Totally Freaked About Moving to Raleigh! (Chapel Hill, Princeton: relocating, job, health)

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by carolinadreamin'

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.

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You learned a new word today.

[jeannie216]

I think it is time to bury this thread and move on to bigger and better things......lifes too short!

[autumngal]

Originally Posted by 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.

Then wouldn't the OP have typed she needs a comparison of both areas??
Then your replies would have certaintly been justified with the comparisons
you wanted to make. Absolutely.
She was asking for more insight into this area known as NC as she was disappointed by what she found.

Come on, she is not basing it on a single internet posting, she visited and was asking for more input on the Triangle area after that particular visit. You know it, I know it.....and it magically turned into Austin vs the Triangle area....

[jfre81]

to be clear....this thread was four or five pages long before I ever got to it - it's older than my city-data account and was a "vs." thread even before then.

I actually find the "vs." threads rather interesting as long as people don't get fanatical and defensive all the time. They are actually quite informative IMO, even to people who are just reading with a passing interest in getting a feel for another part of the country without actually visiting, as compared to a place you're familiar with.

But here, everything's either an attack or a defense. They're even jumping on the real estate agent in the Cary thread because he accidentally struck a nerve. You make a point people don't like and you get treated like you're in Jerusalem and you just ordered pork chops. This is not the way to convey the image of open-mindedness and inclusiveness that everyone tries to sell here.

[jeannie216]

The next person that adds to this thread, I will personally come over and beat them with a wet noodle! The horse is dead already...move on!

[autumngal]

Originally Posted by jeannie216

The next person that adds to this thread, I will personally come over and beat them with a wet noodle! The horse is dead already...move on!

ok, am outta here,

[jeannie216]

Originally Posted by autumngal

ok, am outta here,

Only thing is... that looks a lot harder than a wet noodle! Ouch!

[saturnfan]

This has been a very interesting thread and I've enjoyed it.

[jfre81]

Why I hate Austin.

Since Austin gets referred to on this thread as a "utopia" I figured I'd share this...look at the responses on that thread and then look at the ones here. Do you notice a difference?

People here have got to learn how to shrug off the negativity sometimes and not take it so seriously. The more people come in and take a look, there will be more people coming in not liking what they see. And it's perfectly OK. The strained infrastructure of the Triangle is better allocated to the growth among people who want to live there.

[Blondeone]

It was ranked the best city in the country to live in this year, as stated on the Today show.....as is true of all things in life...some of us like places that others dont care for....and its a good thing...