[brh_jr]

Why do companies say they are in Raleigh-Durham and they are in Durham or vice versa? Why not just say Durham?

Even worse are the ones that say Raleigh and they are in Durham or Cary.

Do companies in other cities do this same misdirection?

[javery]

Most of us actually live in Raleigh so we want to make sure people searching for Raleigh in the thread find us. (from North Raleigh it's about the same time to either Downtown Durham or Downtown Raleigh)

[mumrah]

It's just an annoying convention around here. My best guess is because the street address can be one of 5 or 6 cities (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Wake Forest, Morrisville, Apex, etc) and so people talk in terms of the metropolitan area which is Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill or the "triangle".

[joeyo]

I think it's because of the airport code (Raleigh-Durham/RDU). Because of that, people who aren't from the area think that the two cities are a lot closer than they actually are.

As a former Durham native, I've always said Durham-Raleigh. :-)

[brh_jr]

Well for techies it seems it should be Durham-Raleigh, because most of the jobs are there. I don't consider RTP to be a real place it is really just Durham.

[philhippus]

    Raleigh* Durham;

So I start Monday?