What are the people like in NC? (Raleigh, Welcome: home, living in)

[X-Greensboro Resident]

Bottom line: Overall, North Carolina ROCKS!! North Carolinians along with others who have moved there, GENERALLY, are awesome. You can find negative things anywhere you go, it's how you look at the world that makes the difference. Positive outlook on life brings positive things and NC definitely has it. But if you look for negative things, you'll find it for sure. A negative person would find faults walking on the beach in Hawaii.

[rsmg]

As "friendnc" so eloquently put it, most Southerners have propelled themselves in terms of social consciousness far beyond that which those outside of the South might either embrace or perhaps can even imagine. That's a whole thread or a book unto itself but I agree that it's time to at least hang up the old stereotypes. Most of the South truly has changed and done so in very, very profound ways.

[rsmg]

I suspect that a higher than average percentage of problems in the NC crime stats, etc., involve residents who have been here fewer than, say, five years. Just my suspicion. This is a wonderful area with mostly wonderful people. The area is groaning a bit under the weight of a huge influx of people from the Northeast and the Southeast and is struggling to receive these people graciously and to build infrastructure such as schools to properly provide for them.

As I like to joke, "Now that I have arrived from Florida, let's not let in any more!" Truly, I don't want to see the positive qualities of people in this area diluted by or stressed by a huge influx of people with different values and cultures. I hope that's understood in the positive and constructive light in which it is intended.

[Niki]

Originally Posted by X-Greensboro Resident

Bottom line: Overall, North Carolina ROCKS!! North Carolinians along with others who have moved there, GENERALLY, are awesome. You can find negative things anywhere you go, it's how you look at the world that makes the difference. Positive outlook on life brings positive things and NC definitely has it. But if you look for negative things, you'll find it for sure. A negative person would find faults walking on the beach in Hawaii.

I agree. And what you said reminds me of me and my mom. There have been many times when my mom has been annoyed by what she thought was a slight by someone else and I've been like, "What are you talking about? I didn't notice. They seemed nice to me".

I tend to be a positive person - always trying to look on the bright side and give people the benefit of the doubt. I often make excuses for people in my mind. "Well, maybe they this or maybe they that". Ya know? I hope that doesn't make me seem crazy. lol

[carolinajack]

they have two heads, horns and fly in space ships!!!!

Nope, they are human beings

[Prichard]

Im from southern Ohio,I lived in Nc from 1986 to 2004. I gave it more than a chance,the guy who refered to you as a yankee above is correct,you are a yankee ...

That's just because you are a yankee! Ain't noth'n you can do 'bout that. If it weren't for your boy Lincoln, you'd have to get passport and visa to come visit North Carolina.

[clodhopper]

My father in law calls me a yankee about twice a week. I moved down here from Va. (I like to remind him where the capitol of the Confederacy was)22 years ago. It's a joke people! He believes anyone from North of Rocky Mount is a yankee.....one of his jokes. No one who shows some manners and likes to kid around is going to have any problem with the whole yankee thing. Calling someone a damm yankee is just a way to deal with an obnoxious s.o.b. who thinks they're better than you and who "aint from around here". Could be anywhere, even Rocky Mount! LOL! It's also sort of difficult not to make a generalization when someone shows up in an expensive import, wearing alot of jewelery, wearing a scowl, and tends to drive with one hand on the horn and the other with an upraised middle finger.

If you're a Yankee, be PROUD of it. If for some reason, say maybe someone died, and I had to go up North, I certainly wouldn't be offended if someone called me a sawed off little southern hick! LOL! Be proud of where you are from, but be polite. No way you can have problems down here if you will just do that.

[Velvet-T]

So is it safe to say people in the NC area are religious, private, semi social and accepting of others as long as the others fit their neighborhood? Once you're there, how hard is it to leave?

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by Velvet-T

So is it safe to say people in the NC area are religious, private, semi social and accepting of others as long as the others fit their neighborhood? Once you're there, how hard is it to leave?

Ha! Most of us never leave I came for supposedly 5 years... 18 years ago!

[House Lady]

that there is always a hunkering in of "We's" against the "They's" wherever there are people. I live in downtown Raleigh and we are frequently snobs about North Raleigh or Cary. Cary and North Raleigh have a little "bragging rights" war going on, too. It's actually a very friendly competition, but I guess it has not been going on as long or was as bitter in the past as the North-South thing. It does not have to be geographic, either. Groups are just that, Groups. We all tend to circle the wagons around out particular Chosen Group. Folks, it isn't really all that much different here in good ol' NC. There are some unfriendly or snobby people, sure, but most are very friendly and love newcomers. It's like having company! It's a chance to show and tell new people what we like, where our favorite places are, the fastest way to get somewhere, and so on. People in neighborhoods do not care what you do or are like (including your religion) unless it is something that will bring down their property values. To use an old Southern expression. "Ya'll come!".
PS We do not put shackles on anyone and make them stay.