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Third Interview went well, looks like Raleigh will be my new home.

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Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: aircooled
Let me know if they need any more help 🙂
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What do you do now, and what experience do you have with firewalls and ids?
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I'm just a general network guy. I admin a checkpoint firewall but our ids is outsourced...
 
Congrats!

Hey did your 'old job' have ANY idea you were looking for a new job? So will the months notice be out of the blue or they 'sort of knew'?

Koing
 
Originally posted by: Koing
Congrats!

Hey did your 'old job' have ANY idea you were looking for a new job? So will the months notice be out of the blue or they 'sort of knew'?

Koing
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It will be out of the blue. When it dawns on them I'm leaving, they're going to frantically pull away control of all the systems that I manage because they'll realize that nobody has that much experience with them. I want to be sure I'm hired elsewhere before that happens.
 
Originally posted by: BlueFlamme
Originally posted by: DVK916
Originally posted by: DaShen
Virgina and North Carolina weather is the best
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Maybe the best in the south, but California has the best weather in nation.
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But CA has worse natural disasters.
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I was born in Los Angeles - lived in Lakewood until I was 6 - 8 (not exactly sure when). We left right after a major earthquake.

Doesn't California also have really bad fires and mud slides?
 
I got the offer today. :Q Now comes the fun part of packing up and moving! I'm already talking to a realtor and lender and have been preapproved for a mortgage. If anybody here lives in Raleigh, Cary, Apex, or Morrisville, please PM me and suggest places to live. 😉
 
if you like to live in nice neighborhoods and pay high taxes live in cary, if you like big houses consider N. Raleigh, if you like beatiful small college town and commute everyday live in Chapel Hill.

congrds on your new job... maybe u can hook me up with a job oneday in NC 😛
 
Good luck with the move and new job. At least you have the wife to help with the move and packing. Try not to get on each other's nerves too much. Congratulations.
 
Since the job is in Oxford, you'll probably want to live in northern Durham and just commute on 85. Or alternatively you live in Raleigh and commute via 98 I think, although that drive will get long and boring fast. Have you looked at www.housingmaps.com?
 
You'll like Raleigh. I've never been there, but I spent some time in Charlotte, and that part of the country is a nice place to live. You can get a GREAT new house for aroudn $150,000, the cost of living is low, and you can still earn good $. Basically, it's a great area to live in and really build up a lot of wealth without throwing all your money into housing.
 
Live just outside of Cary or Raleigh. My brother works in Cary but lives in Apex. Fairly short drive, and houses are MUCH cheaper, and the neighborhood he lives in is quieter and more spacious than a lot of other neighborhoods.
 
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Since the job is in Oxford, you'll probably want to live in northern Durham and just commute on 85. Or alternatively you live in Raleigh and commute via 98 I think, although that drive will get long and boring fast. Have you looked at www.housingmaps.com?
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No, I didn't get that job. The job I got is in Morrisville.
 
Originally posted by: SagaLore
Originally posted by: AmigaMan
Since the job is in Oxford, you'll probably want to live in northern Durham and just commute on 85. Or alternatively you live in Raleigh and commute via 98 I think, although that drive will get long and boring fast. Have you looked at www.housingmaps.com?
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No, I didn't get that job. The job I got is in Morrisville.
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Ok, that really opens your choices up then. You could pretty much live in either Raleigh, Cary, Apex, south Durham (the best part of Durham IMO), or Chapel Hill (although the commute will be longer). Morrisville is smack dab in the middle of all that. The downside is the traffic on I-40 will usually be bad during the morning and evening commutes and during basketball games. But in any case it won't be bumper-to-bumper, stop-n-go type traffic, it's more "poke along at 30-45 in congested areas then speed up again" type traffic.

My brother lives in Cary and works in north Raleigh and his commute isn't bad, probably around 40 minutes each way.
 
I forgot what the saying was... Cary = Containment Area for Relocated Yankees?

Congrats on the job. I was born and raised in Raleigh, graduated from NCSU, but moved out west to Seattle due to the lure of living on the west coast and wanting a change in scenery. Anyways, Raleigh (and the Triangle area) is a terrific place to raise a family, has great schools, relatively low cost of living, and lots of job opportunities. Probably in a few years, after I get over the young/independent stage, I'll probably want to return to Raleigh... or sooner if I get tired of the higher cost of living here.

Places to live... if you're working in Morrisville, maybe Cary or the Brier Creek area could be convenient. To me, Cary is a bit too "suburby", but hey, it floats some people's boat. Brier Creek was one of the hotter areas that people were moving into when I left last summer, given its close proximity to I-540/airport/RTP/Morrisville. Plus, it has most of the essential stores that you need. I used to live in N. Raleigh.

My mom's a realtor there, so I might be able to dig some other neighborhoods up for ya.
 
Congratulations brother!

It's slightly humorous that your recent life situations are punctuated by ATOT threads, but I guess that just shows the level of community that we have here 🙂
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
Have fun in the south. Personally no amount of money will ever be enough to make me live there.
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It's not that bad. Many New Yorkers here. You'd feel at home 🙂

 
Originally posted by: aircooled
Originally posted by: SampSon
Have fun in the south. Personally no amount of money will ever be enough to make me live there.
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It's not that bad. Many New Yorkers here. You'd feel at home 🙂
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I spent a lot of time in Charleston, SC. There were a lot of New Yorkers, hell there was even a bar/restaurant that was owned by a guy from the same area as me. They took the place and made it look and act like a bar/restaurant from my home town. I even gravitated towards notherners when I was down there. Basically everything the transplant northerners do is to make them feel like they are back home.

I say skip that whole process and just stay up north, where everything is normal. The south is fun for short stints, but I hate living there.

 
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