Other big players benefiting from the tech boom include seventh-place Raleigh-Cary, N.

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No. 2 on the list is North Carolina's Raleigh-Cary metropolitan area, whose population grew 47% in the 2000s to more than 1.1 million.

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Another area with strong growth projections is the Raleigh-Cary, N.

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