No one likes sitting in traffic. Thankfully, the Carolina Core lets you take your foot off the brake with pleasant commutes that are often up to half the average time of larger metros. With more than 200 trails for hiking, biking and horseback riding, community assets like baseball stadiums, world-class golf courses and performing arts centers, museums, restaurants and shopping galore, there’s plenty to do to fill that extra time on your hands.
Cities and towns in this area from Pinehurst, Sanford and Burlington to some of the largest in the NC Triad – Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem – offer some of the best places to live in North Carolina for families, with world-class public and private schools, activities for kids like the world’s largest natural habitat zoo, and sports recreation for all ages like Family Fundays at High Point Rockers Stadium.