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What are our favorite places to eat, drink, play, and explore in Raleigh? And what are our favorite things about living in Raleigh? In this episode, we share our contrasting, and sometimes the same, opinions.   Favorite breakfast, lunch and dinner spots Favorite brewery and bar Favorite festival / event including the fun ones that had us running in flip flops and gorging on doughnuts. We share what we call flip flops in Australia and an embarrassing experience mixing it up in the USA A special concert experienced at our favorite music venue. Favorite neighborhood to explore Our dilemma - torn between two dream places to live in Raleigh Full show notes and resources here: https://thisisraleigh.com/raleigh-favorites-podcast/

How we lost $500K in assets, started blogging, and got awarded Green Cards.    This episode dives deep into our past real estate disaster that happened right here in Raleigh during the GFC, how we ended up losing everything, including two properties, our jobs, our savings, and ended up in serious credit card debt. But fortunately we were able to turn it all around. Listen in to how we did that, and how overcoming those challenges has helped us get through this current COVID crisis.   We have had quite the journey behind the scenes, and recording this episode brought back so many tough memories but powerful life lessons!   Full show notes: https://thisisraleigh.com/blogging-green-cards-podcast/

In episode 2, we share the many different reasons we love living in Raleigh. It captured us immediately, and when we returned to Australia in 2006, we missed it so much, we realized it's where we wanted our forever home to be. Listen in to hear how we came to love the community, what jobs we worked, interesting people we met, fun stories and much more! Full show notes: https://thisisraleigh.com/love-raleigh-podcast/ We talk about: How the friendliness of people in Raleigh and North Carolina drew us in The beauty of the City of Oaks Our first friend in Raleigh, Hitesh (we're still great mates) The joy of traveling like the locals The rich cultural experiences we had like: election parties jumping over the fires in Franklin St crashing a frat party Kirby Derby (before it was in Dorothea Dix The benefits of having connections to your own culture when you live in a foreign place But, why you should also branch out to meet the locals The amazing location for travel Raleigh offers Craig's jobs in Raleigh: Construction and working for Delta Airlines The work life balance of Australia compared to the US The strangeness of why Americans don't take their vacation leave!! The end of our first two-year teaching experience in the USA How our road trip across the US on the way back to Australia convinced us to come back. Thanks for listening. Remember to subscribe and leave a review!

Welcome to the first episode of This is Raleigh podcast, where we share the warm and vibrant lifestyle of a place we chose as our permanent home (after 23 years of nomadic travels) In this episode we share the first part of our story where I was randomly placed at a school in Johnston County on a cultural teaching exchange program. We knew nothing about Raleigh and instantly felt we belonged. We share: How we first heard of Raleigh and what brought us here The cultural exchange program I joined and the local Triangle company behind it (and their important mission) The very difficult application process for my teaching job (spanning 3 continents) When we first felt like Raleigh was home (like immediately) The challenges of settling into a new country + ways to overcome culture shock and make it great My teaching experience in Johnston County and working through Educational cultural shock How the people we met helped us fall in love with Raleigh Other reasons we loved living in Raleigh In the first three episodes of our This is Raleigh podcast, we're diving deep into our story of how ended up in Raleigh in 2004, moved back and forth several times since, and eventually got a green card to live permanently. Thanks for listening. Leave a review, subscribe and share us with your friends.  Full show notes: https://thisisraleigh.com/moving-to-raleigh-podcast/