Totally Freaked About Moving to Raleigh! (Cary: real estate, home, agent)

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by RLamothe

I love it! You really sum up NC very well. If you are a transplant here as I am then you well know its YOUR CHOISE to move here! Nobody forced you too! And hopefully you love it here as much as I do! People will come and go and say awful things about the Triangle, but for those of us who love it here and appreciate all it is, then good for us! We are going to enjoy life and be happy with what we have. You can't go through life always wanting something better, you will never ever be satisfied.

I can say I agree with everything Caliboy said.

You have to always want something better. If you don't ever want anything better than what you have, why would you make a such a move and a change in your life in the first place? If you don't want anything better you should be just content to stay where you are and take what life throws at you wherever you are.

[CaliBoy]

Originally Posted by jfre81

You have to always want something better. If you don't ever want anything better than what you have, why would you make a such a move and a change in your life in the first place? If you don't want anything better you should be just content to stay where you are and take what life throws at you wherever you are.

As Thomas Alva Edison put it, "We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present." Although I would not necessarily say that wanting to always desire something better than what one has in the present is a trait required of all mankind, being content with your choice and present state of situation is a wonderful feeling too. And one that brings about great peace.

However, this is true that anyone looking in other states for something is usually trying to find that something better. It's not always the case that a better something is found, but an affirmation that where they exist today is the best they have already found.

Life is quite an adventure.

[jfre81]

Shangri-La is not a place but a state of mind.

[CaliBoy]

Originally Posted by jfre81

Shangri-La is not a place but a state of mind.

So true!!!

[flbruceCarl]

Wow Brenda .
Maybe I should rethink my future move to the triangle area. We now live in the Fort Lauderdale area where housing is way over the top already and found prices in NC affordable; not really willing to trade trendiness for sleepy town live yet, no matter how liberal Carrboro or Chapell hill might be, I think paying a visit to Austin is in order.... I'll miss the ocean though :-)

[carolinadreamin']

Wow Brenda .
Maybe I should rethink my future move to the triangle area. We now live in the Fort Lauderdale area where housing is way over the top already and found prices in NC affordable; not really willing to trade trendiness for sleepy town live yet, no matter how liberal Carrboro or Chapell hill might be, I think paying a visit to Austin is in order.... I'll miss the ocean though :-)

I wouldn't put to much stock in Brenda's comments, a quick drive thru in an area you've already written off before you get there isn't very telling. Raleigh
actually rates out quite well even when comparing it to "her utopia" of Austin
Texas.

How cities rank for College Grads with at least a Bachelors degree:

America's smartest cities - Aug. 31, 2006

Median Household Incomes:

Richest and Poorest Cities in America - DCJobSource.com

10 Richest Cities:
The 10 richest cities in the US

Raleigh ranks high:
Raleigh Ranks Right On Top

[jfre81]

Austin's rate of college graduates is lower because more of them flunked out while drinking massive amounts of booze and independently studying hydroponic horticulture for a certain non-credit, off-campus course not sanctioned by the area's institutions of higher learning or the DEA. Their one-time dreams of bliss in the white-collar rat race shattered, those people become the starving musicians who walk to their day jobs and their gig at night, and these people aren't paid much either. So yeah, bring down Austin's per-capita income a bit.

[autumngal]

Originally Posted by jfre81

Don't read threads about people moving from Texas and you will never have to hear about Texas. This thread is about Texas. To pull a quote from earlier, "last I checked, Austin was in Texas."

Or better yet, take your computer, throw it out your window and you will never have to be "forced" to read something you don't want to read.

Actually, no this thread originality is about the OP stating she was disappointed with the area around here in NC that they visited. It just so happens; she would be relocating from Texas.


Here is the link if you would like to refresh with reading the OP again,
Totally Freaked About Moving to Raleigh!

it's easy in long threads to get side tracked.

[jfre81]

Then wouldn't such a thread need some input from someone who is actually familar with Austin, or Texas, since many statements made here show ignorance about both. But you don't want a balancing view.

If anything, if I was an outsider familiar with neither Texas or North Carolina, the responses from the home crowd on this thread are more likely to repel me from the Triangle before anything the OP posted.

You have to be a moron to decide whether or not to make a life-changing decision, like moving across the country to an unfamiliar place, based on a single Internet posting.

[carolinadreamin']

Austin's rate of college graduates is lower because more of them flunked out while drinking massive amounts of booze and independently studying hydroponic horticulture for a certain non-credit, off-campus course not sanctioned by the area's institutions of higher learning or the DEA. Their one-time dreams of bliss in the white-collar rat race shattered, those people become the starving musicians who walk to their day jobs and their gig at night, and these people aren't paid much either. So yeah, bring down Austin's per-capita income a bit.

You can't be serious, that's the most lame excuse I've ever read. What's your excuse for Houston?...I noticed they didn't even make the list.