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I am a single mother of 2 young boys and recently found a job in Fayetteville. We live in SC now.
Are there good towns/neighborhoods to raise the boys?
Good elementary schools?
Thanks!
Don't live IN Fayetteville. Cumberland County has good schools, but the better ones are out in the county, not in town. Stedman, Eastover, Gray's Creek are all good areas with excellent schools.
Fayetteville has a super low COL so that's the one thing I liked about living there...3br/2ba house with fenced in yard for 650/month...sfh..girlfriend's kids went to Cliffdale Elementary which has been a fine school, the teachers care! They make you pay for a lot of field trips, though...honestly the whole Fayetteville area is pretty depressing...Hopeless Mills, Fayettehelle, Spring Lake, terrible other than the low COL. Wouldn't want my kids to go to high school there, they'd be going with rapists, murderers, burglars, robbers, gangbangers, drug dealers and other degenerates...all the high schools lose at least 1 student per year due to gun violence, some of them as many as 5... Only way I'd move back is for a *really* good job and if I lived in a gated community. Sht pops off anywhere, anytime. Just don't live in any of the cities I mentioned and you might enjoy it.
Fayetteville has a super low COL so that's the one thing I liked about living there...3br/2ba house with fenced in yard for 650/month...sfh..girlfriend's kids went to Cliffdale Elementary which has been a fine school, the teachers care! They make you pay for a lot of field trips, though...honestly the whole Fayetteville area is pretty depressing...Hopeless Mills, Fayettehelle, Spring Lake, terrible other than the low COL. Wouldn't want my kids to go to high school there, they'd be going with rapists, murderers, burglars, robbers, gangbangers, drug dealers and other degenerates...all the high schools lose at least 1 student per year due to gun violence, some of them as many as 5... Only way I'd move back is for a *really* good job and if I lived in a gated community. Sht pops off anywhere, anytime. Just don't live in any of the cities I mentioned and you might enjoy it.
Not ALL the high schools---generalizations can be dangerous. Cape Fear HS has never had a student killed through gun violence. We DID have a shooting in Oct. 2011, but that was a rare thing for Cape Fear, and those 2 kids are incarerated. We had never had anything like that before, and there's been nothing since. Cape Fear is run like a very tight ship and things aren't like that "East of the River."
Not ALL the high schools---generalizations can be dangerous. Cape Fear HS has never had a student killed through gun violence. We DID have a shooting in Oct. 2011, but that was a rare thing for Cape Fear, and those 2 kids are incarerated. We had never had anything like that before, and there's been nothing since. Cape Fear is run like a very tight ship and things aren't like that "East of the River."
Sorry, you're right I should have mentioned I meant schools in the city..71st, Westover, Jack britt, etc
I am a single mother of 2 young boys and recently found a job in Fayetteville. We live in SC now.
Are there good towns/neighborhoods to raise the boys?
Good elementary schools?
I have relatives living in Sanford, NC. One commutes to Fayetteville and lives in the south side of Sanford. The schools are safer than in Fayetteville, and at least average quality. Another lives out in the country in Moore county, and they are satisfied with the schools.
The job is on the SE side of Fayetteville. Very close to Hope Mills. I have been very interested in Stedman.
I don't want too long of a commute in case the boys need anything- sick, etc.
The job is on the SE side of Fayetteville. Very close to Hope Mills. I have been very interested in Stedman.
I don't want too long of a commute in case the boys need anything- sick, etc.
With I-95, you can probably be close to home within 15-20 minutes.
I live 10 minutes from Stedman, oldest daughter just graduated from Cape Fear, youngest is a freshman, and I've worked at Mac Williams Middle School and I work in several of the elementary schools in the district. Have lived here my entire life. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
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