[1browngirl]

I live NC. I have resided in Raleigh and Cary both and I have to say, I like it. The good thing about the RDU (Raleigh/Durham) area is that its 3 hours away from the beach and the mountains, if you want to take a vacation or just a get away. There are a host of colleges in NC alone... the whole UNC System (Chapel Hill, Charlotte, Pembroke, Wilmington, Asheville, etc), NC STATE, Duke and a host of HBCU's like NCCU, St. Augustines, Shaw, Bennett, Livingston, Fayetteville State, Winston-Salem State, etc. There's always something going on somewhere and you don't have to drive to far to get to it. The weather is ok (if you overlook the ice/snow storms and hurricanes that we are prone to having every now and then).