July 26, 2005

Spraleigh

Forbes magazine recently ranked Raleigh Durham the #2 place in the nation to do business.

Unfortunately, a sidebar in the same section points out:

"Smart Growth America, a Washington, D.C. land use group, recently ranked the Raleigh-Durham area third worst of 83 metro areas overall for urban sprawl, just behind Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif. and Greensboro, N.C."

Ouch...

But, it's true. This town has way too many strip-malls, and getting anywhere requires way too much driving. Oh what I wouldn't give to be able to walk to (work | the grocery store | the bar). Just thinking about I-40 makes me want go to the bar right now.

In Local, Matters that are otherwise worthwhile

Posted by Josh Staiger at 10:07 PM

Comments

Don't forget that Forbes also recently ranked Raleigh as the #4 best location for singles. Personally, I don't agree.

However, as far as urban sprawl, as much as I contribute to it from Zebulon on weekends (I work in Wilson), I will say that things are much zippier in this part of the county. Especially since the new bypass opened making my trips into both Raleigh and Knightdale much easier. We folks in east Wake are in a very pleasant mood lately!

Posted by: Michael July 27, 2005 06:49 PM | Permanent link