Photographed at the mural behind He’s Not Here on Franklin Street, Drs. Chris and Yomi Adigun – with their kids, Julian, 8, Naomi, 5, and Nylah, 2 – are expecting baby No. 4 in December 2016.
The Relocators THE YOUNG FAMILY Dr. Chris Adigun is no stranger to Chapel Hill. After graduating
from Cornell, the Greensboro native attended UNC for medical school and started her residency in dermatology at the UNC Medical Center. She later moved to Manhattan with husband Yomi Adigun for her training and to join the faculty at NYC Medical Center. When she returned to Chapel Hill four years later, she had her growing brood – Julian, 8, Naomi, 5, and Nylah, 2 – in mind. Making a home in Southern Village two years ago, Dr. Adigun recently opened the Dermatology & Laser Center of Chapel Hill, in nearby Briar Chapel. How did you pick a neighborhood? I sent my husband down to figure it out. He wanted something that felt very social because our kids were used to knowing all their neighbors – the doorman knew their name, the security guard 44
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knew their name. To take the kids to something too remote, we thought, would be too rough of a transition. We knew we had to have a good pizza place and places we could walk or bike to. He also thought Weaver Street Market was great and the pizza place [Pazzo!] was great. He thought Southern Village with its very social vibe, with kids running around everywhere and adults out and about, would be the best fit for us. How did you pick a school for your kids? My son had attended an international school and my daughter had attended a bilingual preschool [in New York]. We thought about that school transition and discovered a lot of great options. I ended up choosing the magnet school Frank Porter Graham Bilingüe Elementary School for the bilingual program and it’s been a good fit for our kids. But Scroggs Elementary is great, St. Thomas