raleigh north carolina is an absolutely amazing city but not everything is rainbows and lollipops
and unicorns on today's video we're going to tell you about some reasons why you
may not want to move to raleigh north carolina hi this is chris morton real estate broker with
exp realty in raleigh north carolina today's video we're going to talk about
the eight reasons why raleigh north carolina might not be the best place for you
for you to move to now we did a similar video about this topic in the past which was reasons
you might not want to move to north carolina on today's video we're going to get really specific
on why you might not want to move specifically to raleigh and yes this video is made in your
best interest to hopefully give you an idea if it's going to work out right for you or not
some people got a little verklempt a little triggered a little angry a little insane
about our last video because they thought we were insulting them saying because you were from say
philadelphia new york newark i.e the north that we were saying we didn't want you to come here
that's not what we were saying so please take this information with a grain of salt
if this offends you that's probably the first clue that raleigh might not be a good place
for you so let's get started with the list reason number one not to move to raleigh north carolina
if you're not a nice person if people don't say you really are a nice person then you're
probably not a nice person if you use the middle finger as the main primary way to greet people
then you're probably not a nice person and therefore we probably
don't really want you to move here raleigh has a reputation for being really really nice
friendly place if you come from an part of the country where you've got to be mean and aggressive
and fight for your right to survive and give your opinion and yada yada that's probably not going to
fit in very well here now the thing about raleigh is and i get yelled about this all the time
southerners don't fight back we don't argue back with you when you're a jerk that doesn't mean we
like it we just grumble about you behind your back if you want to make friends be nice if you don't
want to make friends then stay the way you are so our advice to you is leave the aggressive culture
behind and embrace the nice and again i must emphasize boldface underline we are not saying
because you're not from the south that you're not a nice person we're just saying if you were not a
nice person where you're from you're probably not going to be a nice person here and we don't need
that that's all i'm saying number two reason raleigh might not be the best place for you
is if you're constantly complaining about how raleigh isn't like the place you're from
when you get to raleigh i get it raleigh is not infested with amazing bagel shops like
you're going to find in new york city or deep dish chicago pizza like you find in chicago or
i don't know whatever they eat in los angeles we don't have all of that here everywhere we
understand that we have differences from where you're from and you need to understand that too
adapt to where you are now embrace the change and realize that you're not going to get amazing
collard greens in philadelphia you're not going to get amazing pit cooked southern barbecue in
los angeles we have unique delicacies here that you're not going to find there and vice versa
just understand you're gonna have to embrace the difference stop complaining about where you're
from and it's not the same as here know that you can always go back for a visit and have your nice
fun wonderful and nice lifestyle here number three thing to be aware of is traffic is probably going
to be worse here than you would expect raleigh is a very very rapidly growing city and unfortunately
traffic is bad and getting worse and our road system was not designed for the amount of influx
of people coming in the area that we have now so although it's not anywhere near like you're going
to see in new york city or los angeles or other big cities know that it's not going to be all
wine and roses getting to work or leaving work morning afternoon rush hour et cetera it's getting
bad we're hoping that roads are going to eventually improve but be prepared for that
if you're not prepared to sit in traffic raleigh is probably not the city for you sorry that is not
to say that raleigh is like this log jam traffic jam disaster like you would imagine the three
hour waits on the freeway in the 405 b a highway in los angeles it's not like that at all but we
do have our traffic jams know that you're gonna have to be mentally prepared to sit in traffic
sometimes of the day doesn't mean all the time doesn't mean it's going to happen every day but
just understand it could happen the number four thing you need to be prepared about is housing is
going to cost you more than you expect although we've done this topic a lot and we've discussed
this a lot there's still people who don't believe us they think they can move to raleigh and the
surrounding areas and buy a royal castle for 150 000 sorry it's not going to happen you're not
going to get an acre of land in downtown raleigh for 250 000 it's not going to happen understand
that raleigh is fast growing the population is moving in faster than the builders can build and
again we as we've said in many other videos we're having a shortage of resale homes so
that's driving costs up be prepared that you're not going to get the deal that you think you're
going to get and that prices are getting to be fairly comparable to a lot of the other big cities
in the united states even though raleigh is still a medium-sized city also rents are comparably
pretty high when you compare to the median income in the area and what you would expect
there is again a increasing population housing is not keeping up so therefore a lot of people
are having to rent which is driving up rental cost so be prepared you're not going to get the
amazing studio apartment for 300 a month that's probably not existing and if it does exist you
probably don't want to live there because you probably got 10 or 20 000 of your closest friends
little tiny buggies they're gonna live with i'm joking anyway know that rentals are expensive here
be prepared for it sorry the number five thing you need to know about raleigh if you're not prepared
for growth this is probably not where you want to be if you're looking for small town america
small city raleigh is probably not going to be the place you want to be we are totally
different city than we were 10 years ago and we will most likely and most certainly be a
completely different city in 10 or 20 years from now simply based on all the population coming in
understand that it happens and if you are not prepared for growth if you're not prepared
for high rises and more and more people being here raleigh's probably not right for you the number
six reason you may not want to move to raleigh north carolina is if you're not willing to explore
the local food scene now we've touched it about on this a little bit earlier in this video but please
know raleigh is a medium-sized city we don't have the tremendous abundance of pizzerias and
bagel shops and sushi restaurants et cetera et cetera that you may have in your big city where
you're from but that doesn't mean we don't have those things and that we don't have a really cool
thriving food scene in fact raleigh durham and the surrounding areas of the triangle
has been recognized recently for having one of the hottest food scenes in the united
states so when you come here be prepared you're gonna maybe have to go out and explore around
to find your ideal say bagel shop but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist
beyond that understand there's different kinds of foods here culinary delights that are specific to
our culture in our area that you may not have there like the collard greens and the barbecue
we talked about earlier understand that that's here and that may be something you want to try
and then finally the good news is this as we get more and more people come in we're getting
more and more restauranteurs moving here and opening their shops for example one of our
favorite restaurants is called prime barbecue in knightdale north carolina it's about 15-20 minutes
outside of raleigh and they have some of the very best texas barbecue you could ever imagine
including the best brisket i think in my opinion in the triangle and that's something that you
wouldn't know about if you didn't go out and explore and keep your ear to the ground and find
out about what's going on in the food scene just know that we have a really cool food scene here
maybe different where you're from but you got to be prepared to be flexible and modify your tastes
and what your thoughts are on what's good food or what you must must have the number seven thing
you need to know about raleigh north carolina and it may cause you not to move here is not
everybody has the same political views that you have if you're from san francisco or oklahoma city
or wherever doesn't necessarily mean that people coming that live here are going to have the same
views you have where you're from in fact raleigh is a very politically diverse area with all kinds
of different views typically people keep their politics to themselves because we're so mixed
and you never know who you're going to talk to and never know who you're talking with so rather than
getting in an argument most people by and large just keep it to themselves in fact we know of many
many people who are friends with people who have a different political view they don't ever talk
about politics that's how they're able to stay friends so that's our advice to you if you cannot
keep your mouth shut about your politics you're probably not going to fit in and it probably might
not be the best place for you and the number eight reason you may not want to move to raleigh north
carolina is if you have a snake phobia be aware raleigh has venomous snakes the primary venomous
snake we have here however is the copperhead the good news about copperhead is they are one of the
least venomous snakes in the united states i know this is a big deal for a lot of people so i want
to go into detail on this topic while i know of a lot of people who've seen many many more
snakes than i have and i don't want to downplay it please know i've only seen two snakes in the
30 plus years i've lived in raleigh one was on the greenway this past summer and the other one
i don't remember when i think it was on a running trail but it's been many many years ago so what
you need to know about them is they tend to live in wooded places and hang out in wooded places
and especially around bodies of water so if you live near a lake just be prepared that you may
see a copperhead and sometimes they can be at places you wouldn't expect them to be at like
in a parking lot so just know that you need to be vigilant and also know that dogs are probably
going to come into more contact with these snakes than you will and stand a greater risk of getting
bitten the good news is most dogs can handle a snake bite a copperhead bite better than you can
generally they just need benadryl and they're going to be fine but please know that i am not a
veterinarian and so you want to consult with your vet should your dog get bitten so if these things
have offended you raleigh probably isn't the right place for you know that you need to move here
kind of modulate your behavior your attitudes your way of living from wherever you're from
and let's all just get along and hold hands and sing kumbaya that's my philosophy hope you've
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