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I think most people around here are pretty friendly. A good example is this forum - people are friendly and helpful and even the spirited debates are usually somewhat civil. Jump on over to the Charlotte board and you will see lots of bullying, sniping, flaming, etc. Same goes for the Long Island board.
Depends on what you mean by "Raleigh" and where you're from and what YOU are like and what YOU expect! Where I live it seems like no one is actually FROM here (some of us are from up north, some from nearby states/towns, some from other southern places, etc. It's NOT any one place) and it's very friendly. We didn't move "ITB" (inside the 440 beltline) because we had heard that natives don't cotton too much to all the annoying newcomers who are clogging up their fine highways; being a native to Richmond, VA, and having been annoyed with all the damn yankees who were moving there (she said, tongue in cheek), I get it and wasn't especially in the mood for annoying any locals.
In general, it feels like a friendly southern city to me (having lived in 5-6 of them) and I like it very much. There's a progressive vibe and an artsy vibe to the place, too. Just don't expect NYC *or* a rural feel and you'll be just fine
I am wondering how friendly the people in Raleigh are. Also, is the culture reserved or fast-paced? Thanks.
on a scale of 1 - 10 with 1 being Extremely Unfriendly and 1o being so friendly they are in your face, 4 out of 5 seekers of friends say it is a 7.5 on the friendliness scale.
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Are there different moderators for those areas? That may explain it.
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Originally Posted by SaucyAussie
I think most people around here are pretty friendly. A good example is this forum - people are friendly and helpful and even the spirited debates are usually somewhat civil. Jump on over to the Charlotte board and you will see lots of bullying, sniping, flaming, etc. Same goes for the Long Island board.
As for the comments about no Southerners...guess I'm lucky cuz I live with one! Having said that, I know quite a few. I do think, overall, that this area is one of the more friendly areas. Of course, I have lived here for a very long time but I have visited many places within the US and there are quite a few states that I've visited that you couldn't pay me to live in!!!
Raleigh itself is somewhat fast-paced, being a city with rampant growth (= traffic jams, etc. when you increase the population by 4% a year but don't have time to build new roads, that tends to happen). There are still plenty of natives and Southerners here with "Southern charm" as well as transplants who are nice, but the high number of folks moving from Northeastern urban areas has brought more of a "fast-paced" vibe about a lot of things (impatience in traffic, etc) more associated with that region than with the South. Most people who move here from the North specifically mention "how nice the people are" compared to what they're used to, so there's that data point(s). And in general, the longer someone lives here, the more acclimated they become to the "more laid-back vibe". But there is no mistaking that Raleigh is an many ways no longer a "Small Southern City" but becoming more like Atlanta, in ways both good and bad (both being subjective, of course).
If you're coming from a big urban area, you may find it impossibly slow-paced--store clerks and even other customers often stop and stirke up conversations, people wave and speak to strangers on the streets, by-the-book Etiquette is more important here (which can include a lot of passive-aggressiveness by Etiquette's very nature...a lot of Northerners prefer to be around people who "say what they think" instead of being 'diplomatic' and talking around an unpleasant issue, for example).
OTOH, if you're coming from a rural area, they think our traffic is atrocious, everybody is in a hurry, nobody knows anybody because half of them moved from somewhere and have no roots in the area, etc. So a lot of it is "is it fast-paced/polite/laid-back compared to where?"
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