Richhamleigh, DC

THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!!! It was a crime that Brunswick was taken out of the Wilmington MSA. Total BS. Frankly -- Wilmington and MB MSA will eventually become a CMSA probably sooner rather than later. MB as a core city is tiny (30K) compared to Wilmington (100K) -- it was an insult to NC when they move Brunswick to the MB MSA. THANK YOU KJH for posting this. And....the largest CSA and TV market without MLB.

yes? I would prefer to have a core city that is a bigger percentage of the metro population then vice versa. It's a sign of Sprawl, which, to honest, the Charlotte region in NC is doing an honorable (but unacknowledged) job of trying to control. The Atlanta, GA metro has 6 million people spread out over an area the size of Connecticut. Is that really good or admirable when the core city is tiny by comparison. Arguably if you took the land area of an Atlanta and overlaid it on Charlotte, Charlotte would be nearly as large. Frankly, at the end of the day, North Carolina is arguably the second or third most economically dynamic states in the country. Definitely ahead of Georgia.

Can the GA just legalize pot for God's sake.

Charlotte to Charleston should be a priority before Atlanta, GA. Charleston and Norfolk are the most important harbors on the East Coast after New York.

Air France to RDU. Only CA, FL, TX and PA have more than 1 city with nonstop flights to Europe?

The demarcation line between newcomers and old timers in Raleigh is how they refer to Falls. Old timers, like us, say Falls OF THE Neuse... basically, DOT abbreviated to save sign space, so newcomers think it's Fall OF Neuse. Wrong... LOL.

To be fair, NC isn't like Georgia - it's more like Virginia.

154 miles along the S-line corridor Raleigh to Richmond. Assuming stops in Henderson and LaCrosse (per Compact agreement) - at 110 MPH it would take about 1:45 to travel between the cities and if VA continues the high speed infrastructure to DC -- 3 hours Raleigh to DC. Can you image if we had German-style HSR? It would be an hour to Richmond and 2 to DC.

Georgia has done close to nothing for rail - the notion that Atlanta should be the rail hub for the SE is bull. Charlotte can, and should be. I'm sick and tired of assuming Atlanta has to be the best, biggest, etc. in the SE. If Atlanta had taken to the idea that it should play second fiddle to anyone else, it wouldn't be where it is today. Charlotte (and North Carolina), God bless us, need to stand up and fight. North Carolina needs to focus on continuing to build its intrastate network (Asheville and Wilmington to Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham) and the high speed link to Richmond and the Northeast Corridor. Screw SC and GA for the moment.

Right? LOL.

Just getting back from a trip to Berlin. I told people I was from North Carolina and was surprised by how much they knew about NC. They said, of course we know Charlotte, and the Outer Banks and mountains. LOL -- they thought Charleston was in North Carolina.

Carolinian and Piedmont in the top 10 rail routes in US.... by ridership? https://www.thetravel.com/busiest-amtrak-routes-in-the-us-ranked-by-popularity/#northeast-regional

...announced a big expansion today with a focus on the Southeast. Raleigh-Durham have to be on the short list. Maybe the Wegman's space at Fenton? https://fortune.com/2023/04/20/ikea-17-more-locations-us-expansion/

Growing up in 1980s and buying my first house in 2000 -- mortgage rates are still a bargain compared to what they were.

I think of Primark as an Irish H & M. I used to shop them in Boston and Connecticut. OK quality, but fun.

Has anyone spoken to NC Commerce Department about this? It does hurt business attraction. Brunswick not part of ILM MSA.

People want government to protect themselves, families and properties from others except when it's their own land/business. Then they scream about "small government". The town where I am planning director our long-range plans are built on trying to be fiscally conservative and efficient. That means growth where we've already paid for infrastructure and adequate infrastructure exists or improvements are in our adopted capital plan. We've got to do a better job managing population growth but also planning for the time when we aren't growing and ask ourselves, can we live with what's left over after the population boom? How many subdivisions being built today or such poor quality and design will eventually become the slums of the future?

Georgia vs. North Carolina. According to the newest estimates, NC is outpacing GA in population growth (2.5% vs. 1.75%). Starting in 2020 and going through 2030. If (and we know it won't be) this pace were to continue, NC will exceed GA in population as soon as 2028. .Georgia 10,729,828 10,912,876 11,104,037 11,298,546 11,496,463 11,697,846 183,048 1.7517% .North Carolina 10,449,445 10,698,973 10,964,094 11,235,784 11,514,207 11,799,529 249,528 2.4780% Note Metro Data (from March 2022). 2 from NC in the top 10 and Raleigh-Durham is punching far above its weight. I'd like to see the percentage growth of the MB, SC metro that's actually from Brunswick County across the river from Wilmington (broken record....) .Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area 7,637,387 7,662,325 7,759,615 122,228 2% .Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Metro Area 4,845,832 4,867,925 4,946,145 100,313 2% .Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metro Area 7,122,240 7,137,747 7,206,841 84,601 1% .Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX Metro Area 2,283,371 2,299,125 2,352,426 69,055 3% .Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA Metro Area 6,089,815 6,101,146 6,144,050 54,235 1% .Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area 4,599,839 4,605,504 4,653,105 53,266 1% .Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metro Area 3,175,275 3,183,385 3,219,514 44,239 1% .San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area 2,558,143 2,566,683 2,601,788 43,645 2% .Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area 2,660,329 2,669,665 2,701,046 40,717 2% Raleigh-Durham, NC Metro Area 2,063,885 2,071,417 2,102,423 38,538 2% .Jacksonville, FL Metro Area 1,605,848 1,611,388 1,637,666 31,818 2% .Boise City, ID Metro Area 764,718 769,581 795,268 30,550 4% .Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL Metro Area 725,046 729,233 753,520 28,474 4% .Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL Metro Area 760,822 764,679 787,976 27,154 4% .Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV Metro Area 2,265,461 2,273,386 2,292,476 27,015 1% .North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL Metro Area 833,716 837,107 859,760 26,044 3% .Provo-Orem, UT Metro Area 671,185 674,967 697,141 25,956 4% .Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN Metro Area 1,989,519 1,995,343 2,012,476 22,957 1% .Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC Metro Area 487,722 491,582 509,794 22,072 5% .Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL Metro Area 2,673,376 2,677,687 2,691,925 18,549 1% .Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL Metro Area 668,921 670,869 685,344 16,423 2%

Georgia vs. North Carolina. According to the newest estimates, NC is outpacing GA in population growth (2.5% vs. 1.75%). Starting in 2020 and going through 2030. If (and we know it won't be) this pace were to continue, NC will exceed GA in population as soon as 2028. .Georgia 10,729,828 10,912,876 11,104,037 11,298,546 11,496,463 11,697,846 183,048 1.7517% .North Carolina 10,449,445 10,698,973 10,964,094 11,235,784 11,514,207 11,799,529 249,528 2.4780%

Right...so, Wall Street of South.....America. got it.

Icelandair is going year-round at RDU. RDU needs now a flight to Germany. Calling Condor....

See 3:53. Miami is the "Wall Street of the South"?

I can't help but feel that NC gets screwed by the Census. Raleigh and Durham were once, and should be now, a single MSA. Wilmington's screw job is legedary. Why does the Charlotte UA not include the adjacent, attached, UA's? I'm sorry, but VA Beach and Jacksonville are not "bigger" than Charlotte or Raleigh-Durham and yet, the UA definitions say they are. Rant over. Then Raleigh and Durham should be merged.

If MLB ends up in TN I'd be pissed. We have nearly 11 million people in NC, the biggest state without MLB with two cities bigger than Nashville. Our cities are growing rapidly vs TN where Nashville is the only high growth location. I'd rather see Las Vegas and Montreal. Otherwise, this will be yet another example of NC's tendency to sell itself short and forfeit assets to adjacent states.

Excellent observation. North Carolina, generally, dies a shifty job promoting itself. We aren't naturally bloviators like Georgia, Tennessee, Texas. We need to more agrmgressively sell ourselves.