# Moving to the triangle area Cary vs. Chapel hill

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-the-triangle-area-cary-vs-chapel-hill/627078>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 3, 2012, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-the-triangle-area-cary-vs-chapel-hill/627078 "2012-07-03T07:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2012, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moving-to-the-triangle-area-cary-vs-chapel-hill/627078/21 "2012-07-05T19:56:17Z")

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I went to grad school in Chapel Hill. When my wife and I decided to have kids we bought a house in Cary.

We HATED Cary. It was a suburban wasteland. The traffic was terrible and we had nothing in common with our neighbors. (The only things they were interested in was lawn care and basketball.) When I got a job in L.A. we said goodbye to Cary with no regrets.

Take a look at Carrboro. It’s right next to Chapel Hill and tends to be a little cheaper and more adult. If my commute wouldn’t have been insane, my wife and I might have looked for a house there instead of Cary.

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