[TNRyan23]

Originally Posted by berryjuice4life

TN u are so wrong....I cant even tell you the AMOUNT of North Easterners, NY and NJ people who live here and they are coming in Droves..and some of us joke that it will be another Little North except for people here forgot where they came from because they sold their homes for Tremendous amounts of money back up North and bought these huge homes and have very little mortgages so on and so forth...however..Florida and Ohio are right behind them..in moving to NC...especially where we live...

We have a few families that relocated here from New Jersey but we're overrun with escaped Floridians. I have an uncle that lives near Concord, NC and he says the amount of Floridians that have moved there is sick. lol

[berryjuice4life]

Originally Posted by HopToIt

Yup, I heard about all the folks from NY and NJ moving to Charlotte... another S FL on your hands! I bet the natives are so pleased!

Pretty much why I crossed Charlotte off my list. A lot of nice ppl still there, but becoming another NY or S FL. No thanks!

OMG so right you are my friend

Its not even funny, when the Northern people get tired of the Northerners we have a problem...ROFL

[berryjuice4life]

Originally Posted by TNRyan23

We have a few families that relocated here from New Jersey but we're overrun with escaped Floridians. I have an uncle that lives near Concord, NC and he says the amount of Floridians that have moved there is sick. lol

and so right you are...lol

Most of the influx is from NY, NJ, FL, OH, and cant forget CALIFORNIA they want a slice of UTOPIA TOO...hahaha...

U know I wonder what is going to be the next POPULAR UTOPIA????

when we all run out of space...

[grapico]

Originally Posted by berryjuice4life

TN u are so wrong....I cant even tell you the AMOUNT of North Easterners, NY and NJ people who live here and they are coming in Droves..and some of us joke that it will be another Little North except for people here forgot where they came from because they sold their homes for Tremendous amounts of money back up North and bought these huge homes and have very little mortgages so on and so forth...however..Florida and Ohio are right behind them..in moving to NC...especially where we live...

I personally know 3 people from Ohio and 2 from Illinois that move and rave about Charlotte...

not really my thing though.

[zevzen]

Jealous, no way! I love it here. I can wear shorts everyday and never ever have to shovel snow or worry about ice. There are as many cookie cutter houses here and anywhere else. Traffic is a little better in Florida -- no snow delays. Sure Florida has done some poor urban planning but what state that is growing (or was growing) does not have planning problems? Best of all, I don't have the expense of heating my home in the winter.

[berryjuice4life]

G u know what its a nice place here but also not for us....

[grapico]

Originally Posted by zevzen

Jealous, no way! I love it here. I can wear shorts everyday and never ever have to shovel snow or worry about ice. There are as many cookie cutter houses here and anywhere else. Traffic is a little better in Florida -- no snow delays. Sure Florida has done some poor urban planning but what state that is growing (or was growing) does not have planning problems? Best of all, I don't have the expense of heating my home in the winter.

shorts everyday? do you work? Going to work in july in a business suit is no fun.
Yeah no snow delays, plenty of traffic delays because most people here have multiple cars.
isn't your heating bill trumped by the high AC... I know mine is, gas heating bill was only bad for a few years.... down here I can see 400 a month for an electric bill in the summer.

[JerseyGirl78]

WHY BE JEALOUS?

Jealous of the high taxes? They can pay some of mine - lol.

Jealous of the buckets of snow that drop?

Jealous of the high price to heat homes?



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[HopToIt]

Originally Posted by TNRyan23

We have a few families that relocated here from New Jersey but we're overrun with escaped Floridians. I have an uncle that lives near Concord, NC and he says the amount of Floridians that have moved there is sick. lol

You blame em?

[HopToIt]

Originally Posted by berryjuice4life

OMG so right you are my friend

Its not even funny, when the Northern people get tired of the Northerners we have a problem...ROFL

Yikes, that's bad! But honestly, and you probably already know this, but it gets even worse once you hit S FL. Charlotte cant even begin to compare to S FL when it comes to NY/NJ transplants, and at times, the pushy, aggressive attitudes that come along with em.

No kidding, some of the older NY/NJ folks will literally run your a$$ over with their cart in the grocery store if you are in their way. Some of them are awful! And S FL has a ton of them too!