What do ya'll know about Cary?

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · May 17, 2006

Do not live there (live FAR to the east), but hear it is expensive and overgrown. This city has experienced explosive population increase in the last 20 years or so.

yeepers · May 17, 2006

Hi Abby,

I live in Cary and it's nice enough. Expensive and even more expensive depending on where you are. They're building new townhomes up the street and those start in the $300,000 range. Don't know about you but that's ridiculous to me. Average price of a starter home in the area is probably in the $250-300K range.

Do you love homeowners associations or playing keep up with the Joneses? If you do you'll love Cary! Here, from what I understand, they told the Red Roof Inn that they couldn't build one with a red roof because it went against the zoning bylaws. They even paint manhole covers green to match the grass.

Not to say it isn't a good place to live - great schools if you have kids yadda yadda yadda but if you want to live in a town with a little more personality you might look elsewhere :) Taxes are slightly higher in Cary compared to surrounding towns to cover the cost of painting those manhole covers.

It's like Pleasantville on steroids. I think if we'd have known then what we know now we might have picked another location.

Feel free to PM if you have any specific questions

-Yee

butler17 · May 17, 2006

I just wrote a huge message and had it erased, grhhh! I just bought a house in Cary, and I love it (so far). I'm single, no kids... I just moved here because I like it and its very affordable compared to everywhere else I've lived.

Its safe, clean, pretty, and very convenient; minutes to great shopping, hospitals, universities, the airport, and the nightlife/jobs of the downtown areas in the Triangle.

I've found the people to be kind, welcoming, and interesting. I think it is actually less snobby and status oriented than most upper-middle-class towns.

Send me a private message, if you'd like!

RNSuzq1, RN · May 18, 2006

Hi Yeepers,

Your post cracked me up. Pleasantville on steroids really sums it up... :lol2: I didn't know they painted the manhole covers green, that's pretty funny.

There was a big debate last year about a guy flying a large American Flag in his yard - the homeowners assoc. had a problem with that - the poor guy was made out to be some lunatic and it made the News - CRAZY... A lot of the homeowners assoc. can dictate what color you paint your house, if you can build a shed in the backyard, etc.

We live in Clayton (the new Cary) and my husband wants to sell our house and get out of town before the taxes get any higher and people start telling us what we can and can't do to our home...

yeepers · May 19, 2006

Hey Susan,

It's pretty crazy. We have a guy who lives down the road from us and he's the local "kook". He probably moved out here when there was nothing but farmland thinking he was getting away from it all and, poor guy, it got all built up around him. Anyhow, he's been here so long that he predates the bylaws and whatnot so his is the only house that's got junk all over the yard and stuff strewn all over.....well, let's say it's not the typical Cary house I LOVE IT!!

Dunno if you read in the papers not too long ago....there was a HOA coup it made big news locally...well, it was actually my HOA. I tell ya...these people haven't got anything better to do.

Anyhow, we're here for the short-medium term but the moment we can find something outside the city limits we're going for it!!

-Yee

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · May 19, 2006

Here, from what I understand, they told the Red Roof Inn that they couldn't build one with a red roof because it went against the zoning bylaws. They even paint manhole covers green to match the grass....
It's like Pleasantville on steroids.

LOL!!! Too funny! :lol2:

carolinapooh, BSN, RN · May 31, 2006

Hey Susan,
It's pretty crazy. We have a guy who lives down the road from us and he's the local "kook". He probably moved out here when there was nothing but farmland thinking he was getting away from it all and, poor guy, it got all built up around him. Anyhow, he's been here so long that he predates the bylaws and whatnot so his is the only house that's got junk all over the yard and stuff strewn all over.....well, let's say it's not the typical Cary house I LOVE IT!!
Dunno if you read in the papers not too long ago....there was a HMA coup it made big news locally...well, it was actually my HMA. I tell ya...these people haven't got anything better to do.
Anyhow, we're here for the short-medium term but the moment we can find something outside the city limits we're going for it!!
-Yee

I live in North Durham, my sister lives in Garner, and you are CRACKING ME UP!!! I even pasted your posts in an email to my DH overseas....

ETA - it may be possible that your local "kook" is one of the last sane people in your subdivision....and I suppose you know what "CARY" stands for, right? :jester: :lol2:

yeepers · May 31, 2006

....and I suppose you know what "CARY" stands for, right?

Well, we folks like to think of it as the "C"ontainment "A"rea for "R"elocated "Y"ankees.....and whaddya know......I'm a Yankee!!! So I suppose it's true :lol2:

-Yee

carolinapooh, BSN, RN · Jun 1, 2006

Well, we folks like to think of it as the "C"ontainment "A"rea for "R"elocated "Y"ankees.....and whaddya know......I'm a Yankee!!! So I suppose it's true
-Yee

SHE SHOOTS, SHE SCORES!!! :flowersfo :lol_hitti

kellyo, LPN · Jun 1, 2006

Well, we folks like to think of it as the "C"ontainment "A"rea for "R"elocated "Y"ankees.....and whaddya know......I'm a Yankee!!! So I suppose it's true
-Yee

And I'm in CLAYTON:

C - Cary

L - Like

A - Area

Y - Yankees

T - Trying

O - Out

N - Now

Hee, hee!

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · Jun 9, 2006

Believe it or not, back in the early-mid 70's (when my husband-to-be and I were attending UNC in Chapel Hill), Cary seemed nothing more than a quaint village.

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19167

http://www.vickyolive.com/welcome_to_cary/

http://www.kurtzandblum.com/community_cary.html