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Carrboro, NC vs Westbrook, ME

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Carrboro is basically a bedroom community, where people who work at or study at UNC over in Chapel Hill lay down for the night. All day they work at UNC only to pay the  More

Carrboro has a strong civic life with a lot of local participation and visionary politics towards making a more sustainable and just community. The center of town has  More

climate is good, 4 seasons, winter is short with just a little  More

Westbrook is a fairly nice place to live overall. I've lived here about four years. It has a long blue collar history, but that has changed somewhat in recent years.  More