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I heard someone mention it and I know all of you don't think that, but do you think we are backwards in Raleigh compared to big cities like NYC? I don't mind being called a hick since I was born here. I take it all in good fun. And it's better than being a yankee city slicker from up north lol
I'm funning ya about the yankee comment but I have been told we do things to slowly compared to big cities. I don't care as long as people don't try to change our ways it's fine. Don't want any northerners running for office to make laws to make us like their home state, or maybe we do because the politicians now sure do go overboard at times lol
Well, we moved here from 18 miles outside midtown Manhattan and I wouldn't say I've ever thought or used the word "hick" or "backward" for this area. More rural areas, maybe. But that would have been true in certain parts of NY state too.
NYC moves faster, has more people and is lit up brighter at 1 a.m. than Raleigh is at 8 p.m., but that's NYC - not many other places like that (for better or for worse). Doesn't make this area "Hicksville" (ha ha there's a town on LI called Hicksville, never heard the end of that from my rural upstate friends because that's where my mail came from!)
Never thought of the people in the area as hicks. Lived on LI for 18 years and all around NY for another 11. Move to South Carolina after college. Now THAT was a bit of a culture shock.
Did anyone think we were rural before they put in Highway 40? I don't know how long they had been building it, but in the early 70 to mid 70's when I was a teen I would walk over to watch them build the overpass bridge for 40 where it crosses over 401 south.
Back then we didn't seem very diverse or cosmopolitan. In the Cameron Village area it still doesn't kinda sorta to me. Raleigh seems to have gotten too big in some parts. But out by RTP or even going past NC State doesn't feel like Raleigh to me. I guess its because I never really went to or lived in those areas. Except for trips to the beach once each summer we never went further than the fair grounds when the fair was there. So my living radius all my life has been from Garner to Cameron Village. The rest is out of Raleigh to me lol
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