We lived in Mt. Gilead, NC 40 yrs. ago in a lakeside cottage. It’s not too far from Raleigh; and we used to drive over to Raleigh to get KFC because there wasn’t any place to eat out in Mt. Gilead - well, except a burger joint in somebody’s house there. Raleigh didn’t seem all that big then, but I’m sure it grew. Discouraging to hear that the snotty liberals have taken over NC.
In the late 1960’s Raleigh had about 160,000 inside the city limits. Now it is probably 8 times that, and that does not include all the surrounding areas, like Garner, Apex, Cary, Zebulon, etc. That whole place has exploded. I think the metropolitan area is upwards of 1.5 million now. RTP is a big reason for it.