Raleigh, NC 2nd Fastest Growing City In America
CNN-Money.com has reported that Raleigh NC has had the second largest gain in population since the census of 2000.
Raleigh has had a bunch of accolades and awards bestowed on it recently and the 230,000 people who moved here in the last nine years probably heard of some of them.
Provo, Utah had a 47% growth in population and claimed the number one spot, while Raleigh's population gain from 2000 to 2009 was 41%.
There are many different groups making up the rise in population, retirees moving down from the northern states for a warmer climate,retirees moving up from Florida for cooler climates. Young married couples looking for great schools and affordable housing. Young single professionals drawn by the high-tech and bio-tech jobs and the major universities in the area. Raleigh was just named "Most Wired City" by Forbes Magazine, beating out Seattle, and San Francisco.
Raleigh is located a mere two and a half hours from some of the best beaches on the East Coast and is three and a half hours from the spectacular Blue Ridge Mountains. The weather is mild almost all year round minus the few weeks of cold in Jan/Feb and yeah it gets a little toasty in Jul/Aug. 
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Raleigh looks like a great place to live. No wonder it is growing so fast!
Wow David. Great presentation of the facts, but you had me at that picture of Krispy Kreme!
Marcia, it's changed dramatically in the ten or so years we've been here.
Bill, Thanks so much. They are so bad!