To all those seeking to live in NC, what exactly is it that you are after? (Charlotte: townhome, agriculture)

[NYC2RDU]

On the quantative side:
- more affordable housing (I can buy a home in NC for 1/3 the NY price)
- lower cost of living (gas is cheaper ($.25 per gallon) fast food is cheaper...)
- warmer weather (as I write it's in the teens in NY)
- less congested (shocking to indigenous NC-ers but still true)

On the qualitative side:
- slower pace (slower doesn't mean slow)
- family values (too many latch key kids where I'm coming from)

Expectations are that what we (or anyone) put into being in NC is exactly proportionate to what we'll get out of the experience. A better life is not automatic and cheaper housing is only relative in the end to what your income is at any point in time.

[Shea]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

wow....this is the only place that has jobs, affordable housing and "acceptable" weather huh? I guess the country as a whole is screwed then.

Wow I hope that was meant to be a funny friendly comment Wouldn't want ppl planning on moving here to think we are anything else than right neighborly

[Shea]

Originally Posted by NYC2RDU

On the quantative side:
- more affordable housing (I can buy a home in NC for 1/3 the NY price)
- lower cost of living (gas is cheaper ($.25 per gallon) fast food is cheaper...)
- warmer weather (as I write it's in the teens in NY)
- less congested (shocking to indigenous NC-ers but still true)

On the qualitative side:
- slower pace (slower doesn't mean slow)
- family values (too many latch key kids where I'm coming from)

Expectations are that what we (or anyone) put into being in NC is exactly proportionate to what we'll get out of the experience. A better life is not automatic and cheaper housing is only relative in the end to what your income is at any point in time.

So very true... I hope to welcome you and yours soon!

[Shea]

Originally Posted by jadbad2004

Well said NJ mom! Last time I checked I lived in the USA, and I was disabled serving my country, and should hope that entitles me and ANYONE else to move wherever that may be that makes us happy. So this damn Yankee is coming whether I am wanted or not. It is my one opportunity to live near my only sister. So I hope at least one native will welcome me in from a very cold Ohio winter. Peace to all and well wishes!

I for one welcome you.... I am originally from the north and moved here 9 yrs ago. I love everything about it here and plan on drawing my last breath on this Mtn. You will find winter is almost non existent compared to where I am from and being snowed in for 5 days at a time! UUgg I do not miss it!

Hope ya enjoy NC and all it has to offer!

Shea

[jadbad2004]

Originally Posted by Shea

I for one welcome you.... I am originally from the north and moved here 9 yrs ago. I love everything about it here and plan on drawing my last breath on this Mtn. You will find winter is almost non existent compared to where I am from and being snowed in for 5 days at a time! UUgg I do not miss it!

Hope ya enjoy NC and all it has to offer!

Shea

Thank you so much I sure appreciate it. I'm nervous enough about relocating, but not to be welcome frightens me. Thanks for the uplift.
Beth

[Carolina_native]

At the LEAST, please support the home team when you move here. It was down right embarrasing when the Philadelphia Eagles played the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte last time. There were more Eagles fans than Panthers. It was as if the Eagles were playing at home! When the crowd roared, you would have expected the Panthers to have made a touch down, but it was the other way around.

The announcers even commented on it several times, one claiming that "the Eagles fans are very loyal and travel with the team." That was false, the fact was most of the Eagles fans lived here.

[Miker2069]

Originally Posted by Carolina_native

At the LEAST, please support the home team when you move here. It was down right embarrasing when the Philadelphia Eagles played the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte last time. There were more Eagles fans than Panthers. It was as if the Eagles were playing at home! When the crowd roared, you would have expected the Panthers to have made a touch down, but it was the other way around.

The announcers even commented on it several times, one claiming that "the Eagles fans are very loyal and travel with the team." That was false, the fact was most of the Eagles fans lived here.

I'll definitely be cheering for the Panthers next fall. It takes a good season or two to get your previous team on the back burner mentally...

[jadbad2004]

Carolina native...I very well will support the Panthers, I rather like them anyways. Plus my sis is real thrilled about me relocating to the area. My hubby already doing count down as to how many days left at the bakery he currently works, hoping to get into Sara Lee there with his yrs of experience here, and hoping to find that quiet, peaceful life I'm looking for.

[spunky1]

Originally Posted by cornbread

Thanks for your concern about my bubble, but you need to get used to my point of view if you're coming here. There's a lot more here that feel the same way. (oh, and you Yankees should work on your spelling - "comming")

Cornie, I too will move to the Western NC for the rural lifestyle and beauty of the mountains, the opportunity for hiking, backpacking, and other outdoor recreation. I have been enjoying the mountains there for many years and I feel I have an appreciation of the area. I think it is YOU that had better get use to the people who are moving there. I, and many others will move there inspite of attitudes, and yes, people like you. There are plenty of warm neighborly people who will welcome nice people and good neighbors. Of course there will probably be plenty of people like you who resent what they feel as the invasion. Funny though, people have been moving to Florida for years and people here do not feel resentful or upset about it as some in NC do.

[bundydad]

Originally Posted by Carolina_native

At the LEAST, please support the home team when you move here. It was down right embarrasing when the Philadelphia Eagles played the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte last time. There were more Eagles fans than Panthers. It was as if the Eagles were playing at home! When the crowd roared, you would have expected the Panthers to have made a touch down, but it was the other way around.

The announcers even commented on it several times, one claiming that "the Eagles fans are very loyal and travel with the team." That was false, the fact was most of the Eagles fans lived here.

Are you relying on newcomers (mostly northerners) to cheer the panthers at their stadium when the natives are sitting home? Many diehard fans travel to away playoff games if tickets can be bought. I guess there were plenty at the box office for the Eagle fans. Go NY GIANTS and NY YANKEES