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Yeah, not a lot of what you are looking for on the east coast of the US really, never mind NC. Maine has it, but that is all that really comes to mind. The west coast has a lot more options. Well, maybe not in that price range.
The easternmost area of mountains would be around Mt Airy/Pilot Mountain and Hanging Rock almost due north of Winston-Salem, about 250 miles to the beach, or around the Uwharrie Mountains (small, old mountains) near Asheboro, about 200 miles from the beach.
Thank you. That's what I figured. I just wasn't sure if there was an area more in-land with some mountain but still close enough to the beaches. Definitely one or the other. I have a lot of deciding to do!
Or, find somewhere that the mountains are closer to the beach, but that won't be in the Southeast.
As for crime, I'm not sure what you're comparing it to, but nobody would call us a high-crime state. Most cities had a few "bad areas" but that is true of every city. Where are you getting your crime info?
I wouldn't go just by crime rate statistics. Much of NC was built as the "other side of the tracks" typical of the South. So much of the crime is localized, especially in places with older public housing. Wilmington is a great example of that. There are a handful of neighborhoods that would be considered unsafe but 95% of it is safe. Guess where 95% of the crime happens?
Additionally when you look at eastern NC, you are talking about relatively low population areas, which reflects a higher crime rate because crime rates are based on population.
Pretty much all of the coast is safe and there are pockets of problem areas in some small towns.
As for the mountains, I would explain it this way...there is a mountain region furthest west, then a piedmont region, a pine forest region, and then the eastern coastal plain region that leads to the barrier islands. I added the pine forest region which stretches the I-95 corridor through Fayetteville and into Pinehurst because its really not the Piedmont, which has the population centers.
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