I'm happy to listen if you have a case to make for somewhere.
Well, I don't think I could convince you to come to LA, and I'd gag on my own tongue before trying to sell MI to anyone. I was just being a nosy spectator.
You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
The Crying of Natter 49
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jan 20, 2007 1:54:34 pm PST #4512 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dana - Jan 20, 2007 1:54:44 pm PST #4513 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
a neighborhood may be half a dozen blocks in each direction, and some great ones can be right next to the ones that some realtors will drive the long way around so you never set eyes on them.
Yeah, it sounds like New Orleans.
Dana - Jan 20, 2007 1:56:52 pm PST #4514 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Michigan -- too cold. LA -- too expensive. Between the two of us, we have a slightly ridiculous list of criteria.
flea - Jan 20, 2007 2:14:50 pm PST #4515 of 10001
information libertarian
Raleigh, in my limited experience (we lived there for 6 months when we first moved down here, right by the university which you should definitely avoid) has a very small area of housing older than about 1950. There's a fancy, and tiny, neighborhood of turn-of the century houses near downtown, a bunch of urban neighborhoods of 1950s era housing, some of which is nice and some of which is ranch houses, and then endless suburbia, some of which is very nice indeed but rather anonymous and definitely not walkable. If I had to live in Raleigh I'd look at the Five Points neighborhood, which is in town and funky and has a great pizzeria, but I gather is quite expensive. I was stunned when I moved to Raleigh, after having lived only in New England and Ohio, how tiny the place must have been before the 1950s. Really, Durham was a bigger place than Raleigh before WW2 is my impression.
People I know who have jobs in Raleigh/RTP (or a couple with jobs in both Raleigh and Durham) tend to live in Southern Durham, down by I-40 - Woodcroft is a neighborhood. It's all cul-de-sacs - nice houses, circa 1980s, but pretty suburban. Fine if you like to drive everywhere, and there are some good parks and bike trails.
Jesse - Jan 20, 2007 2:19:18 pm PST #4516 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
beth b - Jan 20, 2007 2:29:46 pm PST #4517 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
buy the real one and teach the kid to make coffeee
Dana - Jan 20, 2007 2:30:19 pm PST #4518 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thanks so much for all of the advice. I'm reading and reading it outloud to the husband. It's also a definite possibility that I'll ask for realtor recommendations.
DavidS - Jan 20, 2007 2:37:23 pm PST #4519 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Consuela - Jan 20, 2007 2:40:08 pm PST #4520 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oy, back home finally. So happy to be home in my own space again.
The hotel in Colorado was almost (but not quite) Winchester-worthy, with weird brass silhouettes of buffalo, bear, and moose on much of the furnishings. But hey, relatively cheap, free HBO and wireless. Could have been worse.
And I got out before the snow started up again, go me!
Kat - Jan 20, 2007 2:40:26 pm PST #4521 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
David, she's beautiful and Bev that is a lovely lovely lovely dress.