NC metro areas... (Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro: crime, chapel, home)

[displaced.highlander]

Reposted from another post:

Opinion of a NC native with long NC family roots...

Burlington/Greensboro/Winston-Salem is the "industrial" area of NC
Folks deride the Burlington/Greensboro/Winston-Salem area as "ignorant trash"

Chapel Hill / Durham / Raleigh is the "government and research" area of NC
Folks deride Chapel Hill / Durham / Raleigh as "loony elitists"

Charlotte is the "business" area of NC
Folks deride Charlotte as "stuck-up wannabees"

Obviously these are exaggerated generalizations: Durham has long been known as the crime capital of NC (perceived or real) and is also home to Duke University / Medical School; Downtown Winston-Salem smells like a big cigar from the tobacco facilities and is also the home to Wake Forest University / Medical School and Salem College; etc...

If I had to pick a place to raise a family out of these, it would probably be Winston-Salem.
If I had to pick a place to live as a young single, it would probably be Raleigh.
Chapel Hill and Charlotte would be lowest on my list: too many pseudo-intellectual left-wingers in the former and too many uncaring right-wingers in the latter - (exaggerated generalizations? - maybe...)

Asheville and Wilmington are fiefdoms unto themselves.

Fayetteville, Jacksonville, and Goldsboro are military towns.

[ncisgreat]

Way to go in starting a completely useless and argumentative thread rife with stereotypes that do nothing but serve to insult.

[the Parkies]

I second that. Why did you post, displaced.highlander?

Jan

[ncisgreat]

Originally Posted by ncisgreat

Way to go in starting a completely useless and argumentative thread rife with stereotypes that do nothing but serve to insult.

HAHAHAHA I find it hilarious I got a negative rep point for my post yet the original post is NOTHING but insulting! What a joke! Can't we quit bashing other areas and just enjoy where you live? CHILDISH

[RuralCoastalGuy]

Well, I thoroughly enjoy living where I do and can't be bothered with anyone trying to tell me that some other part of the state is better, simply because they think so and say so. I am where I want to be at this time in my life and think of it as a sort of paradise, but I certainly don't expect everyone, or even most of the folks in this forum, to agree as everyone has his/her own idea of what paradise is. If someone in a post asks about my area of NC I will gladly give them what information I have so they can make up their own minds, but I won't bash anyone else's area as that is not only rude it is sophomoric.