Stay away if you are coming from the north.
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10/28/2011
I moved to Raleigh, NC last year from East Haven, CT because I was offered an IT job there.
Pros:
-Cost of Living is very low in comparison to CT.
-If your a Baptist then this state is for you.
-If you have family who are from the south or of southern origin and your anglo-saxton or african american your good.
Cons:
-LET ME SAY THIS CLEARLY, southerners dislike northerners. They refer to us as "Yankee's" and if you don't talk like them and use "Y'all" they will know you are not one of them.
-You have to have excellent credit to rent an apartment and they always charge you out the nose for a pet deposit, application fee, this fee that fee etc.. I rented from an apartment in Raleigh, and just because I complained about another tenant that was harassing us on Thanksgiving we were giving our walking papers and subsequently sued for $2000.00 fore damages they claimed our dogs did which wasn't the case.
-They percieve us "Yankee's" as rude and cut you off when in conversation.
Needless to say that my experience living in Raleigh was a horrible experience... I was in a car accident where I was T-boned by an oil truck in Downtown Raleigh where my girlfriend almost died. It took the cops 2 hours to get to the scene. They proclaimed it was my fault after they saw I had "Connectictut" plates on my car where they wrote me a ticket for failing to stop at a stop sign when the truth of the matter was that the oil truck was going 65 in a 30 in a one way road. The owner of the oil company was shaking hads with the officers on scene and being buddy buddy while they took pictures of the damage. There is a huge sense of southern pride down there and they aren't over the civil war. They show respect constantly for all the southern civil war soliders constantly in the Oakwood cemetary. They also fly the rebel flag there. They are nice to your face but talk crap behind your back.. I was fired from jobs because I don't talk or act like they do... I have lost 3 IT jobs down there because of it. Everything on Sunday is closed until 1pm for Church... specifically Baptists. Good luck trying to find a Catholic Church, or Good Italain Food... they are also very racist against Italian Americans - Just go on you tube and look at the southern states nissan commericals.
Its very bad there if your not from the south otherwise your good.
Joe | East Haven, CT