Is North Carolina liberal? (fit in, house prices, quality of life)

[movin'on]

I've lived in CA for 13 years (always liberal) and AZ for five (mostly conservative). Moving to AZ made me feel as though I'd moved to the bible belt. I am from a state that always votes blue, originally. May be conservative fiscally, but liberal when it come to extending a helping hand, thus liberal overall.

I hear so many good things about NC and how popular it is, but if it's a conservative state, I won't fit in.

Any input is welcome Maybe you can save me the airfare and expense based on your responses. Thank you.

[SunnyKayak]

just because a state votes blue which means a state that voted mostly democrat doesnt make them a liberal

you might want to study voting patterns of the south for the last 20 plus years

[movin'on]

Originally Posted by SunnyKayak

just because a state votes blue which means a state that voted mostly democrat doesnt make them a liberal

you might want to study voting patterns of the south for the last 20 plus years

Thanks, but it's easier and quicker just to ask here, and this is why these forums exist. I actually read another thread and concluded it is NOT liberal. Oh well, one can always hope. Hey, maybe all those Californians moving there jacking up your house prices will turn your state blue I know I had a hand in the soaring prices where I live, after leaving California and pricing people out of their native market here.

Thanks for your input. I'll stay on the West Coast. I know in less than five minutes I would NOT fit in there. Directed at you too, JBB

[movin'on]

Originally Posted by JBB

Glad to help.

Thanks. I just could not live in a place where northerners get called Yankees. Must be some long-standing resentment there that would no doubt muddy the waters and, after all, I was born and raised a Northerner.

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by movin'on

Thanks, but it's easier and quicker just to ask here, and this is why these forums exist. I actually read another thread and concluded it is NOT liberal. Oh well, one can always hope. Hey, maybe all those Californians moving there jacking up your house prices will turn your state blue I know I had a hand in the soaring prices where I live, after leaving California and pricing people out of their native market here.

Thanks for your input. I'll stay on the West Coast. I know in less than five minutes I would NOT fit in there. Directed at you too, JBB

Just curious about your pride in having helped in "pricing people out of their native market"??

[movin'on]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

Just curious about your pride in having helped in "pricing people out of their native market"??

Tongue in cheek I just didn't feel warm and fuzzy in that southern hospitality way after I asked a simple question. Not all of us Yankees are bad, but we do kid around.

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by movin'on

Tongue in cheek I just didn't feel warm and fuzzy in that southern hospitality way after I asked a simple question. Not all of us Yankees are bad, but we do kid around.

Glad it was a joke - otherwise you'd give folks another reason to dislike a yankee

[movin'on]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

Glad it was a joke - otherwise you'd give folks another reason to dislike a yankee

Hmm, it doesn't seem like you need too many more. The only other state I've run across with such a disdain for outsiders is Oregon, but I think that is changing (and it helps if one is not a Californian).

I guess it's hard being overrun by outsiders, but I still don't get this Yankee resentment thing. Does this go back a long way? Sore because you lost the civil war?

[SunnyKayak]

I welcome newcomers and taking advantage of this posistive migration to this state. I moved to a location that was once the state fastest growing cities so that the home Im living in would appreciate greatly in value and will cash out on it soon.

I enjoy reading about individuals and families making life difficult decisions in relocating to this state to start over and hearing stories about how great their quality of life is now. I love hearing how they enjoy our terrain of this state when I often have taken it for granted. I remember when someone once mention the rolling hills and I thought oh the area before mountains and they was referring to the piedmont. As a kid I hated it lol it was a hill I had to climb or get off my bicycle due to the slope was to steep for the limited gears I had on that bike yeah that is it lol really it was my calfs in my legs saying no more.

This year I finally made it to the outer banks out of all my life not visiting there then I realize what everyone has been seeing in this state about how it such american treasure.

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by movin'on

Hmm, it doesn't seem like you need too many more. The only other state I've run across with such a disdain for outsiders is Oregon, but I think that is changing (and it helps if one is not a Californian).

I guess it's hard being overrun by outsiders, but I still don't get this Yankee resentment thing. Does this go back a long way? Sore because you lost the civil war?

Nah, most people here don't mind folks from other places coming here - when they come with a good attitude. A "yankee", or in some severe cases, a damn yankee, is a person who shows up here expecting the whole city to cater to their wants and desires, disrespects the locals by making fun of the way they talk or how they worship, and proclaims ad nausium how the way they did things back in wherever they came from was SOOOOO much better. Yep, we don't much cotton to those kinds of folks - those kinds of folks are yankees.