Guess what city is #1?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/...ican_americans
Supa "just give me 35 more years" Dave
Bull City and A2 (Ann Arbor) both on the list...two of my favorite cities. I think I shall retire in both, haha!
Durham-really? One has to be joking or perhaps they meant the greater triangle area. No way I would even consider retiring to the city or county of Durham, let alone selecting it as a top choice.
Perhaps the city council arranged for compromising photos while the editors were in town.
On top of that it also has the highest percentage of people over 65yrs in the Triangle (9.3%, compared to 5.4% Cary, 8.3% Raleigh, 4.0% Morrisville, 8.0% CH). So there's a larger community of over-65s than elsewhere in the triangle. It also has a long and vibrant African American culture and history that might be appealing to black retirees. I don't know how germane it is, but Durham also has the higest ratio of AfAm population among the major Triangle towns - 45% or so, compared to 28% for Raleigh, and much smaller numbers elsewhere. That might also be appealing to black retirees.
* Numbers taken from census data listed on Wikipedia.
ETA: Oh, and to note, my (white) parents are thinking of retiring, and really like the Durham area. I think it appeals to many of that age.
Durham has a long history as an important place in African American culture. One of the really important essays on this is WEB Dubois' The Upbuilding of Black Durham
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/dubois/dubois.html
Durham was one of the better places in the South for Blacks prior to the civil rights era:
http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Con...id=oid%3A43180
DuBois also said:
This was, of course, before the Whites put the Durham Freeway through the heart of the Black business district.There is a singular group in Durham where a black man may get up in the morning from a mattress made by black men, in a house which a black man built out of lumber which black men cut and planed; he may put on a suit which he bought at a colored haberdashery and socks knit at a colored mill; he may cook victuals from a colored grocery on a stove which black men fashioned; he may earn his living working for colored men, be sick in a colored hospital and buried from a colored church; and the Negro insurance society will pay his widow enough to keep his children in a colored school. This is surely progress.
If I lived in the Triangle it would definitely be in Durham. But I don't think I'd retire to the area though. The summers are terrible. More importantly, except for a small area of Chapel Hill and a small area of Durham (a few blocks either side of Whole Foods), the entire region is a grotesque sprawl cluster. The elderly need to be able to get to stuff without firing the car up. The entire region is incredibly pedestrian-unfriendly. There are other places in the country with good hospitals.
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