Who else is moving to North Carolina? (New York, Utica: landscaping, transfer)

[NewToYorkSC]

Originally Posted by yankee_stay_home

my all means STAY AWAY FROM THE SOUTH!

Well how nice and welcoming of you!! NOT!!!

I moved here from NY 6 mos ago. Best move so far. We are doing better financially then we were in NY, are in the process of building a house - something we would NEVER had been able to do in NY.
Yes I am homesick for my friends...I will be the 1st to admit that. Leaving them was HARD, but this is the best move for US!!
Pizza...good pizza I do miss.
Weather...it has been great! I know the summer will be HOT, but that what central air is for.

I'm happy with my move!!

[smalltownusa]

Originally Posted by salatheel

Upstate Ny only has good weather 3-4 months of the Year! You can keep your feet of snow with your thousand in oil bills!!! Fact of the matter is around 7-8 months of the year in the Carolinas the high temp is in the 50's,60's,or 70's.

There's a wrong asuumption: this year, we experienced the warmest winter on record and had no snow until late January and it was gone by March....a few more flurries will fly but yard work has begun and things are blooming....what you're not remembering is when you NC-ers are hiding in your houses from May until September because of the heat/humidity, you are basically prisoners of your own weather..........tit for tat: do you like heat or cold?

[monick]

im not going to nc i really think the south is kind of boring and a know where to go and not like stores in ny and most of your friends stay up north and people probley want understand what we are saying like our friends in new york so thats why im not moving to nc

[smalltownusa]

Originally Posted by carolina moon

No stickers or races sorry...I am a transplanted Brit residing in SC maybe I will try You uns hows that lol. Places in NY I have spent some time......nyc long island. See you should never make suppositions lol . By the way strange how many are moving down south whats wrong up north ?

Comparing NYC/LI to the rest of NY is like comparing a desert to a rainforest.....two ENTIRELY different animals but leave it to a southerner to lump the whole state into the city...I've always been surprised when sharing that I'm from NY with an out of stater, they come back with "How is it living in NYC?"......try looking at a map please....lol....

An UPSTATER (as is in not from NYC)

[friendnc]

Prisoners in our homes in the summers I nearly fell in the floor laughing! We, as with most of NC residents, are out and about year 'round, especially in the summers. LOTS of things to do. I'm in the Charlotte area, and the heat is not that big a deal at all. I've been to NYC many times (great city), and it many times is hotter and more humid than Charlotte, due to your seaside location. Intersting thread!!!!

[smalltownusa]

[quote=friendnc;532689]Prisoners in our homes in the summers I nearly fell in the floor laughing! We, as with most of NC residents, are out and about year 'round, especially in the summers. LOTS of things to do. I'm in the Charlotte area, and the heat is not that big a deal at all. I've been to NYC many times (great city), and it many times is hotter and more humid than Charlotte, due to your seaside location. Intersting thread!!!![/QUOTE]


Have family who moved to Raleigh a year ago and are planning to move back DUE to the high humidity and oppressive heat plus once a Yankee always a Yankee lol..if you're a native you're most likely acclimated to it just as we are to are cold.....as for interesting thread, the most interesting observation for me is people continually referring to NYC/NY state as one in the same.....please pull out an U.S. map and note that there is a whole lot of NY that is not NYC, both geographically and economically...I'm in the Rochester area and as I said, we just had our warmest winter on record, no snow until January ...our winters are nothing like they were in decades/centuries of past but our reputation is steeped in horror stories of snow that starts in Oct and ends in June.....my husband and son wish: they never got skiing this year as the real snow never hit until late January and they were on to other things by then .......

Anyways, there is no telling why people move back to "home" like they do but I just had two sets of friends move back to upstate NY; one from Tucson and one from Myrtle Beach......and although we are looking at them like they are nuts as we hear over and over the utopia both those places are and NY is so awful, they could not wait to get back to NY......go figure!!!!

[vicarian]

http://pics.city-data.com/w2/hum15227.png
http://pics.city-data.com/w1/lha15227.png

data for Charlotte- high temp from May-Sep curves from 76 to 91 back down to 76. Humidity is about 55-60 percent.

http://pics.city-data.com/w2/hum14808.png
http://pics.city-data.com/w1/lha14808.png

New york- average temp for May-Sep is 68 to 82. Humidity is about 60 percent.

friendnc, your comment is factually incorrect. Look it up if you don't believe me. Besides that, dewpoint is what makes it feel terrible. A summer dewpoint in NYC is between 56-68 (simple math- for every ten percent less, dewpoint is three degrees lower than temp. 100 percent at 65 is 65, 90% is 62, 80% is 59, etc.). It's uncomfortable at its worst. In Charlotte, it's 63-78. Anything about 70 is considered oppressively uncomfortable.

Secondly, a seaside location allows for a maritime effect- temps are lower than inland areas, not higher. Not to mention the more northern latitude. Humidity is higher, yes. But temperature is often a bigger factor than humidity.

So, two incorrect statements. I appreciate your input, but if you cite false information, expect to be corrected.

[BigHouse9]

Originally Posted by friendnc

Prisoners in our homes in the summers I nearly fell in the floor laughing! We, as with most of NC residents, are out and about year 'round, especially in the summers. LOTS of things to do. I'm in the Charlotte area, and the heat is not that big a deal at all. I've been to NYC many times (great city), and it many times is hotter and more humid than Charlotte, due to your seaside location. Intersting thread!!!!

You must have a high tolerance for heat as the summers here are BRUTAL. You are truly trapped in your house for July and August!!!! The 30+ days in a row over 90 last summer are evidence of that. Lawns wilt and pools are packed. I miss the beautiful NE summers!

[crsh112]

I am about to graduate from college i n May and my fiance and I are desperatley wanting to move to North or South Carolina and I was wondering how easily it would be to find a job or what web address do I go to to find a job. I will graduate with a special education degree and he has an operations management/informations sytems degree. Can anyone offer any suggestions ? Thanks
Chris

[smalltownusa]

I miss the beautiful NE summers!

We do have some beauties here and as someone posted, the sky is bluer and the clouds fluffy than anywhere he had ever been. The summers when it never hits above 80 degrees are perfection, IMO: no need for AC, windows open at night and swims in the pool actual cool you off and not have you dripping in sweat as you dry off.

But humidity? That feeling of everything sticky makes me CRAZYYYYYYY when it hits here. And I hate being in a house with AC on 24/7 because it makes me feel so disjointed from what's really going on outside. But as as with anything, it's personal choice: the cold/snow/fireplaces of the north or the heat/humidity/ACs of the south.......