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Originally Posted by gratefulbambina
...where the best school systems are, areas that are more liberal, have good whole foods stores, and possibly AP groups.
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Originally Posted by gratefulbambina
IT Networking
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if it's IT you probably want the triangle (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). lots of techie jobs in these parts. there are big firms like Cisco, Cree, etc, and lots of smaller outfits, too (Cisco being massive).
as far as the other considerations you listed Chapel Hill/Carrboro public schools have a very good reputation (although as with anything like that you will find dissenters). there is a lot of variety in private schools in the chapel hill/durham/chatham area, too. there is both a friends (quaker) school that goes through high school and a waldorf school that goes through high school, too. there are also some other smaller options. there are some great charter schools in the area, too (durham, northern chatham county, alamance county).
whole/natural food stores are pretty easy to come by. chapel hill, durham, raleigh and cary all have Whole Foods. Trader Joe's is in the area, too. carrboro has a great coop (
www.weaverstreetmarket.com) and durham has a coop, too. i'm sure there are places in raleigh as well, but i don't know them. carrboro has a fantastic farmer's mkt and there are a lot of CSAs in the orange/chatham/durham county areas. there's a slow food/eat local movement in the area, too.
there is an API group in Raleigh/Cary and many many LLL groups in the triangle. there was an API group in chapel hill, but it has morphed into an "alternative parenting" group rather than being under the umbrella of API.
Chapel hill/carrboro and durham are pretty solidly liberal. durham has a long african american history and as well as being home to Duke it's also home to NC Central University, a historically black college. Durham also has a working class history (tobacco) and so you have this mix of working class, african american, university types that contribute to the liberalism there. in chapel hill/carrboro it's more the university (UNC) and the types of folks attracted to university towns that contribute to the liberalism there.
dennis kucinich spoke in carrboro if that gives you any idea of the political climate here.
so, that's what i can tell you about our little triangle of the world.
hth!