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Part of the reason I refused to relocate to Raleigh is that the office was so isolated.

It wasn't just getting food, though that was certainly a hassle whenever I was visiting that office. It was also the infeasibility of finding a place to live that would leave me with less than an hour total time spent in the car per day. Let alone a location that would let me walk or take a bus to work, which is my strong preference. I'm in a dense city now, and my total commute is admittedly longer than an hour, but half of it is walking and the other half is reading a book or knitting, so it hardly ever feels like a waste of time.

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I don't know your specifics, but I just moved to the bay area from the RTP area, having lived there for the last 13 years. The worst commute my wife or I ever had was when we lived in south-ish Cary and she had to drive to the Six Forks exit off 540... which still didn't take 30min. You definitely can't live within walking distance of any RTP offices (this was intentional), but you could bike -- lots of folks do. There are lots of great residential neighborhoods within 10-15min drive of any arbitrary part of RTP.

Ha! I used to do the opposite commute. Falls of Neuse & I-540 to Tryon Rd. & US-1. It was a minimum of 35 minutes, but more often 40-50 minutes. I used to listen to some of the MIT Open Courseware lectures during the drive until I realized I was paying more attention to it instead of my driving, and had to stop.

One of the things that Raleigh & Wake County has really done well is create the network of greenway trails. If it works for you, it's entirely possible to use them to commute on a bike.

You're 100% right --> the commute westward on 540 (from N. Raleigh toward RTP) and the commute eastward on 40/440 (toward Raleigh) are much worse. It's even getting bad around the south side with all the growth around Garner the past few years. We lived in Cary & worked in RTP so didn't really ever have any commute problems.

Do they have restaurants, cafes, or convenience stores in the Park (even if overpriced)? I searched their site and Wikipedia but they don't seem to (or they make it impossible to find on their site):

http://www.rtp.org/?s=restaurant

I don't know if there's any restaurants in the park proper, but the new Park redevelopment plans calls for building retail, dining and apparently residential space in the Park

http://www.rtp.org/about-us/park-center/

I ruled out RTP because of the 4hr round-trip to the ocean. Too bad, the sea shore there is beautiful.

[Edit: clarified round trip.]

4 hour drive to the ocean? Does your car have a 30mph speed limiter? Raleigh to Wrightsville Beach is 2 Hours, 1 min according to Google Maps.

So 4h per day drive, unless you sleep under the desk.

Huh?

Even all the way from Durham you can be in Wilmington in 2 hours and a few minutes.

4 hours will get you almost all the way to Charleston, SC which is way way way far away.

Presumably foobarian would also like to get back from the ocean also.

Who ever describes trip distances in total trip time?

Man, really want to travel to Shanghai one day, but just really don't have 24 hours

Sure, it might have made more sense to write "4hrs there and back" or "4hrs return", but it seemed obvious to me and I'm just a dumb high school drop-out welder.

Sorry guys I should have been more clear. Edited to say "round-trip."

Though downtown Raleigh today is quite a difference from RTP. I used to visit RTP and Apex quite a bit with a previous employer. And, in my current job, I had to go to the NC Centennial Campus initially. All required rental cars. Now it's an Uber to downtown Raleigh. No car required.

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