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Durham, Fuck Yeah

Yep. Get the kung pao lotus root. I also recommend the szechuan spicy fish, the ba shu spicy chicken (if you want something really spicy), and the Chinese broccoli.

Just went to their website. Didn't realize they'd had so much good publicity.

http://thegourmetkingdom.com/
 
rome8180 said:
Sadly, the pretty good Vietnamese place on Guess Road closed on down and was replaced by some of the worst "Thai" food I have ever had.

If you want great Vietnamese, go to Charlotte.
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Is that that Pad Thai place near Hog Heaven? Never been there.
 
BTW, despite the fact that my mother has been a vegetarian for over 30 years, I hadn't had tofu until a month or two ago when I had a tofu and pork dish (yes) at Brewery Bhavana and can't get it out of my mind. I suppose this belongs in the Food thread.
 
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Figure people in or around Durham may have a good perspective on this real estate question:

If I see a house in an obviously gentrifying area where roughly every 2-3 houses are new constructions that go for around $800k, while all the other houses are old and small and would go for about $300k (to a developer who would immediately tear the house down and build new), is this a good place to buy one of the fancy new houses?

This is a classic case where a new urbanish center has sprouted up and the surrounding area is now being whitewashed, after an entire history of being working class. I would not want to send a kid to the local public elementary school unless the area became significantly more gentrified within 5-6 years, but maybe that’s not a bad bet to happen. The elementary schools for the immediately surrounding areas are all top notch, and the homes in those areas of course cost about 25-50% more for equivalent condition and size.

Do areas of Durham look this this currently, with like every other house being a new mansion, and the houses in between being ugly shacks? It’s a strange sight.
 
Not quite yet, but it's going to happen. Shacks near downtown going for half a mil. They'll get torn down for mansions, but I haven't seen it happen yet like it has in NY or Chicago burbs. So weird to see these giant, brand new houses surrounded by houses built in the 1950s.
 
SM, I think you'd be better off buying the shack, honestly. Flip in in a couple years for way more than you bought it for, assuming Trump keeps the economy humming.
 
Durham has areas with similar dynamics (NE downtown near Fuullsteam is probably most similar), but is nowhere near that expensive yet, even areas walkable to city center. You don't see a lot selling over 500k, and not many teardowns over 150k.

The one thing I've heard around the triangle is that, once you get into that 800k-1M price range, it gets a lot harder to sell, as people in this area who can pay that much generally want to build custom.

I assume that's not a concern where you are, obviously, if builders are building 800k spec houses. Otherwise, buying new would scare me a lot less than buying a flipped house in a transitional area. I feel like this craze is going to result in a lot of people getting fucked 5-10 years after buying their pretty, renovated 80 year-old house.
 


Just end this world now. Satisfaction and now this???

For another shitty apartment building? Fuck you, John Boy.

I did laugh when the article said John Boy was the owner and it took me another paragraph to realize his surname is Boy.
 
On that note, I think I’ve decided to target the midrange houses in the gentrifying neighborhood. Figure those will appreciate less than the shack lot value, but more (percentage-wide) than the new McMansions, and give me a decent space to live in.
 
aiw said:


Just end this world now. Satisfaction and now this???

For another shitty apartment building? Fuck you, John Boy.

I did laugh when the article said John Boy was the owner and it took me another paragraph to realize his surname is Boy.
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Bar? This place used to be a video store. Why are they no longer renting out the latest hits?
 
I once ran there from my central campus apartment because my friend was on the toilet and I had run out of toilet paper. Now, fantastic beer selection and about 40 beers on tap.
 
I remember them having an impressive selection of malt liquor back in my day.
 
Malt liquor, toilet paper and porn.

I sent a buddy of mine that article and he mentioned a story when Playboy released the Girls of the ACC issue and there was a Duke student named Darlene in it. The guy at the counter asked my friend if he knew Darlene. My friend said yes. The counter guy said, "Everybody knows Darlene..."
 
How much fucking demand can one mid-sized city have for overpriced apartments?

I mean, that seems like a very niche market. You've got to have the income to afford downtown prices but not be old enough to prefer to settle in a house. How many people fitting that profile does a city of 200K have? So many of these places are going to be half vacant in five years.
 
People talk about how cool Durham is, but I think it might have crossed a tipping point into shittiness in the last few years. Ninth Street is horrible. Nice Price was replaced by a Papa John's. Now this.
 
It was an ice cream parlor like 20+ years ago. Nice Price managed to survive for a long time. It also probably had the best fiction selection relative to its size I've ever seen (and I live in Chicago where there are many successful used book stores).
 
Forgot about Francesca's too. And I HATE what's happened to Ninth Street. I assume Bahn's, Blue Corn, The Regulator, etc. will be driven out by high rents soon enough.

The Full Steam/Motorco area is awesome though. Was cool to see that come up from nothing. Downtown in general is infinitely better.
 
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