Lost In "The Triangle"
The area around Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill is locally referred to as "The Triangle", and much like those other infamous triangles (Bermuda and Dragon) there are characteristics about this place that make you wonder if some mystic forces are at work.
First, "The Triangle" is not a triangle, the name is loosely derived from the area known as Research Triangle Park or RTP, which in itself is more of an oblong residing in the area between those three cities , but mostly in the town of Morrisville. But the area affectionately referred to as "The Triangle" is pretty much undefined and covers most if not all of three counties, Wake, Orange and Durham, and any other geograhic area that could benefit either socially or commercially from being associated with "The Triangle"
As a Real Estate Agent I work in "The Triangle" and it is such a vast territory I do get lost, I usually find my way to a spot that I can recognize very quickly, but I sometimes worry if I will resurface from a new subdivision like Rip Van Winkle, my beard touching the floor and the new home I have just shown being sold by another agent.
"The Triangle" is a volotile real estate market, where the rest of the country has taken a dive, we still march onwards and upwards, (are those mystic forces at work?) homes on the market for around 45 days on average. New home subdivisions spring up like alien sitings in Area 52, there are so many we seem to have run out of appealing names, and are starting to re-use them. What is that makes a communitywith the word Arbor in its name so attractive? I suppose it has more to to withan arbor being "a leafy, shady recess formed by tree branches, shrubs" than a "shaft, or axis that holds, turns, or supports a rotating cutting tool or grinding wheel" but you get my drift. With threes subdivisions named Churchill in "The Triangle" you can see its easy to get lost.
Roads in "The Triangle" magically change names as drive along them, they don't go in the direction you think you are going 55 East actually runs due South through "The Triangle" and some don't end up where you think they will, some major 4 lane highways just dead end, and not all circular route actual go round anaything.
So what else is it about "The Triangle", well if getting lost in it is easy enough, knowing if and when you are in it is tough one. I have asked many the local natives, nobody is certain, , yes of course than can define it, "its that area which encompasses Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill", so is Cary in "the Traingle"? what about Holly Springs or Fuquay-Varina, and is Apex perhaps the peak of the traingle. Just taking a look at the map and drawing a Triangle around the three cities won't help that would produce a long thin triangle that would include the Town of Smithfield, which I don't think is actually considered to be in "the Triangle", and if Cary were to be included, it is after all one of the largest population areas in the region, we should rename it "The Rectangle", how does Research Rectangle Park sound. its more appropriate RTP is rectangular. The four cities or Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Cary would form its boundaries, and perhaps I may no longer be "Lost in The Traingle" but I don't think so... Here's to "The Rectangle"
First, "The Triangle" is not a triangle, the name is loosely derived from the area known as Research Triangle Park or RTP, which in itself is more of an oblong residing in the area between those three cities , but mostly in the town of Morrisville. But the area affectionately referred to as "The Triangle" is pretty much undefined and covers most if not all of three counties, Wake, Orange and Durham, and any other geograhic area that could benefit either socially or commercially from being associated with "The Triangle"
As a Real Estate Agent I work in "The Triangle" and it is such a vast territory I do get lost, I usually find my way to a spot that I can recognize very quickly, but I sometimes worry if I will resurface from a new subdivision like Rip Van Winkle, my beard touching the floor and the new home I have just shown being sold by another agent.
"The Triangle" is a volotile real estate market, where the rest of the country has taken a dive, we still march onwards and upwards, (are those mystic forces at work?) homes on the market for around 45 days on average. New home subdivisions spring up like alien sitings in Area 52, there are so many we seem to have run out of appealing names, and are starting to re-use them. What is that makes a communitywith the word Arbor in its name so attractive? I suppose it has more to to withan arbor being "a leafy, shady recess formed by tree branches, shrubs" than a "shaft, or axis that holds, turns, or supports a rotating cutting tool or grinding wheel" but you get my drift. With threes subdivisions named Churchill in "The Triangle" you can see its easy to get lost.
Roads in "The Triangle" magically change names as drive along them, they don't go in the direction you think you are going 55 East actually runs due South through "The Triangle" and some don't end up where you think they will, some major 4 lane highways just dead end, and not all circular route actual go round anaything.
So what else is it about "The Triangle", well if getting lost in it is easy enough, knowing if and when you are in it is tough one. I have asked many the local natives, nobody is certain, , yes of course than can define it, "its that area which encompasses Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill", so is Cary in "the Traingle"? what about Holly Springs or Fuquay-Varina, and is Apex perhaps the peak of the traingle. Just taking a look at the map and drawing a Triangle around the three cities won't help that would produce a long thin triangle that would include the Town of Smithfield, which I don't think is actually considered to be in "the Triangle", and if Cary were to be included, it is after all one of the largest population areas in the region, we should rename it "The Rectangle", how does Research Rectangle Park sound. its more appropriate RTP is rectangular. The four cities or Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Cary would form its boundaries, and perhaps I may no longer be "Lost in The Traingle" but I don't think so... Here's to "The Rectangle"
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