Durham and Fayetteville: shitholes
I live in Hope Valley, which is technically Durham, and a shithole it is not. We're closer to Chapel Hill than we are to "the city of Durham" as most people consider it. I can be in Chapel Hill city limits in five minutes, it's a 25 minute+ drive to Durham depending on traffic.
Would be interesting if this entire area attempted to leave Durham and incorporate, most of the residents would be for it I imagine. Durham would never let it happen though, most of the property tax revenue is generated here.