when I went there to visit my wife's family, it certainly seemed like they were still busy building that area up
Uh, RTP has been in existence since 1959. IBM has been here since '65. Cisco since '98 or '99. Nortel (not such a big deal now, admittedly) since the '80s or maybe even '70s. Red Hat and Red Storm were founded here.
Yeah, I understand all that, and no there's no excuse for it. I guess I was thinking more of that Cary area, which admittedly was the only area we covered much of. They took us to Raleigh but we didn't spend much time in the business areas. I got the impression from them that the Durham area was a tad depressed at the moment, though I don't know how true that is.
Regardless, there should be
something there. I do like that I have a Micro Center about a mile from me.