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[Gina Norman <gina AT vnet.net>]

a small place really...

What really wiggs me out is the way many folks (like my mom, most notably)
act like the different cities in the Triangle are so ... separate.

Granted, Mom has lived in Raleigh for 25 years, and when she moved there,
I-40 didn't go all the way through, but still... to hear her talk about "g
o i n g t o C h a p e l H i l l" she makes it sound like it was a voyage
that requires steamer trunks and non-perishable provisions.

I live (essentially) in the park (right where 54 crosses 55... it's almost
as close to the park as you can be but not be in it).  I work about 3
miles away at Nortel BUT:

* my allergist is almost in Chapel Hill
* my favorite shopping mall is in Raleigh
* my favorite salad is in Chapel Hill (the gorgonzola-walnut one at the
Loop)
* my favorite soda is in Durham (McDonald's Drugstore on 9th street --
REAL fountain drinks!!)
* my favorite jewelry is in a store in Cary (at the Claiborn Collection
though I think my other favorite boutiques have many of the same things
[Accipiter, Zolas, Camerons])
* my favorite band venue is in Carrboro
(Cat's Cradle)
* 4 of my best friends are in Raleigh, 4 or so are in Durham, several more
are in Chapel Hill, 4 are in Hillsboro, etc.
 
You get the picture.

IOW, it's ususual that I don't visit Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Cary
*and* Carrboro in the space of a week. I often end up in 2 of the 5 on a
single day, and I've even been to all 5 in the space of a morning (not
that it was an experience that I'd like to repeat!)
 
Anyway, I was sort of wondering if there was anyone else who really thinks
that she lives in the *triangle* and doesn't really see the big deal about
the "city-thing"?

I guess in my head (a scary place, I know) I live in the Triangle city,
and Durham, Raleigh, etc. are more like neighborhoods, each with it's own
character, but none more important than the other...

I'm done now.

: )

-gina (who lived in Chapel Hill for 3, Raleigh for 10 years, Durham for 7,
Carrboro for 2 and now has lived "in the park" for 7)


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Gina Norman                                      And the only bit that
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