Triangle Ranked #1 in List of Smartest US Cities
Do you know how smart your neighbor is? If you live in NC’s Triangle then odds are that they are pretty intelligent, says the online publication The Daily Beast. This week the web magazine released a list of America’s most intelligent metropolitan areas; with a whopping Daily Beast IQ of 170, the populace of the Raleigh-Durham area topped the list. The Daily beast explains that the proximity of “two of the nation’s elite schools (Duke and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)” were major factors contributing to RDU’s first-place ranking, citing that the schools of the Triangles have “led to one of the nation’s great technology incubators.”
Of course, the intelligence of the denizens of Durham would not surprise any members of the Duke community—but we aren’t just smart; we’re cultured too, or at least well fed, says Bon Appetit Magazine, which selected the Durham-Chapel area as the “foodiest” small city in America. With all these accolades, there’s no wondering why US News ranked Durham number five in their listing of the top places to live.
