Raleigh, NC 2nd Fastest Growing City In America

CNN-Money.com has reported that Raleigh NC has had the second largest gain in population since the census of 2000.

Raleigh has had a bunch of accolades and awards bestowed on it recently and the 230,000 people who moved here in the last nine years probably heard of some of them.

Provo, Utah had a 47% growth in population and claimed the number one spot, while Raleigh's population gain from 2000 to 2009 was 41%.

There are many different groups making up the rise in population, retirees moving down from the northern states for a warmer climate,retirees moving up from Florida for cooler climates. Young married couples looking for great schools and affordable housing. Young single professionals drawn by the high-tech and bio-tech jobs and the major universities in the area. Raleigh was just named "Most Wired City" by Forbes Magazine, beating out Seattle, and San Francisco.























Raleigh is located a mere two and a half hours from some of the best beaches on the East Coast and is three and a half hours from the spectacular Blue Ridge Mountains. The weather is mild almost all year round minus the few weeks of cold in Jan/Feb and yeah it gets a little toasty in Jul/Aug.