[Brujah]

Gnaw, on 08 February 2015 - 08:47 PM, said:

No dedicated thread so I'll put it here. Dean Smith is dead.

Half of North Carolina will be in mourning for the next week. The other half will be muttering "Coach K has more wins". Under their breath of course because, hey, they're blue devils and don't want their asses kicked.

I'm a Tarheels fan, but I have a ton of respect for Duke, and will always pull for them anytime they're not playing us.

UNC is close, but Raleigh is also close enough to make it eventful.

And the Raleigh/Durham area in NC is a paradise.

I'm not sure if it was last year or the year before, but Raleigh/Durham ranked 4th best peace to live in the U.S.

in fact, this year, 2015 is already out, and top spots went to fn' Madison, WI.

Fuck that. All I imagine are That 70s Show type kids v.2015.

I'd never move from this area unless we're talking like, full on west coast, northern Cali...........ok maybe Colorado in dead center of Wet Sticky Buds central and Snowboarding resorts that actually have ski lifts that will pick you up right outside the Buds Shops................fuck...fuck my life.

I watched a documentary on the Colorado legal weed culture and it wad heavily revolved around toking up and dropping into some sick slopes........like.......all day long. I mean, I don't ski or smoke weed, but if they made it legal here and we could get those pure kind bud strains offered in just about every Weed shop in Colorado, then I would be starting(back actually, I smoked in college). Those top notch strains of indica or sativa, mental buzz or body buzz. And no paranoia like that comes with the Mexican dirt weed all the rest of the country have to live with. Shit is exactly the way god intended it for us. Pure, self.grow strains that relieve stress and actually do a lot of good for responsible adults. Shit, let me get off my mental vacation fantasies before I lose any semblance of train of thought I had going.

Quote Knowledge Dump:


"Durham ranks Fourth Best Place to Live and Visit

The continued attention paid to Durham is flattering - especially when Durham is ranked #4 on the list of the Top 100 Places in the US to live and visit by Livability.com. The national website ranks quality-of-life amenities in America’s small and mid-sized cities. Durham ranked most highly for health care and amenities.

"The things that make Durham rank high in quality of life indices are some of the same things that make Durham a great place to visit," said Shelly Green, President and CEO of the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau, the organization that markets Durham. "Things like great dining, shopping, arts and cultural opportunities, as well as abundant natural recreation areas, raise the experience bar for everyone," Green added.

In 2012 Durham welcomed 9 million visitors who took advantage of these things and many others.

According to the website, the data collected for the ranking were weighted based on an exclusive survey conducted for Livability by Ipsos Public Affairs, a leading global market research firm. Respondents were asked about factors that make their communities better places to live, as well as the factors they would consider in selecting another city. Those factors were narrowed down to eight categories – economics, housing, amenities, infrastructure, demographics, social and civic capital, education and healthcare – that were then used to determine each city’s LivScore. See the entire list on their website.

To produce its inaugural list of Top 100 Best Places to Live and Visit, Livability.com partnered with Richard Florida’s Martin Prosperity Institute, the world's leading think tank on the role of location, place, and city-regions in global economic prosperity. A months-long study of more than 1,700 U.S. cities and the factors that make them the best places to live, work and play was conducted. Florida also ranked Durham as having the highest percentage of creative-class jobs in the US."



Just in case you felt like being bored by statistics.