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I've been recommended Durham by a colleague from Raleigh but I'm concerned about the schools, is there a section of Durham that's a bit better school-wise? A simple home search revealed tons of options but all have very poor assigned schools. Thanks everyone for all your input!!
if you want a super-diverse life, then you're surely looking for diversity in the school population. You're able to drill down to performance by various demographics using ncreportcards.org. Perhaps the poor schools you're concerned about just have a high population of underprivileged youth, and they're not performing as well on the %'s you see from a birds eye view as their not-disadvantaged counterparts. You should at least loom to see.
Plus. Durham has a couple of highly-desired magnet schools.
FWIW, OP did not ask us to help them define "tolerant" or "Liberal". They offered their definition, and asked for advice on where to live.
As many have said, there is probably no neighborhood (not even in Durham or Chapel Hill) that is 100% D or R, but it is likely that if you don't start something, nobody else will force themselves on you either.
Best advice I could give to anyone, of any persuasion: If you don't want to be confronted for your beliefs, then don't wear them on your sleeve. If you're going to have bumper stickers, yard-signs, and t-shirts advertising a point of view (any POV), then expect a vocal minority may have something to say. As I posted earlier, I have at least one neighbor with a "Hillary for Prison" yard-sign. Great, I know where they stand, and I know that I probably don't want to engage in politics with them. I accept their right to vote as they please, and also accept I probably won't change their mind. IMO, best for me to leave it at that. Why is this so difficult.
OP: I think you've been given some good solid advice. I also think that if you are anything less than in-your-face with your POV, you won't have problems. If you go around telling people what a sack of excrement #45 is, I might agree with you, but you would also invite exactly what you are trying to avoid.
I've been recommended Durham by a colleague from Raleigh but I'm concerned about the schools, is there a section of Durham that's a bit better school-wise? A simple home search revealed tons of options but all have very poor assigned schools. Thanks everyone for all your input!!
In Durham, the southwest part of the city is where you want to be. Forest View Elementary is very good.
FWIW, OP did not ask us to help them define "tolerant" or "Liberal". They offered their definition, and asked for advice on where to live.
As many have said, there is probably no neighborhood (not even in Durham or Chapel Hill) that is 100% D or R, but it is likely that if you don't start something, nobody else will force themselves on you either.
Best advice I could give to anyone, of any persuasion: If you don't want to be confronted for your beliefs, then don't wear them on your sleeve. If you're going to have bumper stickers, yard-signs, and t-shirts advertising a point of view (any POV), then expect a vocal minority may have something to say. As I posted earlier, I have at least one neighbor with a "Hillary for Prison" yard-sign. Great, I know where they stand, and I know that I probably don't want to engage in politics with them. I accept their right to vote as they please, and also accept I probably won't change their mind. IMO, best for me to leave it at that. Why is this so difficult.
OP: I think you've been given some good solid advice. I also think that if you are anything less than in-your-face with your POV, you won't have problems. If you go around telling people what a sack of excrement #45 is, I might agree with you, but you would also invite exactly what you are trying to avoid.
I'll just say I agree with this post completely. But you put it far more eloquently than I could!
Best advice I could give to anyone, of any persuasion: If you don't want to be confronted for your beliefs, then don't wear them on your sleeve. If you're going to have bumper stickers, yard-signs, and t-shirts advertising a point of view (any POV), then expect a vocal minority may have something to say. As I posted earlier, I have at least one neighbor with a "Hillary for Prison" yard-sign. Great, I know where they stand, and I know that I probably don't want to engage in politics with them. I accept their right to vote as they please, and also accept I probably won't change their mind. IMO, best for me to leave it at that. Why is this so difficult.
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YES and I didn't mean to give any other impression - my Durham neighborhood is absolutely filled with more liberals than anything else, and there are a lot of signs supporting refugees, Bernie, everything, but we do like our conservative neighbors as well It's not difficult, and I don't believe the OP was looking for complete exclusion (impossible, probably even in Carrboro).
That's the trouble with the politically hijacked name calling that we call "politics".
I would consider myself "conservative" in the way I live my life - I don't spend my money on fancy things, I don't go out to seek attention, I govern myself by (what I believe to be) a good set of morals. By the same token, I have no intentions to tell a woman what she can and can't do with her body, or that I support prayer and God in schools as long as you are praying to MY god. Unfortunately that's what "conservative" means today.
Yep they've hijacked the right and in an effort to gather a voting base have appealed to the hardcore religious aspects.
Just a hunch but I would bet most lean toward fiscally conservative democrat ideals.
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It's not difficult, and I don't believe the OP was looking for complete exclusion (impossible, probably even in Carrboro).
