Meeting Raleigh
A former NYer’s pre-pandemic love letter to Raleigh
8 min readJan 25, 2021
By Chauncey Zalkin
Six months ago, I was a displaced NYer living in the low country of South Carolina with my twin preschoolers desperately plotting my return to the Northeast. A month later, I was loading boxes into a U-Haul headed to a new life in Raleigh.