My cousin’s friend, Vanessa, and her boyfriend moved to San Diego a few years ago. She’s settled down and applying to grad school for photography. She did it again not too long ago, visiting other parts of Asia, India and the Middle East. Camera in hand, she took amazing photos and experienced amazing things. In the month or so she was there, she banked enough money to spend a month traveling Asia. She left us last year to head down to New Orleans to bartend at a dive she used to work at in college. I guess we’ll just have to wing it and hope for the best. Now, most of the reviews on this site are a few years old and you can’t take everything you read on the internet as fact so where does that leave Chuck and me when we try to find a place to live? A quick Google search leads me to this awesome review.
Apartments may also look great on paper and then a quick search for reviews leads you to some disappointing information. While we plan to visit again in June for an extended weekend, there isn’t much we can go on when it comes to finding a safe place to call home.Īpartment listings on websites don’t exactly have an “Avoid places that will require me to have the cops on speed dial” option. We also don’t know anyone that lives in the area. Jobs are an issue since the unemployment rate hovers around 10 percent, whereas in Raleigh and Asheville it’s a couple points lower.Īsheville was one of our favorite towns, but it’s also the one we spend the least amount of time in. We haven’t done much legwork for Winston-Salem, but with Chuck’s cousin living in the area and her husband being a local cop, finding a good place to live will be pretty easy. My friend Jess in Durham ended up in a nasty apartment complex and ended up calling the police on multiple occasions, three of those times was because her place was broken into.
The plus side of Raleigh is that I know people in the area who can tell us what areas are great and which are the ghetto. It would be the best place to find a minimum wage gig, but with no chances of even finding work as a substitute teacher, what’s the point? Raleigh was at the top of our list until the school district imposed a hiring freeze. Finding a place to rent is where the problem lies.Ĭhuck and I are still deciding where in North Carolina we want to move.
Sure, there’s that whole employment issue, but with the cost of living so low, a minimum wage job could pay the rent. The hardest part about deciding to move out of state is finding a place to hang your hat.