New Bern: Taberna vs. Carolina Colours

[Beffrey2]

Originally Posted by Steven McCurdy

You can join Star Hill Golf course here in Cape Careteret...They have special that I think runs thru July 1st....Pay $1500 for fifteen months membership, and you get unlimited golf after 1pm and use of the pool...pretty sweet deal for a 27 hole golf course....kept in immaculate condition...

The course has no goat paths, all concrete cart paths...Nice pro shop, the club is across the drive....and it has the Star Hill Grill downstairs...

Yolu have to check it out....

Crystal Coast Realtor- Steven McCurdy - Home

Dude, please stop...this person is asking about New Bern...not swansboro!

I would also pick CC because of the trees as another poster stated. However, Brices Creek IMO is the best area in New Bern. When I say Brices Creek, I don't mean the one down Hwy 70 east near CC and Taberna..I mean the real Brices Creek along the Trent River directly across from Trent Woods. This is a great area! Just stop by Merchants...the local store...and you will know you are home!

[interestedobservor]

Both Carolina Colours and Taberna are quality developments. However, there are differences. Colours is under development, while Taberna is fully sold out (by the developer). The main difference is twofold. Colours is focused on community, and all its amenities, other than golf, are available to all its property owners. This includes its clubhouse (Pavilion), which includes a sports bar and a tavern, as well as meeting, banquet and card rooms. There is no clubhouse for the community in Taberna, rather the rather small pro shop/clubhouse is available for use by golf club owners only.

The second major difference is the land itself. Colours is much more wooded and features more rolling landscapes. Brice Creek also meanders through Colours.

The nice Taberna golf course is up and running, and is privately owned and operated. The Carolina Colours golf course is nearing completion, and will be member owned. Both are quality layouts, the best in the central coastal region of NC.

Carolina Colours has fiber optic service to each home, which Taberna does not, but all of Taberna's amenties are complete, even though the pool and tennis facilities are club owned and available only to club members. The pool and tennis facilities at Carolina Colours are not yet constructed, but will be available to all property owners when constructed. Fitness equipment is now available at Carolina Colours, not at Taberna.

New Bern is a great place to live. Looking at the attributes of both Carolina Colours and Taberna before making a life style decision is the only prudent course of action to take.

[LLN]

Just so you know, here are comments from "locals" in the paper about the huge increase in water rates, recently voted by the local mayor/aldermen. We got the same reaction following the huge electric increase:

The people building in Carolina Colours should pay the extra for their own extra needs - they certainly have the money if they are building there in the first place. I think it's a total joke that CC and Taberna are even in the city limits. Makes no sense for the whole city to pay for it for them. I can agree Township 7 has some needs, but since when are we in the city? Our county sewer comes from the city (and it is not cheap!) but our water supply is county. Country life is looking better and better.

Increased tap on fees only affect new construction so yes Carolina Colors is paying their way. As for the increased water bills, thank Raleigh. they are the ones that gave an UNFUNDED mandate that made New Bern change Aquifers that caused infrastructure to be built as well and more treatment since the water wasn't pure enough. I don't like it any more than anybody else, but it is not the Aldermen's fault

The people in Carolina-I-can't-spell-Colours will be able to afford this rate hike real easy. Real folks who are living on fixed incomes, don't have fancy homes, and lots of tough bills to pay, THEY'RE the ones who have to feel another slap in the face from their local gov't. They couldn't do this 2 years ago, they said because times were bad? Well, they're a whole lot worse now the last time I checked, so now it's ok? The logic of New Bern and Craven County never ceases to amaze me.

And Trent Woods is a lot more part of New Bern than Taberna or Carolina-I-can't-spell-Colours is. I don't care what piece of paper says otherwise.