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North Carolina: A Great Place to Live!
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- 2008 Best Cities: No. 2: Raleigh, NC
Kiplingers Personal Finance, July 2008
- Top 5 City for Young Singles
(Top 25 Cities for Every Stage of Your Life List)
Kiplingers Finance, May 2007
- #3 Best Place for African Americans
Black Enterprise, May 2007
- Top 10 – Best Place to Find A Mate
Men's Health, April 2007
- Top 10 Tech Towns
Wired, January 2007
- #8 Safest City (Cary)
Morgan Quinto Press, October 2006
- #6 Area for Relocating Singles
Primacy Relocation, October 2006
- #13 Overall Quality of Life
Business Dev. Outlook, September 2006
- # 9 Health Rating
Tampa Bay Partnership, September 2006
- #15 Climate Rating
Tampa Bay Partnership, September 2006
- #1 Area Overall (Raleigh-Durham)
Tampa Bay Partnership, September 2006
- #6 Best Cities for Singles
Forbes.Com, July 2006
- #4 Best Places to Live
Money Magazine, July 2006
- #3 Best City for US Bargains
Hotwire Travel Index, January 2006
- Top 20 Place to Live, Work & Play
Homebuilder.com, November 2005
- Top 10 Best Budget Weekend City
MSN.Com, August 2005
- One of "7 Cool Cities"
Kiplingers, August 2005
- #4 Best Cities for Singles
Forbes.Com, July 2005
- #34 "Top 100 Places to Live" (Cary)
Money Magazine, July 2005
- #17 Best Place for U.S. Running
Runner's World, July 2005
- # 8 Best Place for Wireless Connections
Intel, June 2005
- Five Star Quality of Life (Raleigh-Cary)
Expansion Management, April 2005
- Top 50 City: Quality of Life (Raleigh-Cary)
Expansion Management, March 2005
- #4 Best City for Dating (Raleigh-Durham, NC)
Sperling's Best Places, May 2004
- #4 City That Rocks
Esquire Magazine, April 2004
- Hottest Town in the East (Cary, NC)
Money Magazine, January 2004
- #6 Most Fun City
Cranium, January 2004
- #1 College Town (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) – Tier II
USA TODAY, August 2003
- #10 Lowest Rents-CBD
Expansion Management, August 2003
- #1 Best Place to Live
MSN House & Home, July 2003 |
Welcome to Wake County & Surrounding Areas, North Carolina
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North Carolina is a state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N).
2008 BEST CITIES
No. 2: Raleigh , N.C.
By Bob Frick, Senior Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance
July 2008
WORK IN PROGRESS
Raleigh Population: 995,662 (as of 2008)
Population Growth Since 2000: 19.9%
Percentage of Workforce in Creative Class: 36.1%
Cost-of-Living Index: 99 (100 being national average)
Median Household Income: $56,150
Income Growth Since 2000: 10.3%
Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km).
NC Population. (2000) 8,049,313, a 21.4% increase since the 1990 census.
Capital, Raleigh.
Largest city, Charlotte.
Motto,Esse Quam Videri [To Be Rather than to Seem].
State bird, cardinal.
State flower, dogwood.
State tree, pine. 
North Carolina, in the warm temperate zone, has a generally mild climate, with abundant and well distributed rainfall. The state's congenial climate, its many miles of beaches, and its beautiful mountains attract large numbers of visitors and vacationers each year. Chief among the tourist attractions are the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the Cape Lookout National Seashore, the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the Great Smoky Mts. National Park. Wildlife abounds in national forests (the state has four) and in the Dismal Swamp. Places of historic interest include Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, on Roanoke Island; the Wright Brothers National Memorial, at Kitty Hawk; Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, at Flatrock; and Guilford Courthouse and Moores Creek national military parks.
 North Carolina leads the nation in the production of tobacco and is a major producer of textiles and furniture. It grows 40% of all U.S. tobacco, but the continuing trend is toward diversification. Broilers, hogs, turkeys, greenhouse products, sweet potatoes, corn, soybeans, peanuts, and eggs are important. Plentiful forests supply the thriving furniture and lumber industries. The state has long been a major textile manufacturer, producing cotton, synthetic, and silk goods as well as various kinds of knit items. Other leading manufactures are electrical machinery, computers, and chemicals; the Research Triangle complex near Chapel Hill has spurred high-tech manufacturing, as well as bringing federal jobs into the state. The state also has mineral resources: It leads the nation in the production of feldspar, mica, and lithium materials and produces substantial quantities of olivine, crushed granite, talc, clays, and phosphate rock. There are valuable coastal fisheries, with shrimp, menhaden, and crabs the principal catches. Charlotte developed in the 1980s into a major U.S. banking center, and related businesses have flourished in the area.
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- Chatham Co. Public Schools (Pittsboro area)
- Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools (Chapel Hill, Carrboro areas)
- Durham Co. Public Schools
- Franklin Co. Public Schools (Youngsville areas)
- Harrnett Co. Public Schools (Dunn, Lillington, Angier area)
- Johnston Co. Public Schools (Clayton, Smithfield areas)
- Orange Co. Public Schools
- Wake Schools
- Wake Co. Public Schools (Raleigh, Cary, Garner, Knightdale, Wake Forest, Rolesville, Fuquay-Varina, Apex, Holly Springs areas)
NC Colleges and Universities
Private Schools
Other Local or Private Schools/Colleges to Raleigh, NC
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