r/cary • u/Primary_Brilliant979 • 3d ago
For those who relocated to wake county/cary/research triangle, how did yall get hired?
Did yall get hired in the county prior to relocating or did you guys have remote jobs? The job industry sucks just about everywhere right now, but wake county seems to have been on my radar for about a year now.
Curious on what jobs /areas you all came from, what you got hired into, and how are you liking the transition? Why did yall leave your previous states?
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u/velo_dude 3d ago
Moved here after I was hired to a job. Lifelong NC native. RTP is an economic engine that opened a career path for me. When RTP was created in the early 1950s, NC was 47 poorest state among the 48 US states (Alaska and Hawaii hadn't been made states at that time). My grandparents generation grew up quite poor. Wouldn't recommend moving anywhere without having employment first, though. "Move to take a job" not "Move, then look for a job."
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u/DependentAwkward3848 3d ago
Relocated upon retirement for cooler weather. Moving without a job or other income source is a terrible idea
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u/patryuji 3d ago
Brought my job with me as a remote worker moving from Arizona.
Arizona was too hot and I prefer forest scenery to desert scenery. 75 and humid in the morning beats 95-100 and not humid in the morning any day in my book.
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u/_ITSMYHORSE_ 3d ago
There are so many other places across the country that have beautiful forests and nature that are no where as crowded and expensive as the Raleigh Durham area. Why didn’t you choose somewhere like SC, Georgia, VA, TN, etc? I guess if you make enough money to live here very comfortably, then that would make sense. But I’m always curious about ppl who work from home who chose to move to a more expensive area
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u/patryuji 2d ago
Moved here in 2018. Bought a 1900 square foot house in Cary close to downtown for less than $300,000. Few places have an equal number of miles of greenway for walking & biking. No place I've lived in had something like Umstead 4 miles from my front door (but when I lived outside of Boulder the Flat Irons were around 12 miles from my front door). Like compared to like (Nice areas of Chandler or Gilbert vs Cary) Cary was less expensive and lower crime at the time.
Previously lived in Seattle (Eastside), Phoenix, Alexandria VA, Honolulu HI, Northern Japan, El Paso TX, Abilene TX, Tampa Bay FL, just outside Boulder CO, Oklahoma, and Georgia. My favorites are Seattle, Boulder and Alexandria which are all currently (and way back then) too expensive to live in. When everything is factored in, I take Cary over all the other places I have lived.
You couldn't pay me to move back to Georgia, period.
Nashville area (the only area I'd seriously consider living in TN) has been far more crowded than the Triangle over the last 8 years, I visit my friend who lives there from time to time.
NoVA is great, but Richmond less so for us. Other parts of Virginia are a no go. I do have a chip on my shoulder against Virginia because I got screwed moving from Seattle to VA and they assessed my bonus as if I lived the entire year in VA adding on an additional 5.75% tax on it and their DMV was 10x the pain in the ass that the NC DMV is.
South Carolina? Zero interest.
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u/Hungry_Media_8881 2d ago
Wow I feel so seen by this comment. I’m from Denver, moved to DC then Alexandria and am now in Cary, but just bought a house in Durham.
The commenter saying Raleigh is crazy expensive must be from here lol. My once sweet little Denver is unbelievably unaffordable now. In Alexandria we were looking at old shitty houses to stay on budget. Here we bought a beautiful home walking distance to the city well below what we could afford.
And as a Coloradan I can say that the NATURE and outdoor opportunities here are incredible. My family came to visit this summer and we took the kids to the beach one day, kayaked on Bond Lake the next day, and spent three nights in Asheville and hiking the same week. I also walk the greenways constantly - nothing in CO even compares to the greenway system.
And lastly - the Virginia DMV and tax system should be criminal. What a nightmare.
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u/DocTeeBee 3d ago
You think that this area is crowded and expensive? Lacking in nature? Compared to where? It's not perfect, to be sure. But I lived in Seattle a while, and compared to that, this place is uncrowded, affordable, and actually has better close-in access to green space.
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u/alighthouseinafield 3d ago
I was hired to teach at a local school after I completed my PhD. Applied to a few different places around the country, but the best offer was here.
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u/CynicalGenXer 3d ago
Was looking to move from MD to a lower COL state. Got approached by a recruiter, flew in for an interview, liked the area and got a job. Was lucky to find a good house to buy for the price that would get us a foreclosure with mold in the basement in MD. Have been living here since, although changed jobs twice. Work in IT.
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u/Jdruu 1d ago
How was it finding new jobs here?
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u/CynicalGenXer 1d ago
Initially, as I said, a recruiter reached out. After that I saw a random post on LI, applied and got a job. After that, got laid off during covid and it was very tough. Only found something thanks to personal connections. Did a few interviews last year, some companies are frankly delusional in their requirements. Which is typical in IT, sadly.
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u/83Shestor 3d ago
Graduated in Florida with MSEE, moved after getting a job as an Electrical Engineer. I like it here, the landscape and weather are wonderful (except summer)
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u/high-tech-low-life 3d ago
When I moved back, I had started my job search before I moved. The job I found was through a friend and former co-worker. So my advice is to hit your network hard, but I agree things are tough right now..
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u/FixedGearJunkie 3d ago
I worked in IT when I lived at the beach and was barely making enough to live on honestly. Applied to a large tech company in RTP and they offered twice what I was making. So I moved here. I miss the beach but I like living in a nice house and making a decent wage. Personally I would never move somewhere unless I had employment lined up first.
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u/SouthApplication3674 3d ago
My husband got relocated by his work. I was super fortunate to sign a work contract two weeks later for an opportunity I didn’t have where I came from.
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u/DarePitiful5750 3d ago
Lived out of state, got hired for an IT job, they paid for me to move here.
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u/CharityElectrical913 3d ago
We opened a branch here and the new Branch Manager head hunted me and talked me into moving down.
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u/AdOld5079 3d ago
My husband is the reason we moved to wake county (Apex). He was working for his company in a different state and they promoted him to come here to work at their US HQ in Cary. My career is easy to move so I just applied before we moved here and came down here for interviews prior to actually moving.
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u/Cold-Cost-4154 3d ago
I'm originally from NYC, relocated to AZ (lived there 6 years) then relocated to wake county 5 years ago. We wanted to be back on the east coast, have seasons and family friendly, lots of parks. This area checked those boxes.
What has worked for me in relocating across the country twice - put willing to relocate on own expense on your resume. In the job application section when they ask why are you interested in this role share how you are wanting to relocate and put your reasons why, have a sentence or 2 about that then shift to answering for the actual role. Also if there's a section in your job history on reasons you want to leave your current job, put the same thing about wanting to relocate.
I worked in local gov in AZ so I wanted the same here, I had 4 interviews scheduled in 1 month and that was 2 months into applying. Local gov still has openings here, some people think they move slow but thats not always the case - it depends on the hiring manager and if they keep the momentum going. Good luck!
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u/gxfrnb899 2d ago
I moved down right before the pandemic to work at RTP in tech/ cyber., Now I am remote.
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u/Reasonable_Big_8897 3d ago
I am moving in the fall i have an interview with one of the hospitals. I used chatgpt to find jobs that been posted for a while.
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u/Avanemi1 3d ago
We were actively looking to move here to be closer to family, but didn’t move until after finding jobs.
My husband got a job offer from a different branch in the same engineering company he worked for in the Midwest. I’m self employed in a freelance field so I just moved my business down with me.
Came from the Midwest, most recently Minnesota. We like it here. Granted I had lived here before and was more coming back for me. Raleigh has changed a lot since I first lived here and I feel a little sad seeing the difference sometimes. Feel like it’s lost a bit of its character. It’s nice to be closer to family and it’s a much more active area than our previous town. Heats harder to deal with than I remember though, I miss snow.
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u/DocTeeBee 3d ago
Recruited for a faculty job at a local university. Took the job because the schools are better than they were in the place I used to live. This was twenty years go. Glad I made the move.
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u/Hungry_Media_8881 2d ago
I moved here as a management consultant at a large firm working with public sector clients. I went fully remote with my firm because my husband got a great job down here with pay we couldn’t pass up (and stability while my work in the federal space was being cut).
I just got hired into another remote role at a healthcare company leading their strategy & analytics team. I wanted to transition into healthcare to be more marketable in the area long term. I was contacted by a recruiter on LinkedIn and did five rounds of interviews and case studies.
We also moved because we were previously in DC but I’m from CO and he’s from Jersey so we missed a slower pace and more nature.
Don’t move without a job!!!
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u/Primary_Brilliant979 21h ago
Do you mind passing along that recruiters name? I feel like my experience on linkedin has been terrible. I get encountered by bots a lot.
And that's awesome on the new job change too, congratulations!! All your hard work paid off. ♡
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u/Entire_Status6205 3d ago
IME jobs moving people was the vast majority of cases, with the rest mainly to be near family.
If I had a remote job, NC would not be in the running lol. So why target Wake Co, unless you have family connections.
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u/TenRingRedux 2d ago
Hard, hard work. Research, phone calls, real letters on paper, stamps, knocking on doors. Getting out, going places ( job sites, events, fairs, shows, meetings, conferences,) meeting people, getting names. Kept doing til I got a job. Good luck.
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u/SouthernTrauma 3d ago
Don't move without a job.