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Hello everyone, We are relocating for work to the Apex area. We are looking for a smaller historic town with a 30-45 minute commute to the NE Apex area. We are looking for affordable homes family oriented, organic gardening, farmers markets, healthy outdoor awareness living. Looking for current responses 2015. I have research the school issues, the rapid growth issues, the frustration from the locals, but business is business and business must grow....or so we've been told. I want an acre or two to hide away and raise my kids and be involved at the school and the community and enjoy the climate and a garden. Any suggestions? Be nice please.
Hello everyone, We are relocating for work to the Apex area. We are looking for a smaller historic town with a 30-45 minute commute to the NE Apex area. We are looking for affordable homes family oriented, organic gardening, farmers markets, healthy outdoor awareness living. Looking for current responses 2015. I have research the school issues, the rapid growth issues, the frustration from the locals, but business is business and business must grow....or so we've been told. I want an acre or two to hide away and raise my kids and be involved at the school and the community and enjoy the climate and a garden. Any suggestions? Be nice please.
Look into Carthage in Moore co. about 45 min from Apex down rt 1.
Hello everyone, We are relocating for work to the Apex area. We are looking for a smaller historic town with a 30-45 minute commute to the NE Apex area. We are looking for affordable homes family oriented, organic gardening, farmers markets, healthy outdoor awareness living. Looking for current responses 2015. I have research the school issues, the rapid growth issues, the frustration from the locals, but business is business and business must grow....or so we've been told. I want an acre or two to hide away and raise my kids and be involved at the school and the community and enjoy the climate and a garden. Any suggestions? Be nice please.
Where are you moving from?
Give us examples of what you think of as historic small towns.
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I thought Apex was/is an historic town to begin with. Why not just live there. It has a wonderful main street downtown area. And what you are looking for in terms of property is not far away.
We have lived in Phila, Eugene, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Vermont, Sacramento, Phoenix....We've never lived in the SE ..It's not where we're from it's where we're going to go!
Historic buildings, no cul-de-sacs, property-- not lots, history in that it (the town- main street) has been there maybe 100 years or so. Maybe an old Mill? Do they have them there? Maybe a historic industrial feel with an abandoned building or factory to convert?
My impression from the other posts from 2007 until present, are that the entire area grew fast. Lots of new construction. Some resentment. But Business tax breaks bring jobs not expanded schools to accommodate the growth. Hey Politicians and big business-- Working families have kids! Kids needs schools!! Taxes pay for schools!! Duh! I thought Apex looked overly populated... new buildings from on Google earth but I can't say for sure. But this is why I am asking, the info here seems dated and people seem angry. Are they?
Now we are one of the many who have been offered a job in that area and are considering the climate and family lifestyle plus is it lucrative?
What's your budget? Acreage isn't going to come cheap within a decent commute to Apex. Apex is a cute, older town with some history so there's that. This area isn't much different than any other sleepy old town that had suburbs spring up around it; I grew up in a town that was settled around the Revolutionary War, but my house wasn't built until 1933 and most of my friends' homes as well as the schools till the 1950s and 60s. Not such an odd scenario.
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