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I have an opportunity to change jobs and move to the Chapel Hill, NC area.
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All,
I have an opportunity to change jobs and move to the Chapel Hill, NC area. This would me a move of the entire family. Are there any members in the area and what can you tell me, pros and cons?
Thanks in advance.
Great area. I live over in Cary. Best move we made.
Educated people in triangle area as there engineering, tech, medicine employers. There is great mix of cultures as well and it continues to grow. I have been to Durham and Raleigh periodically. Chapel Hill - I have heard great things. Maybe a local can answer more. Plus VIR is 70min away.
Where are you moving from?
Moving out of the SF Bay Area to the Austin, Texas region was the best financial move I've made, as well as overall quality of life. If you are moving out of a "rat race" lifestyle, the Raleigh-Durham area seems to be a pretty great place to achieve a better work-life balance.
In the nutshell, the south is one of the best places on the planet to own a Porsche with its warmer climate. Many more months out of the year to enjoy these cars. NC a blessing or curse? Definitely a blessing. Can you say "Tail of the Dragon"?... Great Smoky Mountains? You're right next door to some of the best driving roads in America. And, plenty of owners around the south to hook up with on drives if you like... heck, Porsche NA headquarters are just down the road in Atlanta. People in the south are easy to get along with... for southerners it's "live and let live". Great hospitality. Sweat Tea BBQ... Oh Yea!!! I'm hungry now... Thanks alot!
However, if you're ever canoeing and hear banjo music.. paddle faster!
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We're thinking about doing the same thing. Been the the SF Bay Area for 20 years in the tech industry. bplein, If you don't mind, I have some Austin, TX questions for you? (Sorry, don't want to hijack this thread so, PM's will work.)
I was born in SF, California raised, and raised my girls there through middle school and high school. I moved them the summer prior to 9th and 12th grades, and so it was a big deal for us too.
And everyone in the family is unanimous about how good it was for us.
Do it! 35 years ago my new bride and I moved from upstate NY to Raleigh, without jobs or knowing a soul. Hardest thing I'd ever done, but after 3 months we knew we'd done the right thing! After 6 years we moved to SC to start a business, but we were sorry to leave Raleigh. The triangle area continues to boom, with great quality of life. I love SC, but wouldn't dissuade anyone from NC either. Even if you move there, and the job isn't working out, there's tons of other opportunities.
Check out San Antonio also, we have a LOT of tech here also, and WAY better roads! Austin traffic is a nightmare! I live about halfway between the two cities, so I can work in either place.
Yeah, definitely check out San Antonio. Austin traffic is bad but in a very confined space. San Antonio is spread out, many people who work in San Antonio never have to go into downtown, as many of the businesses have moved into business parks way outside downtown. I covered Austin/San Antonio (well, actually Waco to The Valley for a while!) at my prior employer. So I spent a lot of windshield time between Austin, San Antonio, and Houston plus some other smaller towns in the region.
That said, I've spent a LOT of time stuck on 1604 or 410 at the end of the business day. In fact, my favorite way to get home from a day with customers in San Antonio is to drive up 281 to Marble Falls then east on 1431, as I live north of Austin. Avoiding 410, 1604, 35, and downtown Austin traffic.
Didn't think about San Antonio before. I actually have family there. The thing that is holding me back right now is we have been in CA for 20+ years and it would be hard to give up the weather, ocean, mountains, etc here. Lots to think about.
Southern Man
You had some good insight in to the future.
Upstate New York has bleed
millions
of people who have left for many reasons, mostly the lack of gameful employment. Not to mention the dreadful weather.
Our MSA was ranked 7th in the nation for quality of life in 1975, in 2015 it is 349 out of 350, number 350 is also in Upstate New York
To address the required Porsche content, does anyone have a recommendation for a good independent shop in the Chapel Hill/Durham area? Also is anyone familiar with the local PCA region?
Weather in Chapel Hill is nice enough to drive about 80% of the year, depending on what your preferred driving conditions are. I take mine out on sunny days only, but all in all you can pretty much drive year round if you want.
NC is a beautiful state. Moved there from MI and lived in Raleigh for the better part of 6 years before transferring back to OH. Forgot how miserable winter was and we had an internal posting for SC, dropped everything and moved back after a year in the north. Tons to do around the triangle, beach is only 2.5hr away, mountains are about the same. "Winter" is fun because if there is a threat of potential snow everything will shut down days prior. It's a different type of living compared to the north, but in a good way. Drivers in the south however...., that's a whole separate story.
Can't speak on behalf of PCA or indy shops, however.
Lots of relocated northerners in the area. I was in Raleigh and the area 1-2x a month for most of the last 10 years. Several ex-co-workers relocated there for weather, cost of living and job opportunity. The area seems to be in constant growth mode. Lots of tech jobs, reasonable cost of living, decent weather most of the year (depending upon what you are used to), very little snow (occasional ice storms), pollen from hell. People jokingly call CARY the Containment Area for Relocated Yankees, if that tells you anything...
Lots of beautiful countryside if you go even a little bit outside the urban areas. Ocean a few hours away. Opportunities to get out abound: hiking, fishing, hunting, motorcycling, decent driving roads.
One thing that would concern me is the occasional storms (hurricanes). They do get that far inland at times.
I have two daughters, one in Grad School at UNC Wilmington and the other is a Junior in High School. Both love the 996, with the eldest having autocrossed with me. (Required 996 content)
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