Who else is moving to North Carolina? (Florida: jobs, sick)

[lakeman]

homeward bound, you described NC to a T. Your points are what I was trying to explain as a better quality of life in NY. Good post.

[lakeman]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

Yeah, you pretty much hit the nail on the head.... hey, is the "lake" in your name by any chance refering to Lake Ontario?

No, although I have fished on Ontario a few times. I used it because I have always lived on or near a lake. In NY we had a place on Rushford Lake which is south of Rochester.

[Phish Head]

Ahhh Ha Ha Ha. I laugh at all of you who want to move to North Carolina. Keep your bags packed, don't bother unpacking, you'll be needing them for the return trip. Especially those who live upscale, urban lifestyles. You are all sheep. I love to see the Lexus with NY plates, the fake tanned NY woman, her dirtbag NYC lawyer husband, getting into an argument with a good ol' boy in the parking lot, him with his pickup truck with gun rack. He may spit some chewing tobacco on your $800 Armani shoes, NY'ers, but you can always sue him and get the rights to his trailer.

Wait till you see the artificial lakes so polluted you can't swim in them, the smog that is deforesting our trees, the mosquitoes, the humidity that feels like a giant dog is breathing on you. But don't worry, Long Islanders, the Williams Sonoma has air-conditioning. Like good NY pizza and Chinese food? It might take a while for the chinese guy on his bike to deliver Chow Mein from NJ to NC, because thats how close the nearest good Chinese food is. Or the pizza that is Prego sauce on cardboard. High quality food here is always available at Red Lobster.

Sheep.

[bundydad]

Originally Posted by Forrest Gump

Ahhh Ha Ha Ha. I laugh at all of you who want to move to North Carolina. Keep your bags packed, don't bother unpacking, you'll be needing them for the return trip. Especially those who live upscale, urban lifestyles. You are all sheep. I love to see the Lexus with NY plates, the fake tanned NY woman, her dirtbag NYC lawyer husband, getting into an argument with a good ol' boy in the parking lot, him with his pickup truck with gun rack. He may spit some chewing tobacco on your $800 Armani shoes, NY'ers, but you can always sue him and get the rights to his trailer.

Wait till you see the artificial lakes so polluted you can't swim in them, the smog that is deforesting our trees, the mosquitoes, the humidity that feels like a giant dog is breathing on you. But don't worry, Long Islanders, the Williams Sonoma has air-conditioning. Like good NY pizza and Chinese food? It might take a while for the chinese guy on his bike to deliver Chow Mein from NJ to NC, because thats how close the nearest good Chinese food is. Or the pizza that is Prego sauce on cardboard. High quality food here is always available at Red Lobster.

Sheep.

Gump, make plenty of room for the Islanders they are a coming.

[BASIC]

Forest Gump,sir,your right.The same people that are making a mess out of NC and SC have messed up rural NJ,they move in with their ideas how things should be done and try to make it like where they came from.While we may or may not move South,I wouldn't have the bad manners to try to change things.Think if you were a quest in someones home,would you start changing things and making them "better"?I may come from NJ but I'm a pick-up driving,blue collar redneck,I say yes sir and no ma'am.I'm sure the good ol'boys in NY don't like what your doing to their area either.

[BxRosie]

We went to the Charlotte area 3 times to look around before buying in a subdivision in Mooresville (Iredell county). All I know is that I'm getting more for my $$ in NC than I am in NY. I have an old, small house in need of repairs that I'm being out taxed of because of all the new mansions that are going up around me. Services are minimal & the schools are way overcrowded. In NC, I'm getting more house that's new, better services & a child that's entering a HS only a few miles down the road. I can afford to live a comfortable, good life in NC on an NYPD pension. Can't do that in NY without having to still work a F/T job.

Everyone I've had the pleasure of meeting in NC has been more than helpful & gracious to us, very warm & friendly. My new neighbors next door are from NJ & lots of people in the subdivision are from LI & upstate NY (retired FDNY & NYPD) We are very happy with our decision to move there come August. BTW...go to Brooklyn Boys in Mooresille for EXCELLENT tastes-like-NY pizza! No cardboard with prego sauce there!

[I'minformed2]

NC is overrated.... it might take you 11 years to figure that out like it did me, but you will. I'm not saying it's not the right thing for you or for anybody. But it's definitely overrated. Like, EXTREMELY overrated. And I seriously started to laugh out loud when you mentioned overcrouded schools. NC is to overcrouded schools as Long Island is to people with the last name Romano or taable possessions.

[Weis02]

Those moving back to NY are NOT coming back to LI, there is a huge difference between the upstate area of i'minformed and lakeman to LI, so remember the costs up there may very well be less than NC...I have yet to see anyone from LI that has moved to NC return because they A-cannot afford to and B-from what I've read - do not want to...while this feud goes back and forth, I know many people who would like to stay here on LI but cannot afford to, many of no choice to leave due to the high costs - eveyone keep in mind the views expressed here in any area are limited to those of us on the forum...(we are a small few) ask 10 people, you will get 10 different opinions, we all must keep that in mind ..

[lakeman]

Something else is the produce in NC. The fresh vegetables eg.(corn, tomatoes, strawberries) you get from the local farmers markets and roadside stands, taste like the stuff you get at the grocery store in winter.

[I'minformed2]

People don't want to hear the truth if it's not what they invision to be so. A lot (not all) of the people moving down here really don't see any problems. Many just believe that everything will be better once they move south and escape the evilness that is the northeast. If they were to take a reality check they'd realize that as with everthing, there are tradeoffs..... depending on the individual, some can be worth it, while others are not. For me personaly , AFTER moving and living down here for a long time, I realized the tradeoff of not being near family was most definitely NOT worth it, and that's why I'm moving back.