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First Impressions, Raleigh/Durham

"It feels crowded for no reason"

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Addison Del Mastro
Aug 16, 2022
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I don’t like the Raleigh/Durham suburbs in North Carolina.

That was my conclusion back in 2019, when my wife and I visited a friend who was living there at the time. We were getting ready for a fishing trip down in Wilmington, and it felt like we were going back and forth for miles. I got the feeling that it was a kind of centerless, spread-out place, wi…

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