Field Notes topics

Field Notes is written to answer questions somebody actually asked, and everything is dated so you can see how old an answer is. The topics below are the recurring ones. They overlap on purpose — an ordinance is a development story until it changes what a street looks like, at which point it is an architecture story and then a pricing one.

1. Architecture — what got built here decade by decade, and which renovations return their cost.
2. Development — ordinances, roads and approvals, and what they do to a street over time.
3. Housing Data — days on market, pricing spreads, and why comparable houses sell differently.
4. Restaurants & Lifestyle — greenways, walkability and the things that can be verified on foot.
5. Relocation — how the Triangle towns differ once you are past the rankings.

Nothing here is published to a schedule. A piece goes up when a question has come up often enough to be worth answering properly and there is enough evidence to answer it — a set of sales, a permit record, an ordinance read end to end, or enough walking around to be confident about something. Older pieces are left up with their original dates rather than quietly refreshed, because the date is part of the information. If a conclusion no longer holds, a newer piece says so and links back.

Everything published, newest first, is in Field Notes.