Get to Know Durham

Durham is a city that invokes a strong loyalty in its residents — and not just during the annual NCAA championships, when the whole city cheers for the Duke Blue Devils. It’s no mystery why Durhamites love their hometown: The city is small enough to feel like a warm and welcoming community and big enough to have something for everyone. There’s a Goldilocks quality to Durham as it’s a bit funkier (and smaller) than Raleigh but has more resources (and is significantly bigger) than Chapel Hill. Durham is home to Duke and North Carolina Central University, but it has always been more than a college town. The city’s fortunes were built on the tobacco industry, but since the 2000s, Durham has dramatically raised its cool quotient with the explosion of an eclectic and innovative dining scene and the transformation of former tobacco factories into mixed-use buildings that have successfully brought together Durham’s past and present.

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Living in the Research Triangle

The Research Triangle, or just the Triangle, is the three-sided region encompassed by the invisible lines that connect its three anchor cities: Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. This alliance came about in the late 1950s when academics at the three major research universities in each city — North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Duke in Durham, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — proposed the creation of a research park to allow the three schools to collaborate. The result, Research Triangle Park, which borders all three cities, quickly became an enormous success. As a result of RTP’s development, the Triangle has become an incredibly vibrant place to live, attracting newcomers with a combination of historic architecture, Southern charm, a delicious food scene, and an atmosphere of college town coolness married to high-tech employment opportunities and investment.