Why Are So Many People Moving To North Carolina? (Winston-Salem: new home, job market)

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by DesertDave

I don't know why they're moving to NC, but I wish they wouldn't. Need to build a wall on I95 at the stateline.

I think there is a difference in the people who move because they are running away from something and the people who move because they are running to something.

The people who are looking to get away from high costs, bad weather, crime and congestion, for example) are running from that place. In my opinion, they look for improvement over those things and to heck with everything else in the new place. They are the ones most likely to make huge mistakes in overcompensating for what they didn't like about the old location. These would be (for example):

1. People moving to the mountains or rural areas from big cities because they hated the traffic in the big city.
2. People moving to zero seasonal changes because they had a lot of snow in the old place.
3. People moving to Mayberry because there was too much crime in the big city.

Then they get to the new place and they realize going up and down the mountain when there's ice on the mountain, is no picnic, the supermarket that they used to walk to or have a short drive to is miles away, gunfire is common, they are pretty much isolated most of the time, they have to drive 50 miles to go to a play or a chi-chi restaurant, etc. They find no seasonal changes to be boring or Jingle Bells doesn't cut it in shorts. The reason the crime rate is low is because the town has traditional values and is religious and socializes around their church, and since they don't go to church they have (sniff sniff) no friends and whine that no one nearby is as smart and enlightened as they are...forgetting of course, their big dumb expensive relocation decision.

But if you are moving to a place to be near people who think like you do, have the same values that you do and like the things you like, I think you will have less of a tendancy to be that whining pain in the a** from up north (some via Florida) trying to change the town in your image.

I think people should:

1. Make a list of what they LIKE about where they live now (people and things) and look for those things first in the potential new towns.

2. Take the list from Number 1 above and eliminate potential towns on that list that have the things they don't like about where they live now.

As I said, many people overcompensate for what they didn't like and wind up unhappy and making everyone around them unhappy with their carping because they were so busy concentrating on the bad things they wanted to leave behind, they forgot to look for the things in the new spot that have always made them happy.

[Griff]

Well, it's not so much the religion as that everyone there is related. You just don't shoot or rob your fourth cousin, twice removed. I've got family up in Clinton, and you're an oppressed minority if you don't see your surname anywhere. It's really that bad.

[Adream]

Originally Posted by LauraC

I think there is a difference in the people who move because they are running away from something and the people who move because they are running to something.

Wise words! This is what DH and I discuss in our conversations about where we'll relocate to someday. It's not really about what we are leaving and why we are leaving it - it IS about how we envision our lives, what we would like to retain, what we would like to create and the best place to do all of it. That attitude keeps you focused and avoids becoming mired in negativity.

I may have posted this before, but it fits here. This is an old Zen proverb:

An old man was sitting at the entrance of a town. A man came by and asked the old man,
"What are the people like in this town?"
The old man asked him, "What were they like in the town you came from?"
The visitor responded, "They were mean, rude and nasty!"
The old man replied, "Well, that is what you will find here."

Another visitor came by later that day and asked the old man the same question, "What are the people like in this town?"
Again, the old man asked, "What were they like in the town you came from?"
The second visitor responded, "Oh they were wonderful! So nice, friendly and helpful!"
The old man replied, "Well, that is what you will find here."

It's all about attitude, and it starts from inside of us!

[mm_mary73]

Originally Posted by mshay

I BET YOU ALSO GO TO THE RACES, DONT YOU I LOVE RACING DOES EVRYBODY LOVE RACING

Heavens, NO! Driving from above Statesville to Exit 36 to work is enough NASCAR for me (and all those little NTI students driving Hwy150 ). Did meet "The Intimidator" once - he was short.

[Carolina_native]

Originally Posted by mshay

i wont be coming back either, i love racing cant wait to get to mooresville, n.c.

OK...Well you dont have to come to NC to like racing. Mooresville is just a big strip mall. You will see some race shops, thats about it. Concord has the race track, but so do 25 other states.

[Trail Majic]

Originally Posted by ava holiday

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

Maybe you should check out Vermont & NH if you like flies mosquitoes and gnats

[Niki]

Originally Posted by mm_mary73

Heavens, NO! Driving from above Statesville to Exit 36 to work is enough NASCAR for me (and all those little NTI students driving Hwy150 ). Did meet "The Intimidator" once - he was short.

Short?! Really? Wasn't he 5'11"? Seems like I read that somewhere.

[mm_mary73]

Originally Posted by Niki

Short?! Really? Wasn't he 5'11"? Seems like I read that somewhere.

I'm 5'11 - he came to my eyes.

[Niki]

lol Well, I'm 5'0". lol And 5'11" is considered above average. I reckon someone as tall as you are wouldn't seem that tall.

[mshay]

Originally Posted by LauraC

I think there is a difference in the people who move because they are running away from something and the people who move because they are running to something.

The people who are looking to get away from high costs, bad weather, crime and congestion, for example) are running from that place. In my opinion, they look for improvement over those things and to heck with everything else in the new place. They are the ones most likely to make huge mistakes in overcompensating for what they didn't like about the old location. These would be (for example):

1. People moving to the mountains or rural areas from big cities because they hated the traffic in the big city.
2. People moving to zero seasonal changes because they had a lot of snow in the old place.
3. People moving to Mayberry because there was too much crime in the big city.

Then they get to the new place and they realize going up and down the mountain when there's ice on the mountain, is no picnic, the supermarket that they used to walk to or have a short drive to is miles away, gunfire is common, they are pretty much isolated most of the time, they have to drive 50 miles to go to a play or a chi-chi restaurant, etc. They find no seasonal changes to be boring or Jingle Bells doesn't cut it in shorts. The reason the crime rate is low is because the town has traditional values and is religious and socializes around their church, and since they don't go to church they have (sniff sniff) no friends and whine that no one nearby is as smart and enlightened as they are...forgetting of course, their big dumb expensive relocation decision.

But if you are moving to a place to be near people who think like you do, have the same values that you do and like the things you like, I think you will have less of a tendancy to be that whining pain in the a** from up north (some via Florida) trying to change the town in your image.

I think people should:

1. Make a list of what they LIKE about where they live now (people and things) and look for those things first in the potential new towns.

2. Take the list from Number 1 above and eliminate potential towns on that list that have the things they don't like about where they live now.

As I said, many people overcompensate for what they didn't like and wind up unhappy and making everyone around them unhappy with their carping because they were so busy concentrating on the bad things they wanted to leave behind, they forgot to look for the things in the new spot that have always made them happy.

1. ohio sucks

2. n.c. racing

3. racing

4. racing

5. chi- chi's in mansfield burned down 3 different times, maybe because of competion from the other mexican restruant.

6.-infinity. racing and ?no snow? at least 3 feet of the crap.


i love racing