Update on 'Running away from the Rat Race'

So we dove into the house search last weekend and have made some good progress.  I believe we have the neighborhoods narrowed down so that we don't go chasing things that are beyond where we'd like to live.  Durham is and interesting and very unique town in that neighborhood is everything when finding a place to live.  You can't just say, the whole of such-and-such area is a great place to live because things change here in fairly short distances and you have to pay attention to what the particular neighborhood you're looking in is like.  We've also made significant progress on prepping the house to put on the market.  With family coming into town we had serious motivation to get more things done as well.  We had my parents for the weekend and will have my brothers and my niece & nephew joining us on Wednesday.  The plan for now is to have the house up soon after they all return to the glorious state of Minnesota.
Please, if you know someone looking to move to Durham and then need 3 bedrooms and 1600 sq ft, let us know.

Real estate bad mouthing...

I'm no fool, I know Durham has a bad reputation among many in the Triangle and I've tried to get to a place where it doesn't bother me. Most recently I've actually tried to be happy about our bad image as represented in my last post. But, despite my efforts I'm mad again. This recent blog post at Bull City Rising got me wondering if it's ever going to stop. Check out the post and consider trying the Indy's experiment yourself to see what the results are, I'm going to try it at lunch.
No matter what happens I'm falling more and more in love with this city every day and I'm proud to call it home. I guess I'm just troubled by the fact that not so many others may get this chance because they're steered away.