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>why isn't Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill on it?

No one wants to live there. It's not in the same league as NYC, LA, Boston, Seattle etc.

This is incorrect, a lot of people want to live there. There are many ways of calculating population growth, but Forbes says that the triangle is the 4th fastest growing metro area in the country:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2015/01/27/americas-...

Having lived in NYC and Seattle, I recently visited Durham and it was pretty rad. Great local breweries and local coffee, fun independent music scene, great barbecue. It certainly isn't midtown Manhattan levels of urban, but I could totally see it being a fun place to live.

It always sounded more like vying for the same league as Portland and Austin, actually.

Pittsburg

The place way out on the BART?

Carrboro: mini-Portland Chapel Hill: mini-Berkeley Durham: mini-Oakland Raleigh: mini-Atlanta

This is a pretty good comparison, imho (lived in Cary since 2003, first for an RTP-based company, then one based on San Jose, and relocating this year to CA). I'm trading my beautiful suburban 4300sqft home on a nice lot in a neighborhood with 2mi of private greenways and very little traffic that I only paid $499k for ... for a 1700sqft ranch built in 1950 costing $1.4m and loads of traffic everywhere you look. The upside is the new job and the tech community, but I'm not 100% convinced I'm trading up re: quality of [family] life.

What city is Cary comparable to?

My 2 cents is I ruled out moving there because there is no easy access to ocean. Boston won over SF because 1 hour drive gets me to warm water.

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