Cary
Luxury Single-Level Living

North Carolina is a popular state for retirees—for many reasons. The temperate climate still provides four seasons, but without the bitter cold winter that northern states experience. Whether you want to relax and enjoy a quiet retirement or get out and experience a wide range of activities, you’ll fit in here.

Cary is a unique North Carolina. It presents a small-town atmosphere, but urban living isn’t far away. Located within the famed “Research Triangle”, Cary is close to the cities that make up this region: Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. The area is home to a long list of notable high-tech companies, which explains the name, but there’s so much more to research in and around Cary.

Consider some very good reasons to spend your retirement in Cary, North Carolina.

Locals joke that Cary is actually an acronym for “Concentrated Area of Relocated Yankees”. Less than one-third of the town’s 151,000 residents are natives of Cary. Nearly 20 percent have come here from outside the U.S., which leaves about half of the population as people like you, who have come from elsewhere to make Cary their home.

Cary is consistently ranked as one of the safest towns in America with a population of 100,000 to 500,000 people. Ranked #5 nationwide in 2017, it’s the only North Carolina town to be included in the top 25. In 2014 and 2015, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, Cary was the safest town of its size in the country.

Take a relaxing drive to the west and you’ll be in North Carolina’s scenic Blue Ridge Mountains or Smoky Mountains. Head to the east and you can enjoy the Atlantic coastline, including the Coastal Plain, Cape Hatteras, and Cape Fear. If you enjoy walking, hiking, biking, or jogging, Cary offers more than 60 miles and 36 greenway trails. Cary also has 29 parks, including the 310-acre Bond Park,where you can enjoy boating and water sports on the lake.

The Research Triangle is also home to renowned institutions of higher learning: Duke University, North Carolina State University(about five miles from Cary), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. You’ll have countless opportunities to expand your knowledge and skills by enrolling in a class.Invest some of your newfound free time in exploring new interests and maybe pursuing a degree.

Do you like the transition from one season to the next? Central North Carolina gives you a taste of each one. Spring is refreshing. Summer is cooler than the North and not as hot as southern states, like Florida. Autumn brings vibrant foliage. When winter arrives, the temperatures drop, and you will probably see some snowfall, but it’s not likely to stick around long enough to require shoveling, scraping, or hibernating.

No matter how you look forward to spending your North Carolina retirement, you’ll find plenty of ways to indulge your interests in Cary.