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The best towns and small cities in the US: Chapel Hill, North Carolina


There are plenty of attractive college towns in the US. But Chapel Hill, in the centre of North Carolina, equidistant from its mountains and its coast, blends liberal philosophy and Southern culture in a way that borders on the utopian. “As close to magic as I’ve ever been,” was how author described his days at the University of North Carolina. (The Guardian)

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