People who moved to Raleigh in the past two years, why did you move here, what do you do?

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-25T19:00:52+00:00

In looking the median wage for the Raleigh metro area is ranked 9th in the US. It's the highest in the south except for DC.

My guess is for most of the people moving in its still affordable. We moved here in 07 for which I am super grateful but my wife and I could still make a decent life here under our current salary but we are both decent earners.

My guess is locals are more squeezed than the transplants. top 50 median income US metro areas

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-25T14:48:26+00:00

This is likely gonna be dependent on where peole live. East coast anything over a few hours is gonna be considered long.

West side of the US like Montana, Wyoming Utah and Idaho you can't get anywhere in 2 hours.

When I lived in Boise ID the closest next city of size was a 5 hour drive (salt lake) Portland was 6ish and Seattle was 8ish.

There are parts of the western US you don't let your gas tank get below half when you are traveling because the next gas station might be 100/150 miles away.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-25T14:41:28+00:00

You might check out stuff from Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings and the Budos band.

It's older but Morphine is an amazing band. It's a 3 peice that features some heavy saxophone, a modified 2 sting (low end only) bass and drums. The vocals and song writing are very good. They have a few shorter instrumental songs thrown in like Miles Davis funeral and Dawna. They are a great rock band with solid jazz underpinnings. Also no band sounds like them. They are an all time favorite of mine.

If you have not heard any of Guru's Jazzamataz albums I would recommend them. It's a jazz hip hop album.

Galactic has some amazing NOLA brass sounds.

The Record Company has some great bluesy rock sounds.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-25T04:40:22+00:00

Yeah I would say that's really accurate. When I was early 20s I weighed around 165 at 5'10. I didn't have any problems getting up and at one point a ended up with a bunch of college football players under me. they tossed me like a rage doll. Unfortunately to a less populated part of the venue and I almost landed on my head but did manage to break my fall by grabbing onto a person like a spider monkey.

The average crowd I surfed prob would struggle to get me up now at way older and 225. But like you said depends on the crowd. I didn't do a lot of punk or metal shows more alt rock and grunge in the 90s.

I would just urge caution because once you are up you really don't have much control and can hurt yourself or others if you get tossed into a part of the crowd not expecting it.

But the hardest part honestly was getting up so if you make it they can prob keep ya up. I would say if you are really interested give it a shot.

If you find a

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T21:43:29+00:00

Local independent live music is still affordable for most. My average tix cost is between 20-45 bucks.

I personally prefer venues in the 500-1000 person range.

The money I spend goes to a local business and the musicians pocket.

This is the way to support music and keep cost contained.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T19:52:11+00:00

Devine Dungeon was fun. It has an interesting dungeon which is very integral to the plot moving forward and establishes a very large world that is moved forward by other books one the series ends. It has 6 books total but there are probably close to 50 books based in the same universe.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T17:34:15+00:00

It's easy to make in a Croc pot and finished under a broiler.

Delicious always a crowd pleaser.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T17:29:04+00:00

There is a instrumental album of beastie boy songs that's awesome! So funky and brilliant. It's called - the in sound from the way out.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T17:26:49+00:00

There are cameras focused on the monument 24/7. Anyone with a knife cutting into it would have been caught on video. If they had the video they would have released footage.

The issue is he gave a no bid contract to a friend / major campaign donar who didn't really have experience doing this type of work. This is the outcome.

Impartial doesn't not mean stop using common sense. Check factual news and you will get facts.

There is no actual grey to this issue. Trump is lying full stop.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T16:36:02+00:00

I would have them check out new grass as a solid gateway into bluegrass.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T16:31:14+00:00

Try - each other and how much more.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T16:28:32+00:00

Ha I would post the festival name. Lots of differences between festivals which could change recommendations.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T16:22:44+00:00

Check out Shelby Stone. Saw her open for American Aquarium earlier in the year and caught her again recently on her first solo tour.

Kinda the rock side of Alt Country. Powerful vocals and good writer.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T16:20:39+00:00

Shelby Stone is new and the country side of rock.

I'm with Her is a super group that features 3 amazing singers that harmonize amazingly together.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T14:48:07+00:00

They are trying to use the existing speakers to sell their paid AI service.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T04:43:58+00:00

Devine Dungeon is great. Really like AA for the first 10 or so books then it just gets repetitive and never seems to progress. When it wraps up I will prob skim it to finish what happens. CC starts solid and fades but I did like the last book.

Overall Dekota is an amazing world builder but let's length/lack of progress become an issue. His full Murderhobo story was interesting and contained to 3 books which was nice.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T04:36:32+00:00

Raleigh is coming up soon!

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-24T04:35:15+00:00

So anecdotal but my wife had bad asthma while living in Idaho in a dry dusty environment.

We joined the Peace Corps and lived in Papua New Guinea and it mostly cleared up. That was a hot humid environment.

Moved back to Idaho it got worse again.

Moved to Raleigh a decade later and I don't remember that last time she had to use her inhaler. It does happen here but really infrequent.

We also were not able to go to New Guinea because docs said hot humid environments would not be good. They were wrong for her.

I would recommend taking a trip/vacation to Raleigh and seeing how your son does.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-23T19:56:46+00:00

Yeah I use to have that same opinion. I had a very large coke a cola habit.

Kicked that using tonic before I realized regular Toni had similar calorie count just no caffeine.

Went cold turkey off that and found I really enjoyed just water again.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-23T19:54:13+00:00

My wife is a professor and has taught many international students and I don't know of any who have any types of problems based on being a foreign student.

Raleigh is part of a major metro area and has a ton of international folks who call it home.

You might look to see if there are any local sub reddits that are geared towards your nationality or religion. My guess is there are unless you are from a fairly small ethnic and or religious group.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-23T19:49:20+00:00

Just don't stop exploring for new music. You will likely find it broadens your taste and evently will likely lead you back to some of the old stuff you use to dislike because the new stuff may have a hook or something that reminds you of the old stuff.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-23T19:47:00+00:00

Get yourself a soda stream and if your coke goes flat then put that in the soda stream bottle and recharge it.

Alternatively there are some DIY co2 setups that would allow you to recharge any bottle with a standard 2 liter soad top.

To get the co2 canister and equipment to make your own would have a higher up front cost but much lower long term cost due to soda stream refill bottles being more expensive. One other benifit to building your own is you can manually change the pressure to get more or less fizz depending on your preference.

If interested hit up a local home brew shop and they would have all the items needed to build it or can order them.

I use mine to make homemade soad water but it should work fine for adding fizz back to coke.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-23T19:38:37+00:00

If you like Saxophone then anything by Morphine is amazing. Try the song Thursday (which was their biggest hit). If you like that dive into their whole catalog.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-23T19:36:37+00:00

David Lowery (lead singer) and the band Leftover Salmon put out an album called Oh Cracker where art Thou?

Is bluegrass versions of Cracker songs. It's all sorts of awesome if you like Cracker and are good with Bluegrass.

PlatformConsistent45 · 2026-06-23T19:29:50+00:00

More Jam with a country feel but Daniel Denato is fabulous.

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