wilmington. That ain’t happening in 10-15 years under any circumstances.
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Boston is one of the best places I’ve ever visited. The walk ability is fantastic, and the history! For a life-long history nerd it is just a gold mine.
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I really enjoy Boston as a place to visit. I am not sure that I could survive the long dark Winters though.
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Agreed. I don’t even mind visiting the snow, but I would not want to do a whole winter. The other hold back, at least for me, would be the cost of living, esp housing, lol.
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Sunset at 4:11PM is just not something that I can do.
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Even the 5:00 vs 5:30 in Atlanta was a hard adjustment for me here this past winter.
I am about 30-40 miles from the time zone line, so try 4:30 winter sunsets!!!
Strangest place I ever stayed was a hotel in Indiana where the lobby and the room were set to different times.
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New York City’s mayor etc. announced that they’re looking for partners to help create a “living laboratory”. for how climate change affects cities (and how urban development can be resilient to it) on Governors Island. This made me wonder just how experimental Raleigh is willing to be, both now and in the future.
This follows the proposal that the urban design firm WXY proposed last year, where they drew up an idea of the wooded island being turned into something like this:
This is sort of like what Raleigh’s been doing/will do with Chavis, Dix, and Devereux parks: New York has been trying to make this former military base and prison into a green destination, and wants to take this even further now. This Climate Solutions Center will get all of the research about how to build hurricane- or drought-resistant buildings or how to prevent recent disasters in Texas or the Pacific Northwest, and bring it to ordinary people.
I wonder if there’s a policy space for Raleigh to encourage developers, NCSU and other universities etc. to try and build more creatively (instead of just making the cheapest, blandest building that happens to attract tenants and investors)?
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For all you pedestrian bridge / municipal beautification folx out there :
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First stop on our long overdue road trip: Baltimore! Let’s talk about some Raleigh goals…
First, when I think of living walls, this would be awesome to see (probably terrible to maintain) - Also a PNC building, btw.
Then, snazzy art AND water features all nested in a roundabout. (As if people in Raleigh needed another reason to delay getting through them, amirite? 
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Lastly, breweries in old Catholic churches (built 1857). Nothing else to say.
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There’s also a giant new Whole Foods as the ground floor retail near our hotel on the harbor. Would love to see one of those downtown in Raleigh…
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Yeah, a harbor would be AWESOME for Raleigh.
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Lol!
Can we just flood Garner? 
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Southside Chattanooga: “missing middle” six-plex, two-story apartments (rents affordable at 80% of AMI) mixed among new homeownership units (prices affordable at 100% of AMI). No government subsidy on these; even the land was purchased.
CNE's new houses in Highland Park-Ridgedale, Chattanooga by Payton Chung, on Flickr
CNE's new houses in Highland Park, Chattanooga by Payton Chung, on Flickr
In the 2nd photo, the mid-block 1-story houses are affordable 2BR cottages, but the last house looks like a market-rate 2-story house. The tall house is what gentrification looks like, not the apartments.
Imagine if <$1000/month rentals were among the new homes in, say, East College Park.
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Stopped in Jacksonville, FL last night on the way to St Pete. Cool lights on a couple of bridges and buildings but other than that, man that is one sleepy sad downtown. We have to admire the level of after work hour activity that goes on in Raleigh
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I’ve bee multiple times years ago and I have had the same impression of downtown Jacksonville. It seems event, mainly sports, driven around The Landing. Looks cool but it’s quiet if you randomly drop into town. Not for me.
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I agree, I went there for a track track meet a few years ago and it was very boring downtown and there was an abandoned and unfinished condo tower on the side where the Jaguar stadium is located.
