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bethanyhellen I am amazed at how rude some posters are on here! NC has a huge supply of northern transplants which constantly upsets the locals. If you are from a small town moving to Raleigh, Greensboro will be a big shock with growth everywhere.May I suggest Wilmington, Myrtle Beach? It can get quite humid in the Carolinas but there is a/c. The mountains near Roanoke Va tend to be cooler in summer but humidity is everywhere around here! ONT="Arial Narrow"][/font]
Shouldn't we nail down general areas we want to look for jobs first? I imagine looking for a job throughout an entire state would be difficult! :s
That's basically what people are telling you--narrow your search to a specific part of the state; we can't tell you what part suites you for your preferences or your job market. If you don't know anything about the state, you can learn a lot just by Google, Wikipeidia, the city pages here on City-Data (as opposed to the forum), etc. Keep a list of the places that sound the most like what you're looking for and then come back and ask about those places.
Asking "Where should I live in NC?" is kind of like asking "Where should I live in Michigan?"--no way to answer without more specificity.
I'm surprised that Asheville hasn't been mentioned. No, it's not near the coast, that's the one thing that doesn't seem to fit what the OP is looking for. I am from Michigan originally (many years ago) and think it's a beautiful state once you get up north. The one thing I remember are the biting flies. Yikes! But the dunes and the water are beautiful.
We are in the research process ourselves... We're looking at coastal NC/SC. We're from the coast of northern New England & have had dozens and dozens of friends/family move to the NC/SC. I hear natives are not that welcoming, which is weird, b/c - why not? Just b/c someone isn't born there, doesn't mean they can't appreciate & desire to live in other states. New England is full of people who relocate b/c of schools/work.
Anyways! I have several friends from Maine/NH/MA. that have moved to the Apex area of NC & love it! I also have friends that have been happy in Charlotte. I need to be by the ocean, so that doesn't work for me. But if you also look up "US News - Best places to live" or other similar rankings, they will help lead you in the direction you may want to go.
I think the North Carolinians who have been here their whole lives are actually fairly welcoming, but you really can't compare people moving to New England and people moving to NC. NC has had tons of people moving here in the past several decades — just gobs and gobs of them. You might be a little overwhelmed, too, if it happened to you. Nobody moves to New England like that.
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I think the North Carolinians who have been here their whole lives are actually fairly welcoming, but you really can't compare people moving to New England and people moving to NC. NC has had tons of people moving here in the past several decades — just gobs and gobs of them. You might be a little overwhelmed, too, if it happened to you. Nobody moves to New England like that.
Are you kidding? Of course New England has a lot of people moving into their states. I'm not sure how you define "gobs and gobs" but Boston alone attracts a large number of outsiders in part due to its large number of prestigious universities and in part being a major city in the US. And parts of Connecticut as a suburb of NYC also receives lots of outsiders. Of course, North Carolina in recent years has been one of the top states for transplants to move to. But for a large part of US history, New England, particularly Boston, has been a large receiving state, especially for foreigners. And there are still hundreds of thousands of people who move to New England each year.
Are you kidding? Of course New England has a lot of people moving into their states. I'm not sure how you define "gobs and gobs" but Boston alone attracts a large number of outsiders in part due to its large number of prestigious universities and in part being a major city in the US. And parts of Connecticut as a suburb of NYC also receives lots of outsiders. Of course, North Carolina in recent years has been one of the top states for transplants to move to. But for a large part of US history, New England, particularly Boston, has been a large receiving state, especially for foreigners. And there are still hundreds of thousands of people who move to New England each year.
Its not even close. From July, 2014 to July 2015, Massachusetts had a net in-migration of less than 22,000. NC had over 120,000. Maine, Vermont and CT lost population during that time.
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Its not even close. From July, 2014 to July 2015, Massachusetts had a net in-migration of less than 22,000. NC had over 120,000. Maine, Vermont and CT lost population during that time.
I didn't say a lot of people don't move out of New England; they do. But a lot of people move to New England each year, regardless of how many also move out. And the comment was about how welcoming New Englanders are to new people in their states. Massachusetts alone had 66K foreigners move to their state in 2014 as well as 80K out-of-state people. I think New England is used to lots of people moving to their states.
Boston does attract people, sure, just like any big city, but it's still not close to the influx that NC has seen.
The population of New England is not growing at the leaps and bounds rate that North Carolina and the South region is. Massachusetts is growing the fastest and that's less than 1% a year.
Massachusetts is no boom state. But it’s no Maine either.
According to new US Census Bureau estimates released this week, Massachusetts’ population grew by 0.72 percent between the summer of 2012 and the summer of 2013, outpacing every other state in New England. Maine was one of only two states in the country to lose population.
From July 1, 2012, to July 1, 2013, Massachusetts grew by 47,521 to a population of 6,692,824.
That put the state’s growth rate squarely in the middle of the national pack — 25th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to Robert Bernstein, a US Census Bureau public affairs specialist.
But regionally, Massachusetts was the leader, with the other five New England states all ranking in the bottom 10 nationally in growth rate.
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Boston does attract people, sure, just like any big city, but it's still not close to the influx that NC has seen.
The population of New England is not growing at the leaps and bounds rate that North Carolina and the South region is. Massachusetts is growing the fastest and that's less than 1% a year.
Again, that's because so many people are leaving the New England states. They are still receiving a lot of people; they just have a higher ratio of people moving out, too. But they still have quite a number of newcomers - from other states and countries - moving there each year. That was my point. You said that "Nobody moves to New England like that." And I was refuting it with the fact that a lot of people do move to New England states, so they are used to having newcomers from all over. Whether they are more welcoming to newcomers than North Carolinians are, I do not know, as I have never lived there.
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