Are these neighborhoods really that remote? (Raleigh, Durham: homes, schools, shop)

[mcfamilyof4]

We visited for the 2nd time over the weekend and loved the homes in the following neighborhoods:

Porto Fino
Heritage
Forrest Ridge

At Forrest Ridge I felt like we were up in the boonies, but in reality i doubt that it is really all that far. So when i got home i started looking at some of the neighborhoods in wake forest and love them too:

Devonshire
Sutherland
Twin Creeks

Are these neighborhoods as far away from shopping/retail/schools as they look on the map? I love that you get 1.5 to 2 acre wooded lots. My fear i guess is that we will be remote and have a hard time making friends being so far out.

thanks. we are coming for the final choosing trip next week!!!!!!

[Desdemona123]

Originally Posted by mcfamilyof4

We visited for the 2nd time over the weekend and loved the homes in the following neighborhoods:

Porto Fino
Heritage
Forrest Ridge

At Forrest Ridge I felt like we were up in the boonies, but in reality i doubt that it is really all that far. So when i got home i started looking at some of the neighborhoods in wake forest and love them too:

Devonshire
Sutherland
Twin Creeks

Are these neighborhoods as far away from shopping/retail/schools as they look on the map? I love that you get 1.5 to 2 acre wooded lots. My fear i guess is that we will be remote and have a hard time making friends being so far out.

thanks. we are coming for the final choosing trip next week!!!!!!

LOL... no, they aren't IBL....but they aren't far out either.

Well...I guess it depends on your defination of 'far out' but they are within mintues of most things (stores, grocery, some resturants etc ) and less then 20 mintues or so to everything else.

[autumngal]

Ditto, it depends on what your meaning of far out is. 20 minutes is very accurate, as new light to ghoston to 50 to go straight into Raleigh. Purnell, 98 to go to Capital Blvd. down to Raleigh. 98 across to go into Durham. And Six Forks is right there to go into middle of Raleigh , well sort of.
Falls Lake, and Beaver Dam are right there, which is great recreation. And also the lakes may make it seem like it is far out because of winding your way around them. And if you get someone driving under the speed limit it may seem longer also.

[NYer]

Yeah, it's far out. Less noise, traffic, lots of crickets...
if that is your sort of thing it is great.
We just love it up here in WF.
If I was 22 again? Not so much!

[mcfamilyof4]

thanks everyone. we are torn right now b/w the southern part of wake forest and the northern part I guess. The good news is that its All Good. So either choice we make will be good for our family. Hope to have a decision made in a little over a week. YIPEEEEEEE