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We rent a house which is walking distance to the Univ., because my boyfriend is a PHD student. The rent isn't bad but I'll tell you, it did take some getting used to. I lived most of my life in the midwest and this enviornment is really different. There are few sidewalks (although almost no cars in our neighborhood). There are giant bugs that I had never seen before (banana spiders and palmetto bug, which I still say are huge flying cockroaches).
The negative stuff aside, there is alot of "green space" here. There are nature trails in the middle of town. There is a small, working pioneer farm at one of the nature parks, an art museum, and a natural history museum with a children's activity room- all free. If the weather is too hot to play outdoors there is also a pre-school play area in the mall. Beaches are about 2 hours away, going either East or West. Also Poe Springs is near by, which is a great old fashioned swimming hole with cold water even on the hottest day.
There is a Homeschool group that meets at O2B Kids, but I know someone who dropped out of the group because she felt the other parents had no control over their own children, but were telling her how to parent.
O2B Kids is an indoor play place (costs to get in) where they have extra curricular classes and pre-school. I took Aidan there once to see if he wanted to go to pre-school there, but there were too many children in one room. He got so scared, he did that scared monkey scrammble up my body that little kids do when horrified.
There is a good teachers' supply store here and the library has a used book sale that fills a large warehouse twice a year.
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