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To be completely honest, I never actualy moved to Raleigh but I sure love the area.
Our youngest son moved to Raleigh five years ago to accept a position with IBM. Numerous yearly visits from Michigan to Raleigh convinced me this is a great area. I was able to secure two job offers from Raleigh employers during the winter of 2007/08, and we found a house that my wife really loved, but risk aversion and other factors caused me to decline both offers. Six months later the economy tanked, 6 months after that both employers started shedding jobs, so maybe I made the right decision in hind-sight.
Our oldest son moved to DC, only 4 hours from Raleigh, the same week in January 2009 the youngest got laid-off by Big Blue. Not being able to find another job, the youngest is relocating to Cambridge MA where he has been accepted into Harvard's post baccalaureate pre-med program.
So, the last weekend of August will be our final visit to Raleigh as we help him move North. Very sad in a way, even the excitement of having a Harvard scholar in the family can't erase it.
Raleigh is a great city, the Raleigh city-data forum is a great site! The DC forum is geared too much to tourists and the Michigan forum is horribly dreary.
MI-Roger, best of luck to you and your family! I enjoyed reading your City-Data post.
Due to an assignment change in work I to will be leaving the area for a year possibly permanently. After living here 5 years it will be tough but its back to upstate NY so its really like going home again! Maybe one day we will moveback.....who knows!
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