newly transplant...dissapointed
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7/29/2005
i think most data and stats on raleigh are highly skewed...everything i read about Raleigh includes both Durham and Chapel Hill and some even include Cary... I think that throws off everything because these ciites are not close to each other... if one is looking for nightlife in Raleigh, the stats include bars for Durham, but we are talking a good 45 minute drive! and the "single poulation" that city websites brag about here are skewed by the enormous amount of colleges in the area--- ages 18-21... this is a YOUNG place to live....and then these YOUNGINs down here in the south wed before age 22....so MANY young couples with kids...also very churchy, not spiritual really just denominational.... and LOTS of pro-bush stickers! leftys beware! also EXTREMELY segregated... still... confederate flags, coors light, southern drawls....and oddly enuf more PHDS per Capita than any other city in AMERICA! but they all stay in chapel hill or surrounding neighborhood of DUKE, or of coure RTP area...not public housing/low income black neighborhoods like Allston in Durham or off of MLK in Southeast Raleigh...this is the hood...while the rich white raleighian sips his carmel macchiato on peace street before his spin class at some yuppie glenwood south fitness club the single mother of three sits at joblink unqualified to even serve as a barista without her G.E.D..... wake county needs to WAKE up!
carrie | Raleigh, NC