<p>This was millenia ago in forum time but to answer somebody’s question from page 1, Durham and Raleigh are quite different. </p>
<p>As I mentioned before, Raleigh is a real city with millions of inhabitants, a sophisticated public transit system, museums, concert venues, professional sports teams, incredible numbers of small, medium and large businesses, multiple universities and so on. </p>
<p>Durham is effectively a suburb with a pretty well known university in it. The property values in Durham are terrific (even grad students can afford houses) and it is a pretty great place if one spouse works in Chapel Hill and the other works at Duke.</p>
<p>It’s moot, I don’t think that the original poster was considering Duke or NC Central.</p>