Living in North Carolina

In past decades, North Carolina has experienced an explosion of industries that have brought it into the national spotlight. Charlotte is now major center for financial institutions, motorsports and various other Fortune 500 companies. One of the United States' biggest concentrations of high-tech companies is located in Research Triangle Park. Still, old practices thrive in rural North Carolina, with tobacco and the textile industry providing many jobs even today.

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Sitting between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, the business center known as Research Triangle Park is famous for its research and development in the high tech industry. The variety and number of excellent jobs attracts college-educated workers to the area, settling in the housing developments that are nearby. Also home to Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill and other universities, students from around the nation head to Research Triangle Park for school and their first jobs.

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