I'm in Raleigh now. Used to be in Madison WI, Minneapolis, Columbia SC, Albany NY, NYC. Jumped from town to town finding myself jobs, contracts, making descent living, but with struggle.
Having no property giving me a mobile possibility to load rental truck with my stuff and get movin to the place that has a job for me and I tend to keep it this way. The mind set of being flexible and always having plan B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P... will always prevent me from getting settled anywhere and having property as my personal complex. It was also beneficial to my recent divorce that was easy and uncontested:) So technically I'm a bum but with ability to support myself economically.
Having lived in Raleigh-Durham, I realize that this area would be very friendly to Mr&Mrs LeaveMeAlone (just like Liz) but not to me. I'm an alien in these Towns of Social Deficit. Couldn't even find anyone to celebrate my favorite US holiday April 20th(A birthday of Mary Johanna)! Despite that, there are positive things as well such as nice landscapes, woods, interesting landmarks, nice working environment and constant demographic development that could change things within a period of time.
There's Moon Audio dealer in Cary that is very friendly and gives equipment for home tests with no obligation to purchase. I still didn't take advantage of his hospitality to borrow the new Grace M903 balanced DAC/preamp/headphone amp, but as soon as I borrow one, I'll probably post a review.
My sound system is nice and powerful with fancy analogue playback but overall is cheap. Have close to 2000 vinyls, few hundreds of CDs, but most of the digital collection is on hard drive. I maintain it completely DIY so is my 1999 Volvo wagon had never seen a professional shop thanks to Matthew's Volvo Site. Doing DIY audio, automobile, boat and home cooking saves me lots of money and gives me an ability to have nice european vehicle, boat and sound system.
After all I'm social, hostpitality oriented, 420 friendly, able to trhow nice cook-out party with nice BBQ, steak, burger at the back yard... Welcome anybody who wishes to get in touch. Too bad that Agon disabled their internal communication system between members. They suck more and more day by day and anything new they implement is only getting worse and worse.
