East Coast Travelogue №2: The Colonization of Raleigh

What makes a city have an identity crisis? When does freedom of movement become abhorrently violent gentrification? What differentiates a community from a colony?

A sunny day on Salisbury Street a few blocks from the Raleigh Convention Center, snapped by me

Previously, on Episode 1 of the Return to the East Coast Travelogue, I had one hell of a time going back to Atlantic-facing shores via the most miserably execrable airport that ever disgraced the air traffic control system.

And then I landed in the diametric opposite for my only business segment on this month-plus voyage: Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU). Which is one of the nicest, if not THE nicest, airports in America!

I snapped this after I got some tea. Have you ever seen an airport this clean and shiny? My suitcase just glides across that floor!

When it’s not a pandemic, I come out to Raleigh every year for East Coast Game Dev Con (ECGC). It’s a wonderful show that’s not as huge, hectic, and all-consuming as GDC, the largest games industry event of the year. You get a chance to actually sit down and talk to people, and there aren’t as…