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If you're interested in Chapel Hill/Carrboro for the schools, do be careful of the school district boundaries when you're looking. Chapel Hill/Carrboro schools are a small town based system. Orange county has its own school system as does Chatham county. Some homes with a Chapel Hill address may be in Chatham, Durham, or Orange county outside the CHCCS district boundaries.
This is a really good point. Because Chapel Hill sits in the SE corner of the county, it spills over into two others counties. I suspect that homes in the CHCCS boundaries would carry a premium in price compared to ones within surrounding systems' boundaries.
As for the commute to Raleigh from CH, the tough part is that one has to go through RTP. Depending on the time of travel, this can translate into a heavy front half of the commute in the morning and a heavy back half of the commute in the afternoon.
No, CHTransplant, there are many properties in Chatham that also have Chapel Hill addresses. All of Briar Chapel does, although, I think they should have Pittsboro addresses since I know properties north of there (off Mann's Chapel Rd closer to CH) that do have P-boro addresses. Not sure who they paid off to get that, but they are definitely using a Chapel Hill address in Chatham county (Briar Chapel | Chapel Hill | North Carolina | New Homes). There are many other properties up closer to the Chatham/Orange line along the 15-501 area that have CH addresses, too. There are a lot of really nice homes off Booth Rd that are in Chatham right up next to the Orange co line. Can't remember the name of that neighborhood, but the reason you get more house for your money is the county.
Plus there are obviously many homes in Orange county that aren't in the Chapel Hill or Carrboro town limits so kids living there go to Orange co schools.
But when looking for a home and the address is Chapel Hill folks don't always realize that it's not Chapel Hill—a mite confusing, no? The "metro" area of Chapel Hill, such as it is, certainly does spill over into Chatham.
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On my old board one of the posters used to call a place that fell outside the town limits but used the town name as "faux [insert name of town here]." So a person who lived in Chapel Hill in Chatham County, for example, actually lived in Faux Chapel Hill. People used to get annoyed by that, but I thought it was a kind of accurate name for it. Briar Chapel is definitely Faux Chapel Hill.
There's also Sri Shirdi SaiBaba Mandir on Maynard and there's another one I can't remember the name of that meets informally but they're working on acquiring land for a temple from what my coworker that affiliated with them was telling me.
On my old board one of the posters used to call a place that fell outside the town limits but used the town name as "faux [insert name of town here]." So a person who lived in Chapel Hill in Chatham County, for example, actually lived in Faux Chapel Hill. People used to get annoyed by that, but I thought it was a kind of accurate name for it. Briar Chapel is definitely Faux Chapel Hill.
Gonna start using this! So many white people seem to live in Faux Washington DC or Faux Chicago.
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