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Raleigh, NC
No one is from Raleigh! -
9/4/2014Been here since 1991. I am in the HVAC trade. I have been fortunate enough to visit all the states but Alaska. Three other continents and was born in Louisiana. So let's talk about Raleigh, Cary, Chapel hill and Durham. You will hear a lot negative about the area. The fact of the matter is I don't meet anyone from here. Everyone tends to be from north eastern states. There has been a huge amount of southern migration. Along with that is attitudes and mind sets follow. So the area is basically a melting lot of northerners. Unfortunately the southerners get a bad name cause god forbid any northerner bad mouth another northerner. Unless they are talking about how bad it was where the come from.
So yes Raleigh is not the best place to move to. Taxes are going up because they are accepted because they are way lower than where the majority came from. We just got a toll road of our own. Traffic sux during rush hour cause no one knows any other way home but the one the learned the first week they moved here. Had the horn blown at me today because as I sat third car back at a light to turn right. The truck pulling a boat wouldn't pull out in traffic. The tags on the truck pulling the boat were from NC. But the sticker in his back glass said he loved NY. So I'm assuming the guy blowing his horn was from Raleigh. Would have to work that way.
All I'm saying here, to clarify for everyone born north of Arkansas, is if you look for something to complain about you will find it.
I get to see that we all want the same things live be happy raise our kids.
I've learned that if you open the door and your accent indicates you have moved south. I get on the job at hand and fix your ac. Then we talk about the weather, your kids, how life is going.
If you have southern drawl we talk about the weather, your kids how work is going and your life then I get to work and fix your ac.
I find that rather funny.
One group wants to get to know you before you work on their house and the other wants you to work on their house then they want to get to know you.
But both groups ask the same things, have same hopes fears and desires.
Well thats enough from me.
All in all
Raleigh is horribly great.
Find what you want here.
But it's still growing so you can make a living.
You can take you kids to see the symphony Friday night, a pig pickin Saturday afternoon
And drive 30 minutes and not understand what the locals are saying but they will let you help them weed their garden and and teach your daughters how to shoot a gun in case one of the sexual predators follows them home.