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Thank you everyone for your very helpful advise. We are very excited to visit and check out the entire area. Looks like the weather is gonna be quite warm this weekend too. We need that! There is a small snow pile still left in my backyard! YIKES!
After exploring Hillsborough, I’d suggest a drive up to Roxboro then over to Oxford and then back to Durham, so you can get the flavor of those smaller towns as well.
Eno River State Park is a great place to visit. Driving down 751 through Duke Forest is pretty, and there is a great nature trail there, too. Explore the Duke University Campus, both West and East. Enjoy Duke Gardens, and perhaps stop at the Nasher Museum.
Not to start a BBQ discussion riot on C-D, but I’d suggest Bullock’s Bar-B-Cue. A great local place to fill up, esp. with two teenagers.
In Durham, the American Tobacco Campus, and the Durham Bulls Athletic Park are a nice walk-around. There is a Mellow Mushroom Pizza and a Tobacco Road Sports Cafe there.
Just north of Downtown, there’s a number of food/drink places I’d recommend, including Gonza Tacos y Taquila, Dames Chicken & Waffles, and the Fullsteam Brewery.
I hope you enjoy your trip down, and best of luck on the interview.
Thank you! We will look at those areas as well. Coming from a very rural area... our shortest drive was 30 minutes to any decent work and hubby's current drive is 1 hour and he actually enjoyed it (except for in winter storms). Burlington does not seem like a miserable distance away either ? Is it not nice? How about Franklinton, Louisburg, Creedmoor and around? Really I prefer a little distance from the big city.
I'd still suggest Timberlake and Rougemont. Also, make sure you check the property taxes. Orange County taxes are steep. When we were looking to move in the winter, we did look in Hillsborough and the prices were much higher for what you got, plus the taxes were pretty high.
Great Point. Can you give me an idea of average yearly taxes there? Last year mine was about $2000.... for a house valued much less then 250k
Thanks again!
Last edited by MrsRobinson08; 05-15-2019 at 11:45 AM..
Taxes depend on where you live. Did you see the tax tables I posted??
Definitely drive around a bit, but keep schools in mind. I know folks who live in Burlington, but their kids don't go to the local public schools, Alamance-Burlington School System. There are private school options and charter school options if you can get in. Mebane is worth a look too, but most of it is also ABSS, with a small corner going to Orange Co Schools.
Burlington and most of Mebane are Alamance County
Hillsborough is Orange County
Rougemont is partially Person County, partially Durham County
Timberlake is Person County
Oxford is Granville County
Thank you! We will look at those areas as well. Coming from a very rural area... our shortest drive was 30 minutes to any decent work and hubby's current drive is 1 hour and he actually enjoyed it (except for in winter storms). Burlington does not seem like a miserable distance away either ? Is it not nice? How about Franklinton, Louisburg, Creedmoor and around? Really I prefer a little distance from the big city.
Burlington is a small city with a fair amount of amenities. It’s not technically part of the Triangle, and would be perhaps a 45 min drive in traffic (all interstate), to Duke Regional. My own experience is just driving through or stopping at the large Outlet Mall out that way. I knew a few folks who lived there and worked in RTP, but they all had spouses who worked in Greensboro, so it was often a split the distance kind of location. None had kids in the Alamance Co. system. Mebane is a good sized town between Hillsborough and Burlington off I-40. It’s mostly Alamance Schools, but may be worth a look also. Again, my experience has been more driving through, though a senior executive I used to work with had an estate home out there.
Creedmoor is tiny, but I’m guessing prime for development over the next decade. Franklinton and Louisburg are both small (2-3k), and would be at least 45-60 min 2 lane country road drives at off-peak times, and that’s before any increased development . Both feel to me to be more Raleigh aligned than Durham linked. Louisburg is a cute town, is the county seat, and has a small college there. It’s de Hart Botanical Gardens just south down 401 are fantastic for a nature walk.
the Durham Bulls play ball through Sunday. Then later next week, it's the ACC Conference Tournament.
You probably need to tell us a bit more about your kids:
a. what needs to be done to entertain them this trip
b. both in HS? 17 yr old has 1 year left? Boys/girls? Model students? Struggle? Athletes?
I ask b. because MOST schools are going to be "safe", but your children's achievement is going to be up to them and you and motivation/educational background. What is your oldest's last year going to be like? etc.
the Durham Bulls play ball through Sunday. Then later next week, it's the ACC Conference Tournament.
You probably need to tell us a bit more about your kids:
a. what needs to be done to entertain them this trip
b. both in HS? 17 yr old has 1 year left? Boys/girls? Model students? Struggle? Athletes?
I ask b. because MOST schools are going to be "safe", but your children's achievement is going to be up to them and you and motivation/educational background. What is your oldest's last year going to be like? etc.
17 girl. She’s a lovely person. Mostly B’s with one C and A’s. Not athletic
15 boy. Awesome kid. Smart. A’s and maybe a B+. Golf
Neither are coming this trip. Both in high school. Freshman and junior.
Both have high interest in medicine. Either RN or NP
Thank you.
Thank you! We will look at those areas as well. Coming from a very rural area... our shortest drive was 30 minutes to any decent work and hubby's current drive is 1 hour and he actually enjoyed it (except for in winter storms). Burlington does not seem like a miserable distance away either ? Is it not nice? How about Franklinton, Louisburg, Creedmoor and around? Really I prefer a little distance from the big city.
I’m from Louisburg in Franklin County, the only county bordering Wake that hasn’t yet transitioned from poor and rural.
Franklin County has lowest ranking public schools in the Triangle.
It is still a world away from the sophisticated rest of the Triangle, but not for too much longer with US401 being widened to a 4-lane divided highway.
The folks in Franklin County can be summed up by the fact that they get everything for the home at Walmart.
But after living in CA, NYC, MA, NJ & GA I hold the highest esteem for North Carolina. It holds itself to a higher standard and absolutely is a top-tier state in the league with NY, FL and CA.
It is a state of small towns, that’s its DNA despite the growing medium-sized metros.
Look at the newspaper for Franklin County, it could win an award for the ugliest design, but when you read some of the stories (paywall), you can get a sense of how advanced the state’s government agencies are, and bringing prosperity to all the 100 mostly rural counties has always been the state’s mission.
I’m from Louisburg in Franklin County, the only county bordering Wake that hasn’t yet transitioned from poor and rural.
Granville, Nash and Harnett Counties say hi!
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