Yeah, I’m familiar with Durham. We’d looked into the possibility of moving to the Golden Triangle area at one point, many years ago. After driving through, we realized that we did NOT want to live in Durham! Seemed just as bad as some of the cities we’d gone through in N. Jersey!
I’ve lived here in the Triangle for the past five months (along the I-40 corridor in south Durham), and it’s really not that bad. The economy is really booming with Research Triangle Park next door, and this end of town has a lot of nice neighborhoods and good amenities. But I see what you mean about certain parts of Durham proper. Any city that proudly has signs up denoting part of downtown as the “Government Services District” makes me wonder.
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