Oh I see.  I live in Winston-Salem, NC, a medium-sized city of 135,000
people.  We have a fairly good public transit system but the buses don't
stop at every corner, and you'd have to make sure you live in a place that
is close to a bus stop.  Most folks drive here, as I do.

We have three colleges/universities here - Wake Forest U., Winston-Salem
State U, and Salem College, a four-year college.  We also have two medical
centres - Wake Forest U Medical Centre (includes the Bowman Gray Med.
School) and Forsyth Medical centre, so there is a market for counsellors,
but I don't know if they're hiring.  I do know the local public mental
health centre is not hiring  as their budget is constantly being squeezed
every year.

Generally speaking, the economy has taken a couple of hits this past year -
Wachovia Trust & Bank merged with First Union National Bank and the
headquarters are moving to Charlotte, taking hundreds of jobs down there.  I
work for Sara Lee Hosiery, a division of Sara Lee Corp, and we've just laid
off 60 workers here in headquarters in WS and 360 in our plant in Jamaica.
The textile industry has been taking a lot of hits these past 10 years.
However, we have other industries here and so it won't be really bad and
we'll recover.

Hope this is what you're looking for.  I love it here but I've lived in a
lot of other places and would probably be as happy elsewhere as long as I
had my car and computer! LOL  I'd love to be able to move to London or
Dublin myself.

Kat



----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Marcus" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2002 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: relocation again


> Hi! Kathleen,
>
> Thanks. The reason I kind of ruled out Tampa is I understood that the =
> paratransit system was very unreliable. If I could or wanted to bother =
> to use the bus system (if there were sidewalks) then I would not be =
> eligible around here for the door-to-door transportation. If you have =
> any further thoughts, they would of course be greatly appreciated.
>
> What city are you from and how is the transportation handicapped and =
> otherwise there? What about the economy?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Gary [log in to unmask]