The Raleigh/Cary area is a great place to live, work, and raise a family. We are in close proximity to the Blue Ridge Mountains as well as the Atlantic Coast. Our natural beauty is a boon for the outdoor enthusiast. We typically have 220 days of sunshine per year with rain being well distributed throughout the year. We have award winning restaurants as well as a wonderful blend of art, music and night-time entertainment.

Check Us Out:

• Explore North Carolina
• Downtown Raleigh Alliance
• ZSpotlight.com
• CitySearch - The Triangle City Guide
• Wake County
• Cary Chamber of Commerce
• Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce
• Carolina Hurricanes
• Triangle School Guide Magazine

See How We Rank:

• Raleigh is #1 in Forbes Magazine's Best Business & Career List for the second year in a row.
• North Carolina ranks #1 overall in Site Selection's U.S. Business Climate List
• Raleigh is #2 in the Best Mid-sized Metrowide Public Schools List according to Expansion Management's Dec. 2007 Education Quotient Report
• #2 Best City for Jobs, Forbes, October 2007
• North Carolina ranked fourth in 2006 among the states that U.S. adults said they would choose to live in other than their current state of residence (Harris Interactive Poll).
• Money Magazine voted Cary 5th place on their list of America’s Best Small Cities for cities with population of greater than 50k but less than 300k, July 2006
• Money Magazine voted Raleigh 4th best place to live among big cities with populations greater than 300k, July 2006
• Cary has recently been named one of the top ten places to live in the United States by both Relocate-America.com (June 2007 and March 2006) and Frommers.com (May 2006).  Relocate-America made their selection based on education, employment, economy, crime, parks, recreation and housing.  Frommers selected Cary based on affordability, education, health and safety, lifestyle and family population profile.
• #1 Best Place to Live, MSN House & Home, July 2003
• #1 Best Place to Live & Work, Employment Review Magazine, June 2003
• #1 Hottest Job Market, Business 2.0, March 2004
• #2 Best Place for Business and Careers, Forbes, May 2005
• #1 City with the Happiest Workers, Hudson Employment Index, March 2004
• #2 Most Educated City US Census Bureau-American Community Survey, 2003 (Released April 2005)
• #2 Best Public Education System, Expansion Management, April 2005
• 2005 National Superintendent of the Year, (Bill McNeal, Wake County Public Schools)
• #3 Best Education In The Biggest Cities Forbes, February 2004 # 2 Best Place for Education Forbes Magazine, June 2003
• #1 Best City for Education, Places Rated Almanac, Millennium Edition
• The Town of Cary has been declared the 8th safest of 371 large cities in the nation in the 13th Annual Morgan Quitno Safest (And Most Dangerous) City Award.  This is the eighth year in a row that Cary has been ranked in the top 10 safest cities in the U.S. Cary was also recognized as the 3rd safest among communities with populations of 100,000 to 499,999.  Cary was also recognized as the 3rd safest among communities with populations of 100,000 to 499,999.

And it’s not too shabby for the singles folks, either!

• Forbes ranks the Raleigh-Durham metro area fourth on its annual list
  of best U.S. cities to be single in - 2005
• #4 Best City for Dating, Sperling's Best Places, May 2004
• #4 City That Rocks, Esquire Magazine, April 2004
• Hottest Town in the East (Cary, NC) Money Magazine, January 2004
• #6 Most Fun City, Cranium, January 2004
• #1 College Town (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) – USA TODAY, August 2003
• #9 Best City for Singles, Forbes Magazine, June 2003

From Wikipedia:

Raleigh is the capital of the State of North Carolina and the county seat of Wake County, USA. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. The city has a population of approximately 374,320 (January 1, 2008 estimate), making it the second most populous in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the 15th fastest growing city in the United States and according to City of Raleigh Planning Department's Growth Management Division, Raleigh is the 49th-largest city in the United States.

Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill make up the three primary cities of the Research Triangle metropolitan region. The regional name originated after the 1959 creation of the Research Triangle Park, located midway between the cities of Raleigh and Durham. The Research Triangle region encompasses the U.S. Census Bureau's Combined Statistical Area (CSA) of Raleigh-Durham-Cary. The estimated population of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary CSA was 1,565,223 as of July 1, 2006, with the Raleigh-Cary Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) portion estimated at 994,551 residents.

While almost all of Raleigh is located within Wake County a small portion of the city extends into neighboring Durham County. The towns of Cary, Garner, Wake Forest, Apex, Holly Springs, Clayton, and Knightdale are some of Raleigh's nearby suburbs.

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