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Can someone please recommend the best area to live in wake county with good schools and better commute to RTP? I moved to NC, Raleigh area last year from NJ. We are looking to buy a home and I am not sure which area is the best. I have 3 toddlers and I want them to go to the public school when it is time. I have been paying so much in private schools. I don't know much about wake county and I want to make sure we buy in the best area with good school ratings and commute to RTP is under 40 minutes. Any advice will help. Thank you in advance!
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Can someone please recommend the best area to live in wake county with good schools and better commute to RTP? I moved to NC, Raleigh area last year from NJ. We are looking to buy a home and I am not sure which area is the best. I have 3 toddlers and I want them to go to the public school when it is time. I have been paying so much in private schools. I don't know much about wake county and I want to make sure we buy in the best area with good school ratings and commute to RTP is under 40 minutes. Any advice will help. Thank you in advance!
This is a spread out area with many nice places to live and plenty of good schools. The best place to start is to look at the Wake County school website if you are sticking to the Raleigh/Wake Forest area. If you are looking elsewhere, then look into the Durham County school, Orange County School, Johnston County school and Chapel Hill school websites. Then you can do a search on "schools" or "wake county schools" on this board, and you will find a plethora of facts, opinions, pontifications, ideas, complaints, and compliments on many of the schools and school systems in this area.
It would be hard to explain all of it in one post. If you have narrowed down an area or have a price range, it would be easier to give you some information.
Can someone please recommend the best area to live in wake county with good schools and better commute to RTP? I moved to NC, Raleigh area last year from NJ. We are looking to buy a home and I am not sure which area is the best. I have 3 toddlers and I want them to go to the public school when it is time. I have been paying so much in private schools. I don't know much about wake county and I want to make sure we buy in the best area with good school ratings and commute to RTP is under 40 minutes. Any advice will help. Thank you in advance!
If you're looking solely in WF, HS, and Raleigh? Raleigh is the closest to RTP. HS is 2nd. WF is last.
Wake County has a countywide school system, so your question about "best schools" is tougher to answer.
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Can someone please recommend the best area to live in wake county with good schools and better commute to RTP? I moved to NC, Raleigh area last year from NJ. We are looking to buy a home and I am not sure which area is the best. I have 3 toddlers and I want them to go to the public school when it is time. I have been paying so much in private schools. I don't know much about wake county and I want to make sure we buy in the best area with good school ratings and commute to RTP is under 40 minutes. Any advice will help. Thank you in advance!
A lot of people are asking the same question as you are, where is the best area to
live in Wake County in relation to good schools and commute times.
Years ago the answer to your question was easy, not so today at least in regards to
the school aspect.
My advice pick an area you really love that is within your commute time that you can
see raising your family in. Once you enter the WCPSS you do not have very much control
where you children will end up, period. Do not choose a neighborhood or house based
on the schools totally because there are no guarantees your children will go to those
WCPSS schools.
Whichever area you do choose there are private schools (even though I know you
mentioned you have been doing that and would prefer public) and home school if when
the time comes you do not want to be held hostage by WCPSS as far as where your
children are sent to school.
If you find the right area/house for your family all the other things have a way of working
themselves out. Good luck! Btw the commute from Wake Forest into RTP is not as impossible
as others on the board may have suggested. It depends on the time you leave and route
you take.
I know more Yankee transplants in Wake Forest than not. We moved from NJ 2.5 years ago, and it seems almost everybody I meet is from the northeastern part of the U.S. - New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, or Massachusetts.
Yankee transplant. I love it thanks. What do you think of the driving around there?
can anyone tell me how the neighbors and teenagers interact with each other, and if there are a lot of teens and kids in wake forest?
also when there are new comers that just move into neighborhoods, are they welcomed?
Considering moving to Wake Forest, NC. Can anyone PLEASE tell me what the neighborhood is like? Is there a town you can walk to? Are the streets tree lined? Houses close to each other (a plus). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Susan
Considering moving to Wake Forest, NC. Can anyone PLEASE tell me what the neighborhood is like? Is there a town you can walk to? Are the streets tree lined? Houses close to each other (a plus). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Susan
There are many neighborhoods in WF...almost all are tree filed....lot sizes vary...and yes we have a nice little downtown area...most of the town is very walkable....but you'll probably still have to drive to the grocery stores.....
There are many neighborhoods in WF...almost all are tree filed....lot sizes vary...and yes we have a nice little downtown area...most of the town is very walkable....but you'll probably still have to drive to the grocery stores.....
A walkable downtown and a downtown you can walk to aren't the exact same thing. Most of the newer neighborhoods in Wake Forest aren't exactly close to the town proper.
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Btw the commute from Wake Forest into RTP is not as impossible 
