Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Oh, and we're both catholics. They seem to be rare in this part of the country [/quote]
While a growing presence in NC, Catholics are still a minority here also.
In fact, until not all that long ago NC was considered a "mission state" by the Catholic church. Some southern states (Louisiana for example, due to the French settlers) are traditionally Catholic, but NC is not.
The influx of NJ & NY'ers is bringing more to the urban areas. The booming Hispanic population is also contributing to the increase in numbers. But in terms of Catholic churches and schools, particularly high schools, there are not many to choose from yet.
We aren't Cahtolic but our daughter is in Catholic school. The school & parish are energetic, positive, & modern.
Their bulletin is entirely bilingual- they do not treat Spanish speakers as second class citizens with one page of info just for them.
They have a new, young bishop, and he was at the school last week, visiting classrooms. The priest who is pastor is young too- very friendly.
Back north, lots of people were Catholic, but not many were really involved in the parishes. There was the attitude of the church as an insititution that had always been there & always would be there. Maybe because the protestants are more active here, or maybe because the catholics are outnumbered, or maybe because they themselves have to build the parishes, the catholics seem more "into it."
Most of the families at the school are living in Wakefield, Bedford & Heritage. None have said they feel anything but welcome here.
cgballer, we used to live in Ft. Collins - about 10 years ago- hubby worked for HP. Timberline was the east boundary, but I understand the city has grown so much.
Anyway, nice to see some folks from there. Beautiful city.
Going back to my original posting of three months ago, we have now been living in Cary for less than two weeks and I am amazed of all the different nationalities we have encountered so far. Among my neighbors there are people from Armenia, Russia and Poland. In my son's daycare there are kids from China, Sweden, Finland, India just to name a few. Well, that's great! I love it! Of course we also met a lot of Americans too (both NC natives or transplanted from other parts of the country). Everybody has been friendly, helpful and polite...what a change from south Florida!
Not sure of the Welsh, I am still trying to find out where the Italians hang out...
OK, there are more Italians than Welsh....so maybe we'll just have to become honorary (or ersatz) Italians .... But March 1 [St. Dafydd's (David's) Day] won't be quite the same.....
To confirm what everyone has previously stated-- there is lots of international diversity in this area. A friend has two kids in Chapel Hill public schools who are in Mandarin Chinese immersion classes for half of every school day. The university brings in many international parents and their kids.
IBM and other large companies also bring in many workers from China and other such countries.
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