does NC like Californians?! advice needed!!

jack
Tue, 29 May 2007 11:41:44 +0000

b4nnd20: Thanks; yes, I’ll agree that Cary is a little scary (just a little too pristine, what with all those golf courses, clean sidewalks, and Starbucks on every corner!). I always feel like I’m stepping into Stepford when I go there, or maybe Portmeirion (anybody remember The Prisoner?). So, yeah, I guess downtown Raleigh does have some character, in comparison to Cary. ;)

BedHead: I have a Southern (from NC) friend who has had to travel all over the U.S., and abroad, for her job–for the last 30 years. We talked about CA once, and I asked if she liked living there. She said it was the one place she had lived where she felt as comfortable and as “at home” as she did in NC. She felt it had the most Southern feel than any other place she had lived–and, as you say, different enough to be really interesting/educational, yet the people seemed “familiar,” somehow.