Totally Freaked About Moving to Raleigh! (Charlotte, Garner: credit, work, hospital)

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by saturnfan

I don't like downtown either. Hate the one-way streets.

They are fine when you don't have everything blocked off, diverted etc. Downtown Raleigh is like downtown Houston, but on 1/8th of a scale.

Put in mass transit, ride that downtown. I love one-way streets as a pedestrian. Your car isolates you from everyone else and discourages human interaction anyway.

There is one Irish pub in downtown, somewhere around the BB&T tower if I remember right but I can't think of the name, that I always said I'd come back and check out. But the traffic and the construction of course kept me away. I will admit to have picked a bad 13 months to stay around and gauge the level of nightlife, so like anything else you read here, take it with a grain of salt.

I do enjoy being a reasonable day trip from Austin again, and having a musician buddy who has a place for me to crash over there.

[Desdemona123]

Originally Posted by saturnfan

I don't like downtown either. Hate the one-way streets.

I hated them at first as well, but had to get used to them.

Now, I don't even notice them and I do see that they make the traffic flow better. It would be worse if they were all two-way streets with folks trying to make left hand turns all over the place instead of just using the blocks like big traffic circles.

[suncat]

Speaking of bars, does Raleigh have any tiki bars?

[carolinadreamin']

Most of the clubs in Raleigh seem to be country-oriented.

I only know of one(Longbranch) out of all the clubs in Raleigh. Seems your
confusing Houston with Raleigh. Hopefully you like the countrywestern scene
since your living in the capital for it. I couldn't think of any city in America
that has more countrywestern bars than Houston. Please don't compare Raleigh to Houston, it is an insult to Raleigh.

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[saturnfan]

What I hate about the one ways is the real danger of going the wrong way on one when leaving a parking lot. Signs are sparse so you can easily exit a driveway unaware that you are now on a one way street.

[findingmesomeday]

What happened to the OP? She decide to stay in Texas?

[jfre81]

Don't know - hope she'll manage to enjoy herself but it's indeed a departure from what she's used to.

One more thing, then I suppose this whole thing can die - she either goes to NCSU or she doesn't....a PM exchange with VeeEight confirmed for me that this is indeed not simply an isolated bad experience, so this has to be said here - the level of ignorance in North Carolina about Texas and what's there and who's there is downright nauseating.

While in NC, I was asked by one of my NC native in-laws - rather condescendingly in fact - if I grew up on a farm with a dirt road. This was from someone who claimed to be very "traveled" and "sophisticated" and to have "seen the world." I frequently got asked if I had ever seen trees before I came to NC, or what's it like living in the desert.

I am closer to Mobile, Alabama than I am to any desert, and the Piedmont in NC actually looks quite similar to much of Central Texas (especially just east of the Hill Country, including parts around Austin). Not all of Texas looks like the backdrop of a John Wayne movie. The Houston metropolitan area, on its own, is maybe one million short of the entire state of North Carolina. Dallas/Fort Worth has slightly more. If you meet someone from Texas, they likely came from a bigger city than Raleigh or any of the other Triangle communities. The good ol' boys on the cattle ranch that people on the East Coast often associate with Texas don't make it out that way very much.

Just FYI if anyone encounters any more Texans over there....

But yeah....there's a "Texas Steakhouse" in Garner and a "Lone Star Steakhouse" in Clayton, so I guess people figure we know how to cook steak.

[jeannie216]

Originally Posted by jfre81

While in NC, I was asked by one of my NC native in-laws - rather condescendingly in fact - if I grew up on a farm with a dirt road. This was from someone who claimed to be very "traveled" and "sophisticated" and to have "seen the world." I frequently got asked if I had ever seen trees before I came to NC, or what's it like living in the desert.

Doesn't seem to be any more offensive than the OP's view on Raleigh or VeeEight's personal views on the triangle...and from what I can gather, that is how this whole thing got started in the first place. Maybe if people could learn how to be expressive and state opinions without being insulting, then there would have been a lot less people having to defend there homestead....Texas or NC.

[jello212]

hyperbole much? Houston and Dallas are far larger than anything in NC, but they do not have the entire population of NC inside their borders. NC has a shade under 9 million people. The Dallas area has about 5 million people while Houston has about 4 million people.

I'm sorry you and V8 ran into a few ignorant people/posters but you both are painting the population of NC with a pretty broad brush. The majority of people here aren't ignorant red-necks with single digit teeth.

Personally, I've been to Houston, Dallas, Tyler, and Austin. I liked Austin, but didn't think it was the end all, be all. Of the four, I preferred Dallas. Honestly, I didn't care for Houston that much. And before anyone gets difensive, it was only because it was entirely too spread out.

I have had the good fortune to have travelled all over the country - both large and small cities. In each of the places, I contemplated what it would be like to live there. And while I like almost all of the places I've been, Raleigh is the perfect place for me. I'm not naive enough or arrogant enough to think that it's perfect for everyone.

Just because Raleigh isn't perfect for you or for V8, V8's post came across like she didn't want to like it before she ever got here. And that's a shame. While it may not have been perfect for her - or even close to it, I'm sure there are plenty of things she would enjoy if she would have given it a chance.

[jfre81]

The Houston metropolitan area

NOT the city itself.

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