Four seasons. Winters aren’t too harsh.

Seems like a great state to raise a family up in.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5541485&forum_id=2...id.#47751178)

There were lots of shady issues going on in an otherwise highly bucolic setting.

For one thing, everything was far away and there was really nothing to do except find ways to get into trouble.

It’s better to raise your kids in a neighborhood and have them do sports than out in the country and have them all hang out in the basement.

I myself, we moved away so I went to another high school, in a different state, but it was a big suburban hs. One of the largest in the United States.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5541485&forum_id=2...id.#47751521)

And explanation! We assume anything you post is a lie since that incident

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5541485&forum_id=2...id.#47751535)

I don’t care if you don’t believe me, I will keep poasting my stories about reading the Hardy Boys series on the long bus ride down Creedmoor, and then eventually Glenwood Ave to get to school each morning. I’ll poast about going to the Winn Dixie at the corner of Strickland and Creedmoor because “Food Lion gave you food poisoning” and “Harris Teeter is too bourgeois” as my mother used to say. These were my first experiences with a grocer.

I also spent a long time in the NCSU area, in the neighborhood around the Rose Garden, Hillsborough Street, Pullen Park, went to day camp at the Hillsborough YMCA many summers, it’s now gone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5541485&forum_id=2...id.#47751608)

https://www.reddit.com/r/raleigh/comments/slk58a/comment/hvraey5

Keep in mind a lot of places outside of Raleigh are connected to Raleigh by 2 lane country roads that were built 70 years ago. Those towns are now 100x the population and are all trying to get to the same place.

To get a sense of what it is like head down 10-10 at around 5 pm to see what a 10 mile parking lot looks like. Or holly springs road at the same time. Ignore the “it’s not as bad as dc or ny crowd”. Imo it’s worse. I’ve lived in northern va and had to commute to dc daily. DC is nowhere as bad as trying to move down a road, with stop lights, stop signs and about 50k people all trying to funnel their way to one highway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5541485&forum_id=2...id.#47751726)

The bigger negative IMHO is that housing costs in the suburbs/exurbs are almost as bad as they are in the city. It used to be that people tolerated horrible commutes because they could get a huge house on a large lot for cheap. But these days places like Fuquay or Pittsboro are just as expensive as Cary or Chapel Hill.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5541485&forum_id=2...id.#47752902)