Want to see something even more incredible in NC? Go to the mountains around Boone, Blowing Rock, Asheville and West Jefferson. RTP ain't sh$t in land / home value increases.
You are right about mountain land in North Carolina.
Land that sold for $500 an acre a few years ago is up ten and twenty fold.
The Ginn development company has a new gated community outside of Blowing Rock. They've got their helicopters flying over constantly with prospective buyers picking out their half-million dollar lots. Not houses, lots.