the durham area is really nice for the most part… downtown has really been cleaned up, especially around the new ball park for the durham bulls… TONS of awesome restaurants, local shops, scenery, etc… you will be right in the middle of 3 major universities (duke, unc chapel hill, and nc state) so there is plenty of nightlife and college chicks to go around if that’s your thing… the car scene is pretty good down there as well (check out www.horsepowerjunkies.com for your local forum fix) with several local drag strips and you wont be far at all from V.I.R. (virginia international raceway) definitely try to get out to one of their events if you can- the track is GORGEOUS and often hosts events which air on speedtv… there are also quite a few reputable speed shops down there… summer, you can expect it to be in the 90’s pretty much every day and fairly humid… there are a lot of mosquitos, so be prepared for that… i’m not really up to date on the school systems down there since i graduated over 10 years ago, but my sister goes to a charter school which seems to be really good… hopefully this helps