Yessir. I'm from a redneck town in the hills of Virginia. A lot of my friends stayed behind, and are completely content with their "lives". They drop 400 dollars a night on nasty inbred strippers in West Virginia. LOCATION is so important. I've lived all over the country, and the big cities of the south are my favorite places. NC, SC and Georgia are great. Miss. and Alabama, not so much thanks to the obesity epidemic.
Raleigh is changing quite a bit thanks to the yankee influx, but you will find that the southerners and Yankees don't mix all that well. You still need game here, of course, but the talent pool that is available makes that a pleasant prospect.
Tennessee is nice in places.... Nashville is full of some honeys...I've been inclined towards southern belle's anyways, after having to bang all those nasty "jersey shore" types in college.
Sirfratsalot, if you do decide to move here send me a pm. I can give you some pointers on the job market. It's tricky here, but there's a way in if done correctly. So many people want to live here, and because of all the college grads, the job market is that much more competitive.
On another note, it's true what everyone says about dancing groups of girls. Big fat waste of time. It's why I've started taking salsa lessons. Very few guys in my area salsa, and lots of girls go out and there's not enough dance partners to go around. I avoid retarded top 40 nights at the clubs like the plague. Different genres of dance open doors!
SirFratserlot said:
You are right. I live just across the mountains in Tennessee and it is absolute hell here except Davidson County. I've been to Charlotte and Raleigh and these places were like a dream come true to me. I didn't know places like these could ever exist. It's just hard to believe that people can change so much in a 4 hour drive. I'm just scared by the time I am financially independent, these places will have been swallowed by the Western tide.