Worst towns in NC? (Durham, Fayetteville: restaurant, food, trailer)

[Tarheelhombre]

Originally Posted by catchick30

I'd Say Johnston county, redneck, racial, Little growth. I also agree Greensboro is pretty bad. Burlington and Caswell Cnty not too bad. Have visited Ashville Maggie Valley, and I would perfer there over most. Although, I like the Ocean towns too. I'd say if your into real estate Ashville would be good.

Actually, Johnston County is the second fastest growing county in NC, right behind Union County.

[dawg_eat_dawg_wurld]

Although Kinston is number one on the list for worst NC cities. I think they have the best chance of one day turning this around. I have faith in the Global transpark. It WILL take off one day as planned. They only built the place 8 years ago. It takes a while for these things to take off. It took RTP a while to get going as well.

Kinston will be a large city one day. K-town will before any other eastern NC town.

NOT!
I've lived here all my 41 years and have yet to see Kinston become a large city--even one day. If anything, it has regressed. GTP? hahahahaha

[rick0427]

Originally Posted by goblue1231

Just wondering if you ever moved from Det to North or South Carolina. My wife and I are thinking of moving there and have no idea where we want to live. We have narrowed it down to the Raleigh area or Greenville. Any advice?

yeah I can tell you. I moved here from S.E. Ohio. I first went to Greenville then to Raleigh area. (Clayton) I would move back to Greenville tomorrow if my work could take me there. This thread is about the worst towns in N.C. for the money Greenville is absolutely the best place to live in N.C. It is a beautiful town, has a great university there that the town is crazy about it's sports teams especially football. It has fairly good schools, great housing selection, a rather new infastructure, friendly people.It has excellent medical facilities, It,s big enough to have most everything but small enough to get to know people. the beach is a day trip away. The Brook Valley and Winterville areas are where I would suggest you start looking for a place. They are clean respected areas. the small town of Ayden just outside of Greenville is also nice if you don't mind alittle bit of a drive into the main burg. Raleigh on the other hand is the same rat race you have in any other metro area, Clayton is 15 miles out and I wouldn't want to live any closer to the mess.

[rick0427]

Originally Posted by BubbaGourmet

Here's the problem. We have had a dramatic influx of transplants from other places. The population is growing at a pace that is far beyond the states ability to keep up with. It is currently estimated that within 10 years we will be the most populated state on the East coast if people continue to move here from other states. Our Southern culture is RAPIDLY disappearing and, along with it, such things as the laid back atmosphere, the Southern hospitality and the like. The coast (where I have lived for many years) has become pretty bad, the I-40 corridor is going to soon be one big metro area stretching from Winston-Salem to Rocky Mount, the area around Charlotte has grown to unmanageable proportions. If it sounds like I wish people would quit coming here...well...I do. All it does is raise the cost of living (now the fastest growing in the country) and lower the quality of life.
Please, don't consider me mean or hateful but I wish people would either (a) stay where they are or (b) find some other place to ruin.
Sorry...but it is true.

no here's the truth. #1 being laid back ain't all that. you people can't get anything worthwhile done around here. if it wasn't for the 'transplants" that came here and built a world class economy in this state you would be about a Mississippi. believe me all the good things economically in this place were also transplanted you would be sorely missing us if we hadn't of shown up. Don't kid yourself for 1 minute that it would be any other way. Do the research and see how many of N.C.'s largest and best employers are transplants, usually from the north or west. And of the native successful N.C. companies how many are really old companies, nope start ups from the knowledge aquired from the transplants alot of the time. So I really don't think any transplant has ruined anything here by making it the #1 place to live on the east coast. I haven't seen the southern hospitality and I've been here 10 years. And there are plenty of places in this state that you can live your laid back lifestyle and stay out of successful growth's way

[Carolina_native]

Originally Posted by rick0427

no here's the truth. #1 being laid back ain't all that. you people can't get anything worthwhile done around here. if it wasn't for the 'transplants" that came here and built a world class economy in this state you would be about a Mississippi. believe me all the good things economically in this place were also transplanted you would be sorely missing us if we hadn't of shown up. Don't kid yourself for 1 minute that it would be any other way. Do the research and see how many of N.C.'s largest and best employers are transplants, usually from the north or west. And of the native successful N.C. companies how many are really old companies, nope start ups from the knowledge aquired from the transplants alot of the time. So I really don't think any transplant has ruined anything here by making it the #1 place to live on the east coast. I haven't seen the southern hospitality and I've been here 10 years. And there are plenty of places in this state that you can live your laid back lifestyle and stay out of successful growth's way

It is attitudes like yours that gives transplants bad names.

There are many companies here that are home grown. NASCAR for one,and Lowes Corporation. These are big in the Lake Norman area. Wachovia Bank and Nations Bank (which later became Bank of America) are also headquartered in Charlotte and are NC based.

Growth has had its benefits, but has many draw backs. The area of NC I live in which is Lake Norman is seeing growth daily. There is really not one piece of land in this area that is not being developed. The infrastructure such as schools, roads are being pushed past their limits in capacity. We are probably 10 years behind catching up to this phenomenal growth.

As far as businesess locating here, NC is the place to be right now, sort of like Florida or California used to be. In 10 or 20 years once all the green pastures here have been paved over the herds will be off to the next state leaving NC in the lurch like they did to Ohio and Michigan.

[mm34b]

Originally Posted by Carolina_native

It is attitudes like yours that gives transplants bad names.

There are many companies here that are home grown. NASCAR for one,and Lowes Corporation. These are big in the Lake Norman area. Wachovia Bank and Nations Bank (which later became Bank of America) are also headquartered in Charlotte and are NC based.

Growth has had its benefits, but has many draw backs. The area of NC I live in which is Lake Norman is seeing growth daily. There is really not one piece of land in this area that is not being developed. The infrastructure such as schools, roads are being pushed past their limits in capacity. We are probably 10 years behind catching up to this phenomenal growth.

As far as businesess locating here, NC is the place to be right now, sort of like Florida or California used to be. In 10 or 20 years once all the green pastures here have been paved over the herds will be off to the next state leaving NC in the lurch like they did to Ohio and Michigan.

Sixty years ago, NC had 320,000 farms. Now there are less than 50,000.

[JQ Public]

Fayetteville

[Niki]

rick0427,
First you say that people are friendly in Greenville, then you say you haven't seen any Southern hospitality since you've been in NC? Which is it?

There's plenty of Southern hospitality in NC. You may not see it as much in the Raleigh area because of all the transplants, but it definitely still exists in NC.

[marathonali]

Originally Posted by Teressah

I believe you, that is what these threads are for, to be honest and completely helpful for others here. If someone doesn't like what you say...oh well...
We are going to Hickory, to see relatives in Conover, for Thanksgiving! We are checking out: Hickory, Hendersonville, Asheville and Mooresville. Mooresville is as east as I will go.
Asheville sounds like a dream come true, if only my husband could get work there, he's a graphic artist. I do property management work. We have a 4 year old, so a nice suburb/city is important to us!!

I grew up in Asheville and my parents still live in Hendersonville. It's a great place to live, if you can find work.

We live in Wake county now, but only because we left NC and when we were ready to come back we couldn't find jobs in Asheville/Hendersonville.

[bbaily]

Of all the places I have traveled and lived in all over the world nothing is as bad as Star, Biscoe, and any other place in Montgomery County. Living or woking there is more like a sentence than a life. The food, water and air are all poisoned and the people all marry their very close relatives. It is truely the armpit of the universe. Drive through in the daylight and don't stop!!!