RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

Chris Rossi wrote:

> In several articles I've read, as well as in phone calls to the office, 
> they keep talking about how awful it is that they have lost businesses 
> like webslingerZ to Chapel Hill.  We liked Carrboro much better than our 
> present location, but couldn't find any affordable space there when we 
> needed more room.  So we're out by Timberlyne now, which isn't awful, 
> but not nearly as cool as being in downtown Carrboro. 

Hmm, so we're talking maybe up-to-date large-scale office space rather 
than little storefront retail type stuff. I can see that, as so much of 
Carrboro is little-storefront-retail or little standalone buildings.

In that case, bring it on!

> > Seems like Carrboro is in greater need of affordable housing.
> Seems like you need both, or else you end up with a suburb type 
> situation where everybody lives in one place and works in another and 
> clogs the roads twice a day getting from one to the other.

Well, sure, but Carrboro is doomed to be & remain a UNC bedroom 
community, and the housing pressure from Chapel Hill has been pushing 
into Carrboro for ages now, which is why shitty rundown mill houses with 
no insulation rent for $1200 & upward a month. I should know: I used to 
live in one ;-)

I live out in the boonies now, and I hate that I've doomed myself to a 
long commute, especially since the broadband options out where I live 
are slim & none, so telecommuting isn't really feasible.

But I'm going to have to wait til I hit the lottery to do much about 
that. When that happens, though, somebody hook me up with a little 
infill lot in Chapel Hill or Carrboro, please. I wanna build a 
small-footprint 3-story solar building with a green roof.

Maybe I should just get a hybrid to drive instead, eh?

Ross