The Carolinas - which is better or worse and why and did you move back to Long Island? (Babylon: affordable apartments, new home)

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

How about Western NC (the Asheville area) ? Has anyone from Long Island had experience with this part of North Carolina ?

Yes, my sister's best friend lives there. Really cheap place to live in, since they can't charge very high rents or home prices because there are no decent paying jobs. If you make a little above the minimum wage, you can at least afford to rent an apartment (unlike LI). Very beautiful mountain area. A lot of "new age" type people. Large GLBT community.

[nancy thereader]

Large GLBT community

Ummm, I guess I am too old, but what is that? Years ago , during WW 11 Black Mountain College in Asheville was a haven for radicals and ( very) early hippies . Alan Ginsberg and Einstein even taught courses there.

[AlexisT]

GLBT - gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered.

[nirvana6992]

Originally Posted by engineman529

Nirvanna

Right there with you. My wife and I live in Charlotte now for the past 1 year and i cant stand it here. would love to go back to L.I . if we could afford to. Things are so different here. But we are looking at PA right now.

PA seems like a great place. My father moved there and loves it. I'd reccomend renting for a little while atleast until the market get a little better though. Houses are depreciating when they should be appreciating! Have you ever looked in the West Babylon/North Babylon/Lindenhurst area? Very nice area, and affordable housing, I am personally renting for a little while, then I will buy. Also Orange County is very beautiful, if you're considering PA, you should check out that area as well. Warwick and Highland Falls are beautiful towns with good school districts.

[nancy thereader]

IGLBT - gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered.


Ohhhh. In North Carolina ? ? ?

[AlexisT]

It may not be San Francisco, but not everywhere down South is stereotypical Bible Belt...

[engineman529]

Originally Posted by nirvana6992

PA seems like a great place. My father moved there and loves it. I'd reccomend renting for a little while atleast until the market get a little better though. Houses are depreciating when they should be appreciating! Have you ever looked in the West Babylon/North Babylon/Lindenhurst area? Very nice area, and affordable housing, I am personally renting for a little while, then I will buy. Also Orange County is very beautiful, if you're considering PA, you should check out that area as well. Warwick and Highland Falls are beautiful towns with good school districts.

Nirvana never checked that area of Li to live but have been through there and parts are very nice in west bab and lindy especially. not to keen on N bab. though. Thank you for the info

[I_Love_LI_but]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

IGLBT - gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered.


Ohhhh. In North Carolina ? ? ?

Yep. Even though it's a very small city. I saw a TV show about Salem, MA and it said there is a lot of GLBT there too now. (Imagine if it were the old days, the Puritans would have done them in like they did the "witches"!)

Like anything else, I guess people move somewhere and influence their friends/family to move too. So some GLBT were the "pioneers" and moved to places like Asheville and Salem and others followed. Kinda like how so many NY'ers are heading for the Carolinas now (in the past it was Florida). I know a few former LI'ers who were influenced by friends/family who already went there to move down south to be near them.

I have a friend right now who is trying to get her house on LI sold and go to NC. I hope she and her husband and kids will be happy when/if they make the move, although of course I will miss her. I don't think I personally would want to live down there. I think I would find it boring and too hot and humid in the summer.

[nancy thereader]

Well, Western NC is very mountainous and has long springs and falls and moderate winters and summers. At least that is what I have heard.

[AlexisT]

Yep, the mountains (according to an NC friend of mine) are cooler than the Piedmont region (Triangle, Charlotte) or the coast. Still fairly warm, but not as bad. A little like the difference between NYC and the Catskills.