Just Accepted a Job in Raleigh/Durham

• Laley23

  

  Fire away with some suggestions on where to live and where to eat if you have them. Ill be sure to check out any and all places (apartment will be where we live). Fiancé is a teacher, so if you have any recommendations on good districts near the area as well, Id appreciate the input.
  
  Thanks.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  Laley23;1582307 wrote:Fire away with some suggestions on where to live and where to eat if you have them. Ill be sure to check out any and all places (apartment will be where we live). Fiancé is a teacher, so if you have any recommendations on good districts near the area as well, Id appreciate the input.
  
  Thanks.

  Over under 2.5 years before she's in jail for blowing a student?
• Laley23

  

  Raw Dawgin' it;1582311 wrote:Over under 2.5 years before she's in jail for blowing a student?

  Odds say over, so Ill go with that.
• thavoice

  Raw Dawgin' it;1582311 wrote:Over under 2.5 years before she's in jail for blowing a student?

  I will go with the under. With Laley having a new job he probably will be putting in more hours, and she will get lonely and want to fit in at the schools.
  
  but anyways....
  
  
  Goodluck man. STay in contact with IU hoops and set us straight on here. Dont know much about NC other than the Fayetteville area.....of which isnt worth know anyways!
• se-alum

  

  Congrats! Have always said that's one of the few places I would move to. From what I hear, Cary is a very nice little town, and only like 10 minutes from the Raleigh/Durham area.
  
  Check out this website. You can request a free relocation packet.
  
  http://www.lifeincary.com/
• Pick6

  

  Congrats. What will you be doing?
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Pick6;1582335 wrote:Congrats. What will you be doing?

  OC mod.
• wildcats20

  

  My dad lives outside the city, about 20 minutes from NCSU, in a smaller city called Zebulon. It is small, but nice. I don't know if I would recommend that area for a younger couple, not sure you're exact age. You really can't go wrong, other than downtown Durham, which is a terrible area. There's also this place, you might have heard of it, called Chapel Hill. It's fantastic.
• Laley23

  

  Pick6;1582335 wrote:Congrats. What will you be doing?

  Working for a company called SportMedia Technology (SMT). They are a Computer Graphics company who acts as a 3rd party for the major networks. If you think of the first down line, score and time (scorebug), the player identifiers in a crowd (horse racing uses this a lot), Virtual Putt line on golf telecasts etc...thats all them.
  
  To start, I will be doing some cycling as they may be sending me to France for the Tour de France. But more than likely I will end up on Notre Dame or ACC football in the fall. We travel to the site the day the truck arrives for whoever is broadcasting. We set up all the technology and cameras for our stuff, and then have a tie in to the networks truck that they can take our feed whenever they want to use it. Thats the best way I can explain it without using a bunch of terms and stuff nobody will understand lol.
  
  Here is a good overview of the bigger products currently in use http://www.smt.com/products
  
  EDIT: Ideally, I will be on Thursday Night Football (SMT just finalized a contract with CBS when CBS finalized the rights to TNF) or SNF this fall, but I doubt I will get that with so few months on the job. Probably more likely I will be on those in 2015.
• Laley23

  

  wildcats20;1582339 wrote:My dad lives outside the city, about 20 minutes from NCSU, in a smaller city called Zebulon. It is small, but nice. I don't know if I would recommend that area for a younger couple, not sure you're exact age. You really can't go wrong, other than downtown Durham, which is a terrible area. There's also this place, you might have heard of it, called Chapel Hill. It's fantastic.

  Im 28 in June, fiance just turned 25 in October.
• wildcats20

  

  Laley23;1582341 wrote:Im 28 in June, fiance just turned 25 in October.

  Zebulon is a growing area. It's nice, I know nothing about the school system though. My dad has neighbors in their 30s, 40s and everything above. All the kids on his court go to or went to private schools.
• Laley23

  

  wildcats20;1582342 wrote:Zebulon is a growing area. It's nice, I know nothing about the school system though. My dad has neighbors in their 30s, 40s and everything above. All the kids on his court go to or went to private schools.

  Thanks, we will definitely check out the area.
• sportswizuhrd

  Laley23;1582307 wrote:Fire away with some suggestions on where to live and where to eat if you have them. Ill be sure to check out any and all places (apartment will be where we live). Fiancé is a teacher, so if you have any recommendations on good districts near the area as well, Id appreciate the input.
  
  Thanks.

  Congrats man. Glad to see you guys on that side getting bigger and better jobs. When's the new job start? Good luck!
• Laley23

  

  sportswizuhrd;1582350 wrote:Congrats man. Glad to see you guys on that side getting bigger and better jobs. When's the new job start? Good luck!

  Thanks, and it is nice. Sorry to be leaving you with so many new directors though...you gotta "watch" the stuff lol.
  
  It is ASAP, which will be 2 weeks from today plus some relocation time. So probably like the 10th.
• sportswizuhrd

  Laley23;1582355 wrote:Thanks, and it is nice. Sorry to be leaving you with so many new directors though...you gotta "watch" the stuff lol.
  
  It is ASAP, which will be 2 weeks from today plus some relocation time. So probably like the 10th.

  Yeah, I've noticed! Haha. It will all get better with experience...hopefully!
• Zoltan

  I lived in Durham for one year when I was 23. The area around the ball park (Durham Bulls) and a few places around Duke's campus are the only places I really went. There are parts of the city that are pretty dangerous.
  
  Chapel Hill is good times! Not much knowledge on Raleigh, although Carey is very nice.
• Sonofanump

  Belle Knox goes to school down there.
• Enforcer

  

  If You like seafood check out The Saucy Crab or McCormick & Schmick's Seafood & Steaks
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Cary
  
  Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.
• vball10set

  Congrats, cameraman, Pinciotti's losing a good guy....best of luck!!!
• arnie palmer

  

  Congrat's Laley 23 on your move to NC. I moved my family from OH to NC 2 years ago and we love it (live in Mooresville and work in Hickory). I have only been to Raliegh area a couple times since we have lived in NC to go to college basketball games, so do not have much input on housing.
  
  I do know that Wake County schools and particularly Cary schools are some of the best in the state. Cary has 3 out of top 10 and 4 out of top 20 ranked elementary schools in the state so your fiance should try to get a teaching job there. Do you and your fiance know that NC is one of the lowest paying states for teachers - like 48 out of 50 states? They have not had a raise for 3-4 years? There are a ton of charter schools starting up evey year here as well, pulling state funds from public, county schools. One of the big issues is that NC property taxes are very low in most counties (were 1/3 of my OH property taxes) and school funding not that good from that.
  
  http://www.schooldigger.com/go/NC/schoolrank.aspx
• vball10set

  *fiance'
• dlazz

  Laley23;1582340 wrote:But more than likely I will end up on Notre Dame or ACC football in the fall.

  Prayers from Franklin County
• shook_17

  

  Good luck down there, My mom moved down there three years ago loves it. Almost took a fire department job down there, but toledo is home and hard to leave.
• Classyposter58

  

  You'll be right at home, it's like Ohio South with all the Buckeyes that have moved into that area. Very nice area though, like a bigger and warmer version of C-Bus