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About The Triangle
 Welcome to Cary and the Triangle Area of North Carolina! North Carolina is a wonderful place to live—and there’s nowhere in North Carolina more exciting than the Triangle Area! I hope you’ll bookmark this page and use it often as your resource for learning about Cary, Raleigh, Apex and the entire Triangle Area. Call me––come down for a visit––and let us show you some authentic Southern hospitality. The Triangle is one of the nation’s fastest growing areas, and recipient of numerous accolades from national publications as one of the country’s best places to live, work and do business. The Triangle’s “points” are made up of the cities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, and include three major national universities (UNC, Duke, NC State) and Raleigh-Durham International Airport. Raleigh is the state capital and is the largest city in the Triangle. Cary and Apex are thriving towns to the west of Raleigh in the heart of the Triangle Area. Nowhere in the state will you find a better blend of Southern hospitality and uptown amenities. 
 The area is known for the Research Triangle Park, begun as an industrial research complex in the early 1950’s by far-sighted state leaders. Today the 7,000-acre complex is home to many of the nation’s largest firms, who make RTP their research headquarters, e.g., GlaxoSmithKlein, IBM, Nortel and Cisco Systems, and a number of government agencies such as National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Humanities Center.
The Triangle lies in the heartland of North Carolina. Two hours to the west of the Triangle lie the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey Mountains, and a two-hour drive to the east finds Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach, the Outer Banks and hundreds of miles of wide sandy beaches. It is an area rich in history, with excellent museums, a thriving culture, first-rate professional and collegiate sports.
•The News and Observer’s Information Site •Recreation in the Triangle Area •Golf Courses in the Heartland
On a per capita basis, the area has among the highest numbers of people holding advanced degrees. Career, skill, vocational, and professional development for real life are available at a number of the Triangle’s independent schools and the array of world-class colleges and universities, including Duke University, Meredith College, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University, Peace College, Saint Augustine’s College, Shaw University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Wake Technical University College.
Each year over 10,000 college students graduate from the Triangle area. •Colleges and Universities in the Triangle And in February 2004, Forbes magazine ranked Wake County’s Public School System as third in the nation for “Best Education in the Biggest Cities.”
My hometown,Cary, was called the “Technology Town of North Carolina.” Since January, 2004, when Money Magazine named Cary the most desirable place to live in the eastern United States and one of the six “hottest towns” in America, the Chamber of Commerce just calls Cary “#1.” In July, 2006, Cary was again listed in Money's "Best Places to Live" in the entire country. Cary's 2006 national ranking is #5 (and nearby Raleigh is ranked #4 in best places to live in the "Big Cities" category). Money Magazine wasn’t telling us anything that Cary citizens didn’t know already. For more than a decade, Cary has earned numerous awards for its high quality of life. It has repeatedly ranked among the top regions in North Carolina to start a business, buy a house, raise a family and retire. Cary has also been voted one of the safest towns in the U.S. multiple times. •Cary Named Number One in the East in 2004!
Cary has the highest median incomes in the state, and also the highest percentages of Ph.D.’s It is easily accessible from Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the Research Triangle Park via three major interstate highways. It is just 7.5 miles from RDU International Airport. Cary’s location has helped transform it from a sleepy southern town into a diverse, dynamic community with a population of about 110,000. Careful comprehensive planning has allowed Cary to become the world-class community it is today, with its prized greenways and abundance of parks--and yet to retain past values, a hometown feel and the closeness of neighborhoods. •Cary Facilities, Greenways & Parks
The town hosts one of the largest arts and crafts festivals in the Southeast, drawing some 500 vendors and more than 60,000 attendees each August during Lazy Daze Festival. Cary is also known for its golf courses, including Prestonwood (with 54 holes), which hosts nationally televised events like the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic and the Senior PGA Tour’s SAS Championship. In the summer, the North Carolina Symphony moves to the Regency Park Ampitheater in Cary to provide Triangle residents with music under the stars. Cary is also a great place to do business! Cary is home to the SAS Institute (one of the largest private software developers in the world), Caterpillar, Oxford University Press, John DeereWorld/International headquarters, but it is also where you can shop for gifts in Panache or buy birthday cakes in Sweet Traditions Bakery. Cary offers an extraordinary range of housing choices, from gated suburban neighborhoods overlooking some of Cary’s many small lakes to country estates on several acres, to stylish town homes, attractive apartments and condominiums. Cary also offers a selection of executive homes that would rival luxury homes anywhere in the country. Its many neighborhoods, or Planned Unit Developments (PUDs), are a Cary hallmark, with their quality design standards and numerous amenities, such as golf courses, pools, tennis complexes, sport courts, and multi-use trails and greenways. There are houses to please every taste in Cary.
With a population of more than 277,000, Raleigh’s growth parallels that of the Research Triangle Park, a presence offering diverse cultural and regional influences. This influence has provided Raleigh with the best of all worlds—restaurants, cosmopolitan shops, educational, cultural and recreational activities, alongside traditional small town Southern hospitality and charm. The Convention and Visitors Bureau calls Raleigh “city living Carolina style,” which aptly describes this easy-going lifestyle of a very sophisticated city.
Raleigh continuously receives awards and accolades: one of the five best places to raise kids in America; one of the five best places to balance work and family life; sixth best US city for business; one of the top 20 markets to buy a home; and one of the top ten metro areas for business growth.
Raleigh is home to the North Carolina Museums of Art, History, and Natural Sciences, the North Carolina Symphony, the Raleigh Little Theatre, The North Carolina Theatre, Exploris Children’s Museum and the BTI Center for the Performing Arts, Alltel Pavilion at Walnut Creek, the RBC Center (where hometown American Idol Clay Aiken performs).
It offers a wealth of galleries, concerts, opera, and ballet; ACC, collegiate and professional sports events; hundreds of acres of parks and recreational facilities; numerous golf courses; public gardens and arboretums; and trolley tours of historic areas. It is the home of and located in close proximity to some of the finest medical facilities in the country and its Wake County schools are perennial award winners.
•Raleigh Convention and Visitors’ Bureau •City of Raleigh Government
Housing in Raleigh is an eclectic mix. You can live in a quiet, established neighborhood near schools, in a newly built golf community, or in a restored Victorian bungalow or new luxury condo or loft near downtown Raleigh’s rejuvenated arts and restaurant district. You’ll have choices in active retirement communities and authentic historic communities. The choices are mind-boggling and exciting, yet affordable.
Just 12 miles from Raleigh and 20 minutes from RDU, and about six miles from Cary is the town of Apex, aptly nicknamed the “Peak of Good Living.” This name derived from the location of Apex as the highest point on the historic Chatham Railroad which ran between Virginia and Florida. Its early railroad history is kept alive today in the Apex Union Depot, built in 1914, which houses the Apex Chamber of Commerce and serves as a backdrop for outdoor concerts in the spring, summer and fall. Its restored historic downtown area is the site of one of its four popular yearly festivals, and houses antique shops, boutiques and restaurants.
Apex is an ideal urban community with excellent Wake County schools, a regional library, quiet, friendly neighborhoods and a growing number of business and shopping opportunities in new office and retail parks. There are nine parks, ballfields, basketball and tennis courts, and nearby Jordan Lake offers boating, fishing, swimming, hiking and camping. Appealing to a more far-flung population every year are four Apex festivals: Peak Fest in May, Olde Fashioned 4th of July Festival, Today & Yesteryear Fest in September, and Christmas on Salem Street in early December combined with an historic homes tour. •Jordan Lake Recreation Area, Apex The Apex area offers many choices in housing including historic homes (and replicas), farms, town homes, and planned neighborhoods.
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