Last month, I posted the following with a link to our story:

“Visitors bureau wants $50K more next year to promote Chapel Hill’s mojo. What do you think makes Chapel Hill cool? ... Or is it?”

Here’s what some of you said.

Amanda Ashley: What makes Chapel Hill cool? Carrboro.

Robin Sheedy: The people! the climate, the open space, the values. The best promo is word of mouth, if you have to ask if you are cool, you’re not. Don’t turn us into Myrtle Beach.

Paul Hrusovsky: Great letter to editor in today’s paper by Adrian Halpern! We are being outshined by Carrboro and particularly Durham. There is no mojo to promote!

Chris Weaver: Something needs to draw in outside tax dollars to provide some relief to property owners. I cannot imagine 8K for a 1,600 sq. ft. house w/ 15 feet of grass bordering it as one friend say he pays. That’s water front rates in some locations.

Jason Baker: Locally owned businesses. Fare-free transit. A world class university. A walkable downtown. Progressive politics. We’ve still got good things going on. But you don’t stay on top by just continuing to do the same old thing – we also need to continually adapt and innovate, lest we become just a ritzy neighborhood the people have to drive around to get from Carrboro to Durham.

Suzanne Mason Haff: Needs more street action; use money on local musicians.

James Protzman: Carrboro is the only thing that makes Chapel Hill cool. We don’t even have a downtown community park ... or bike lanes on Estes Drive Extension ... or food trucks.

Del Snow: We are at a real crossroads (and I hope it not Crossroads Plaza in Cary). What once made us shine was that we were a town with creativity and imagination. We could have figured out how to promote our “mojo” and profit from it. Now, our imagination stops at wishing for a mega-chain store, just like the ones surrounding us.

Katrina Ryan: Chapel Hill needs to be Chapel Hill and stop worrying about trying to become Durham. The Carolina Inn does over 200 weddings a year. Thousands of students and their families visit various university camps and functions every summer. Our revenue is the same in August as it is September, and July was our busiest month of the year last year. There are lots of tourists in Chapel Hill, and I promise you they don’t care about street music or food trucks. They would like not to be assaulted by panhandlers, though.

Susan Prothro Worley: Cool enough that most people are too busy living life here to worry about how our town measures up to those around us ... and in fact understand that enjoying what places like Carrboro, Hillsborough, Pittsboro, and Durham have to offer is one of the many positives of life in Chapel Hill.