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Chapel Hill is the quintessential college town. Home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, it boasts a culturally diverse population of professors, students, business professionals, and retirees, from around the world. It also claims bragging rights to the highest concentration of PhD’s anywhere in the country! With its culturally diverse, highly educated population and the resources of a major research university, Chapel Hill offers a huge variety of intellectually engaging attractions and events. It lures people from across the Triangle to its museums, planetarium, botanical garden and arboretum, theaters, music, restaurants and shops, and, of course, collegiate sports.
With
neighboring
Carrboro,
the
area
has
a
population
of
64,000
(Chapel
Hill,
47,000;
Carrboro,
17,000).
Despite
the
numbers,
this
community
has
retained
it
small-town
character.
Residents
living
in
the
historic
district
can
experience
Chapel
Hill’s
southern
history;
those
in
rural
areas
enjoy
wide
spaces
and
scenic
beauty.
Many
new
communities
have
sprung
up
in
Chapel
Hill,
offering
all
flavors
of
suburban
and
small-town
life.
The
Governor’s
Club,
with
its
Jack
Nicklaus-designed
golf
course,
is
just
one
example.
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