You obviously have never flown into San Diego.
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Just flew out of there Monday!
And it is a pretty special city. 
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I have not. SF, OAK, LAX, even Reno (a bunch!) but never SD. It was on my list till I discovered Italy, lol.
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I don’t blame you on that one. Flying into San Diego you can wave to the people in the office buildings. At least until covid.
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Currently staying in the Gas Lamp District in downtown San Diego. First off the Main Street they close off car traffic at night. It’s freaking awesome and Raleigh needs to do this for Fayetteville & Glenwood ASAP.
2nd they have a lit up crane in LED lights and it’s freaking cool. Would be awesome to see one of DTR’s future cranes to be lit up like this.
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Miami gets its own mega Ferris wheel
The 200-foot high Skyviews Miami Observation Wheel debuted recently at the Bayside Marketplace in Miami, offering views of Biscayne Bay and the city’s skyline.
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This is how micro living should be designed.
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I’d love to see this concept downtown in an apartment building. The concept itself isn’t expensive, it’s smart. This could easily be very affordable and in a dense building, a fantastic way to get lower income people closer to the city center.
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It’s a terrific option for the single, early in career people who want to be downtown.
Get these on the market for under $1000 a month, and you won’t be able to build them fast enough. The same is true for selling. Get them on the market for $500 a foot, and you are in the mid 100s.
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That’s actually a condo project I think could do very well. Don’t offer much in the way of customization to keep the construction logistics more simple and at that price per sqf, they’d sell like hot cakes.
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Clean. Simple. Flexible. Smart style…Yes, please.
*Especially appreciate the contemporary upfit of a Victorian structure to increase density.
Thanks for the share.
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I think Never Too Small is my all time favorite YouTube channel. Love to see these tiny apartments from all over the world. If I were solo (sans wife and kidos), I would 100% be up for living in some of these micro apartments.
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put the kids next door and live in the other unit with just your wife. 
#parentinghack
132-foot building in downtown Chapel Hill. Seems like a big deal I suppose. Guess this would be the equivalent of a 500-ft building in Raleigh?
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/orange-county/article255899941.html
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I do like this and sincerely hope that it becomes the step forward that Chapel-Hill needs to becoming so much more than a college town. I say that merely as a resident of the Triangle and not a resident of the town. I have high hopes of Chapel-Hill and Orange county becoming more than they were. I have always feared them succumbing to a possible collapse due to the required endless tax increases it would take without building up and or out. IMO 
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Always thought Chapel Hill was pretty awesome as it was personally.
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I can certainly understand and agree, mostly. However, as I have found myself visiting friends, traveling there for work etc. Chapel Hill is showing its age and as my friends point out, that requires continual tax increases that the middle and lower income simply can’t continue to afford. Not enough business to help off-set those taxes. Again, just an out-siders opinion. 
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Hi everyone, here’s another long post. I went to visit family for the holidays in Oceanside California, where I’m from. Lots of train pics in this one since the public transportation is pretty decent out there. The Coaster is commuter rail that travels north/south between Oceanside & San Diego Santa Fe Station downtown where you can connect with the SD Trolley System. The Sprinter is light rail that travels east/west between Escondido & Oceanside. Amtrak Surfliner connects San Diego with LA & points north. (Pro Tip): You can use Coaster tickets on Amtrak and vice versa between Oside & SD. It’s actually more of an express train because Amtrak doesn’t stop at all the Coaster stations. Each city has a transit center & getting around is super easy. (Oceanside Transit Center is in lots of these pics.) It’s a great system, especially considering none of the towns have more than 200k people. Other pics include random shots of downtown Oside, as well as La Jolla Coves & Del Mar, where the trains run along the cliffs. Sorry for the long post!
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Gorgeous photos, and no apology needed for the long post.
That said, who’s horrible idea was it to ruin those coastal cliffs with a train track? That just makes me sad!
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