Small towns near Chapel Hill? (Durham, Cary: rent, townhome, safe area)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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I'm hoping to move to NC this winter so I can go to UNC for grad school and I was hoping you guys could help me narrow down towns to consider moving to.
There are 4 of us: two older women on disability, myself (30, grad student) and my sister who is early 20s. We are looking for a small town feel but without a long commute to UNC. Preferably a 30 min or less commute to UNC. We need a 4 bd or 3 bd+ bonus rm, which I know is kind of hard to find but we hope we are giving ourselves enough time to find a place. (We are planning several more visits to the area to look at towns to live in)
We are all pretty much homebodies, so we don't need a lot of entertainment options or bars, etc. We do want something in a safe area. My sister is looking for retail type work and I have a few different type of jobs I could do so I think jobs won't be a problem.
Oh and if possible, we'd like something to the west of Chapel Hill as my sister has a bf in High Point.
Thanks so much for all suggestions, advice and info!
If budget is ample (would expect not but you never know) then it would make sense to live right in Chapel Hill/Carrboro. The disabled family members and grad student could utilize the free bus system. Especially valuable for OP as parking on UNC's campus is a pain.
4 bedrooms, 2 bath in-town in Chapel Hill is going to run a minimum of $400k to purchase or over 2k/month rent though.
Hillsborough and Mebane would be the most obvious small towns outisde of CH to suggest 20 minute and 30 minute commute to UNC respectively. They won't have nearly the amount of retail/part time jobs as Chapel Hill/Durham would have though.
Many folks would say Chapel Hill and Carrboro themselves are small towns and have a small town feel. Chapel Hill has a population of about 60,000 and Carrboro has a population of about 20,000.
According to the listings I just looked at you could rent for $1800 on the low end rather than $2000. And there are some older 4/2 homes around $300K, but they go fast.
Chapel Hill has great pockets of affordability!!!!!
Actually, i moved here 8 years ago, for cancer treatment at Duke in Durham and i got beaten, assaulted robbed and car stolen in Durham by a gang of girls.... sheesh, welcome to North Carolina. i escaped to very quiet Butner, where i kinda went insane, there was nothing to do out there!!!!
But truly, i do believe, the only place a transplanted Yankee can survive is the Chapel Hill area (Cary is just like crazy, maniac congested Bergen County NJ).... and i am retired but live in Chapel Hill, have a Chapel Hill zip code, but i live in Northern Chatham County, pay the much lower Chatham county taxes ($677 a year) on a nice two bedroom 2 bath townhome in a secluded enclave, so don't count out NORTHERN CHATHAM COUNTY.
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