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   Piffin | Nov 12, 2002 07:14am | #1

   Not too close but similar country, I have a brother in Andeson SC and a BIL in Charleston SC. They both have a hard time keeping up with all the work but there are a lot of hacks or crapenters around to force prices down too.

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   Excellence is its own reward!

   "The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are." --Marcus Aurelius

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   framersmtt | Nov 13, 2002 05:58am | #4

   Piffin,

    Thankyou for the reply to my message.  I appreciate the response.

   "Drive-'em straight"

                                                 Framer

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   CloudHidden | Nov 12, 2002 07:14pm | #2

   Bucksnort Billy is from that area, me thinks. Search him out and send him a note. Or put "Moving to Raleigh" as a thread title and he might find it.

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   ClayF1 | Nov 13, 2002 05:50am | #3

   Framer, I pretty much grew up in Raleigh and framed there for about nine years. I still have a brother there who is a residential electrician so I still know fairly well how things are going.

   As a matter of fact I am driving down there next week on the twenty second for the whole week of Thanksgiving. If you want to know anything about Raleigh specifically I can probably tell you, or find out for you.

   Hopefully bucksnort billy will come through here, I believe he lives in Chapel Hill. Just a stones throw from Raleigh.

   Feel free to e-mail me at [email protected] and I will help you out any way I can.

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   framersmtt | Nov 13, 2002 06:03am | #6

   Clay,

          Thankyou for the reply and so soon.  I doubt I will move to N.C. until summer, I do want to e-mail you and get any job info. (framer) that will be helpful to me.

                                 Thanks again,

                                  Framer

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   Justus | Nov 13, 2002 06:15am | #7

   I live in Durham, about 15 minutes north of Raleigh, (we call this area the triangle, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh) There is another big town called Cary right in the middle of all this. In a few more years this will all be one big city.

    Anyway, there was a huge boom a few years back, the triangle is (was) a big high tech center, Nortel, IBM, Cisco, GE, Glaxo all have or had big campus' here. During the 90's this area exploded, you could barley finish hanging up a for sale sign and you would have offers.  After the tech bubble burst a lot of the big name firms started closing and or letting go a lot of folks. I've seen streets in Cary with three and four houses for sale on one block, and they are still for sale. 

    There is still a lot of new construction going on, mainly big apartment complexes, there are two going up right near where I live. I doubt you would have trouble finding work, but things are a lot different now.  It is a very nice place to live. I'd be happy to hook up with you when you get here, show you around a bit. Shoot me a line.

   Justus Koshiol

   Running Pug Construction

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   framersmtt | Nov 13, 2002 07:21am | #8

   Justus,

               Thankyou for replying.  I will keep your const. site in mind.  I hope to move in that area this summer.  Feel free to e-mail me.

                  [email protected]

                                                                 framer (Scott)

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   Justus | Nov 13, 2002 02:24pm | #9

   Sorry, I should have been more clear, I'm a one man shop. I can't give you a job, just local knowlege. I'll send you my contact info though, it's nice to know someone in town.

   Justus Koshiol

   Running Pug Construction

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   framersmtt | Nov 13, 2002 06:00am | #5

   Cloud Hidden,

               Thankyou for replying back!

                                                     Framer