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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 3324560, member: 2141"] On the corp side, while RDU has a lot of employers, outside of the Universities and their hospitals, many are not headquartered there - Cisco Systems (Silicon Valley), GlaxoSmithKline (UK), Wells Fargo (San Francisco), Lenovo (Hong Kong), Fidelity (Boston), etc. I think SAS is one of their biggest. Red Hat was another at one time; but, they got bought by IBM (NY). In Charlotte, they Have Bank of America, Lowe's, Honeywell, Sun Trust/BB&T, etc. So, that and population-wise, Charlotte is a lot bigger. My contention is that the Raleigh soccer team has been around for a long-time, has a strong basis, and they have a proposed soccer stadium to plug into Raleigh. Charlotte has money and a NFL stadium. [/QUOTE]