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Hill Fact:
Chapel Hill was the
filming location for the 1997 movie “Lost Highway” and the 1998 comedy “Patch
Adams.”
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CHAPEL
HILL-CARRBORO
The Third Point of the Research Triangle
COMMUNITY PROFILE: The Ideal
University Town
The University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation's oldest public university,
opened its doors in 1795. Over the past 200 years the university has
garnered a worldwide reputation, and a small city has grown up around it
that reflects the varied interests and lifestyles of the students,
faculty and alumni, who come from all over the world.
That diversity
makes for a mix of eclectic entertainment, a multitude of ethnic
restaurants, art galleries, boutiques, cultural centers, museums and
housing that ranges from condos to large estates in Chapel Hill and
neighboring Carrboro.
Most recently the A
& E channel recognized Chapel Hill as the #2 city in their “Top Ten
Cities to Have it All,” and Money magazine rated the town as the
#1 “Best Place to Live in the South.” Although home to more than 28,000
students, Chapel Hill and Carrboro have many benefits and opportunities
for retirees, including state-of-the-art medical facilities. Carrboro
recently was ranked one of the top five places to retire by U.S. News
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NEIGHBORHOOD
| Population:
46,798 Chapel Hill
/ 16,782 Carrboro |
| City Limits:
19
sq. mi. / 4.3 sq. mi. |
| Neighborhood Description:
Small City |
| Average Home Qualities
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Home Price: $314,380 |
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Sq. Ft: 2,232 sq/ft
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| Orange County Unemployment
Rate: 1.3% |
| Median Family Income:
$73,483 |
| College Graduates: 77%
Chapel Hill / 66% Carrboro |
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The Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City School System is considered to be one of the best in
the nation. Consistently ranking at the top of the state in student test
scores (Average SAT combined score-1175), the System also boasts the
lowest dropout rate in the state. The System consists of 15 schools: 9
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ATTRACTIONS
The
Morehead Planetarium and Science Center
is located on East Franklin Street, and has dazzled children and adults alike
with multimedia star shows, exhibits and year-round programming.
The Ackland Art Museum’s
permanent collection of over 15,000 objects includes the art of Asia, Africa,
Europe and America, with works ranging from ancient times to the 21st century.
The Museum holds the most significant collection of Asian art in the state and
one of the largest collections of works on paper in the Southeast. Long known
for its strength in European painting and sculpture, the Ackland has more
recently added additional emphasis to the building of its collection of
twentieth-century and contemporary art.
Orange County,
Chapel Hill and
Carrboro
Parks and Recreation Departments
manage a total of 25 park facilities covering nearly 500 acres and provide a
multitude of youth and adult programs. Area recreation facilities include tennis
and basketball courts, bicycle paths and nature trails.
North Carolina Botanical
Garden is
the largest natural botanical garden in the southeast, consisting of 600 acres
of preserved land with nature trails, carnivorous plant collections, aquatics
and herb gardens. The facility also features revolving exhibits of paintings,
quilts and other media, plus sculpture in various sections of the botanical
collection. Coker Arboretum is a five-acre garden created on the UNC
campus in 1903 and now part of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. It contains
more than 500 species of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Two prominent
features are the recently renovated 300-ft. native-vine arbor and an adjacent
stone gathering circle.
Kenan Memorial Stadium
has hosted Tar Heel
football games since 1927, and the
Dean E. Smith Center, the third largest on-campus arena in the country,
has hosted many exciting basketball games.
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AVERAGE COMMUTES
| Apex |
30-40 minutes |
| Cary |
30-35 minutes |
| Durham |
15-25 minutes |
| Fuquay-Varina |
50-60 minutes |
| Garner |
35-45 minutes |
| Greensboro |
1 hour |
| Raleigh |
35-45 minutes |
| Raleigh/Durham Airport |
20-30 minutes |
| Research Triangle Park
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15-25 minutes |
| Sanford |
50-60 minutes |
| Southern Pines
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1 hour, 20 minutes |
LINKS OF INTEREST
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The Varsity Theatre is an icon of downtown
Chapel Hill. Perhaps it's the magical power of the tunnel of lights leading you
into the larger theater that has kept the theater alive. Or it could be the
exotic confections and microbrewed beers at the concession stand. We'll never
know... but you can count on the Varsity surviving multiplexes to entertain us
for another 50 years. (Excerpted from
AOL Cityguide) |
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