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I've been to Danville, just long enough to look around but not long enough to mingle.

I've been to Danville, just long enough to look around but not long enough to mingle. What I remember most is the beautiful old residential neighborhoods with big, lovely old houses that natives considered "expensive" and "overpriced" at, oh, $120K. I remember the big old brick tobacco buildings downtown. The place seemed to be crying out for gentrification - those buildings looked just like the places that startups love to inhabit. But being a small town with no notable tech industry or universities in the immediate area, it's hard to imagine it becoming a success story like Durham appeared to have.

Posted by brightsize on Apr 20, 2015, 6:50 PM

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I've been to Danville, just long enough to look around but not long enough to mingle.

brightsizeApr 20, 2015, 6:50 PM

I've been to Danville, just long enough to look around but not long enough to mingle. What I remember most is the beautiful old residential neighborhoods with big, lovely old houses that natives considered "expensive" and "overpriced" at, oh, $120K. I remember the big old brick tobacco buildings downtown. The place seemed to be crying out for gentrification - those buildings looked just like the places that startups love to inhabit. But being a small town with no notable tech industry or universities in the immediate area, it's hard to imagine it becoming a success story like Durham appeared to have.

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