Question : Relocating from Putnam County, NY to Raleigh, NC?
A company offered me a management position down in Cary. I currently live on the NYC suburbs and I commute 4 hours (round trip) a day to work. The company is offering me a salary 20% lower then mine here. We both (me and wife) work and she’ll probably not find a job easily there, so, we would have to live with just one income for a period of time. I also have a daughter which is 20 months old.

A couple of questions:

- Want to know what areas I should stay away from when looking for a Real Estate?
- What would be the worse case scenario in terms of commuting to work (based upon the metro area), I would be working in Cary.
- What type of attractions does the city offer?
- Which big companies have a presence there?
- Average temperature in the winter?
- Crime ?
- Schools ?
- Property taxes ? Here we pay (where we live) about $ 5k an year for a 2000 sq ft house which is worth 285k.

I may have other questions, so, would like to hear more specially from those who actually did this move.

Thank you in advance !
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Best answer:

Answer by rob1977nc
Well, as an NC native, I’ve come to try to avoid Cary personally. It is growing too quickly and its infrastructure cannot keep up. (Schools too crowded, roads clogged up, etc.) Not to mention there’s not much to do in Cary but get lost in their endless mazes of strip malls and fast food joints.
That said, it’s not a bad place to get a job to commute to, because most people in Cary are commuting out to other places. So you’d be going opposite of them.
If it were me, I’d live in southwestern Raleigh and commute into Cary…from there, it should only be a 10-20 minute commute really. And southwestern Raleigh is both more affordable than Cary and longer established, thus fewer population spikes that result in school overcrowding and constant reassignment that you normally find in Cary. Plus you’d be closer to downtown Raleigh which is where EVERYthing interesting is (restaurants, museums, theaters, music venues, bars, art galleries, etc).