Why Are So Many People Moving To North Carolina? (Cary: transplants, real estate market)

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by stmaarten

SHHH! Don't promote NC too much! (LOL)

You could be right Guess I should quiet my enthusiasm and let the few naysayers here scare everyone away for a while to stem the tide

[cartf1]

Originally Posted by lukeb321

I agree with most everything, but I think there is a lot of "grass is greener" syndrome. I saw that with vegas and especially florida. People were saying this and that are soooo much better than where we live and then well you know the rest. I agree NC has a lot of positives but there are also a ton of negatives. Overall I believe it still a good place to live depending what your willing to give up.

I am thinking of moving to Nc also from NJ....I am curious what are some of the negatives of living in NC....I understand they ar negatives in every state..But I am looking for more of a General longterm or potential future "negatives"

[Mvn2nc]

Originally Posted by mshay

not to mention nc is the racing capital of the world , and the people who want to start their career in racing move to north carolina,

and im one of those people, i am planning on moving to mooresville in the fall of 07 plan to go to the nascar technical institute, and go to a pit crew school, hopefully i can get financial aid 4 nti.
i cant wait

Good for you! My son went to the Nascar Tech. School. After Pit School opened he went through that program ( a year later) and did travel a bit doing pit crew stuff. Now he works for a company that does Pit training.
Good luck

[south.charlotte&union]

Originally Posted by cartf1

I am thinking of moving to Nc also from NJ....I am curious what are some of the negatives of living in NC....I understand they ar negatives in every state..But I am looking for more of a General longterm or potential future "negatives"

Hey there,
We relocated to the south Charlotte area from NY in 1998...here are the negatives as far as I see it:
1) Since I am in the Charlotte/union county area, I am not close to a beach anymore. On the plus side, it means we take at least one trip a year to the beach
2) I want a REAL diner and a good bagel. Every time we have visitors from the northeast all we ask them to bring are bagels. (We just recently got good pizza (Tony's Pizza-- yum yum) in our area, so that's off the list)

I wish I had a crystal ball to tell you the longer term negatives, especially since I am in real estate...the traffic is increasing, but I also have to qualify that: where I live there is traffic during rush hour, but usually NOT at any other time of day. This is big difference from where I lived in NY (Long Island) where it seemed like there was almost always traffic.

Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions. Best of luck!

[NC_Bound]

very simple: booming economy + affordable gorgeous houses = massive immigration.

[mm_mary73]

Originally Posted by ava holiday

I have never seen more flies and gnats than there are in North Carolina.

Well, bless your heart, during the fall, we have massive ladybug migrations,
and in the spring, June bugs (which are Japanese beetles on steroids !).

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by cartf1

I am thinking of moving to Nc also from NJ....I am curious what are some of the negatives of living in NC....I understand they ar negatives in every state..But I am looking for more of a General longterm or potential future "negatives"

Cart, the only longterm negatives I can think of are the continued skyrocketing growth pricing some people out of home ownership and gridlock on the roads. We just don't want to see what has happened in the Northeast and California happen here, though to a certain small degree it already has.

[mhogan10010]

As a former North Carolinian who went the other direction (Back North) I see Five things at work.
1. MONEY - Housing/rent is cheaper.
2. JOBS - Companies relocating to Piedmont because of the MONEY
3. SPACE - There is still room to bulldoze another track of land and build another subdivision.
4. BETTER LIFE - However you define it, it is deeply ingrained in the American Psyche to move, move, move, move. Done it myself. It gets a little old, and you finally realize that anywhere you go there are problems.
5. MARKETING - The development forces are doing a great sell job.

[Grass Is Greener]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

Cart, the only longterm negatives I can think of are the continued skyrocketing growth pricing some people out of home ownership and gridlock on the roads. We just don't want to see what has happened in the Northeast and California happen here, though to a certain small degree it already has.

I agree, the infrastructure as far as schools and transportation is simply not there. Problems like year-round schools and traffic congestion are already starting to happen. The "band-aid" temporary type of problem-fixing is not going to hold over the time, for example the widening of the RT 55 is not going to nearly resolve the problem with congestion in that area. Us, newcomers are being blamed for pretty much all these problems, but what people can't see is that us newcomers pay a LOT of TAXES here and supposedly all this money should be used to setup a better infrastructure.

While I'm in the subject lol, what makes matter worse is the oversensitivity of people here, any criticism is not well received at all, unlike other areas of the country. For example if you go to Boston and tell a "local" that the big dig sucks, they'll simply agree with you. Problems exist and defensiveness sometime doesn't help get them addressed. As they say, the first thing is to admit you have a problem lol.

[mhogan10010]

Originally Posted by Grass Is Greener

While I'm in the subject lol, what makes matter worse is the oversensitivity of people here, any criticism is not well received at all, unlike other areas of the country. For example if you go to Boston and tell a "local" that the big dig sucks, they'll simply agree with you. Problems exist and defensiveness sometime doesn't help get them addressed. As they say, the first thing is to admit you have a problem lol.

That is deep in the collective character of the true Southerner. Since the civil war and reconstruction, they just don't cotton to Yankees (translation, anyone not from the Southeast) giving their opinion. I was a pastor in NC for 12 years. There were some subjects that I couldn't really address, because I was a Yankee. A home boy could say the same thing, and get a totally different response.
I know that this exists everywhere, but I contend that it is most severe in the South.