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07-29-2006, 01:59 PM
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What's in North Carolina?
I've been reading alot about people who relocate to NC but I never really understood why they do it. I mean why not Virginia or SC or TN? What makes NC so special?
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07-29-2006, 02:12 PM
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What isn't in North Carolina? 
People are moving to Tennessee and South Carolina too. Virginia has an inflated real estate market in much of it. |
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07-29-2006, 02:27 PM
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Good question. In my opinion, it's no one thing, but a combination of "quality of life" factors. You can always find a better state than North Carolina for any one factor such as jobs, housing, schools or taxes, but you may not find many states that have an acceptable level for all of the factors one normally considers when deciding which state to call home. Regardless of what you're looking for, you can probably find it somewhere within NC. Just not all in the same spot.
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07-29-2006, 02:44 PM
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The real reason; Money Magazine told them too. NC is a nice place to live, but all the hype over it lately stems from magazines and websites just essentially saying "NC is the best state". Again; it's nice. but OVERRATED. for sure.
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07-29-2006, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by i'minformed
The real reason; Money Magazine told them too. NC is a nice place to live, but all the hype over it lately stems from magazines and websites just essentially saying "NC is the best state". Again; it's nice. but OVERRATED. for sure.
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Money magazine, and every other magazine has put cities in other states above cities in NC in every ranking that I have ever seen. I have yet to see NC ranked as best state or any city in it ranked #1.  |
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07-29-2006, 03:53 PM
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It is almost always in the top 10. It was just ranked as one of the best cities for singles; a stat that was posted on this forum. The best was 2 or 3 years ago when the News&Observer posted a story saying that some agency had just rated Cary "The Hottest City on the East Coast". I got a kick out of that one because they provided no data points or even what it really ment to be "the hottest city". And I thought I was on your ignore list T.S?
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07-29-2006, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by i'minformed
It is almost always in the top 10. It was just ranked as one of the best cities for singles; a stat that was posted on this forum. The best was 2 or 3 years ago when the News&Observer posted a story saying that some agency had just rated Cary "The Hottest City on the East Coast". I got a kick out of that one because they provided no data points or even what it really ment to be "the hottest city". And I thought I was on your ignore list T.S?
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Yes, it usually has something in the top 10, but a couple other places also usually rank above it in the top 10 and they are not seeing nearly the same growth. So "because money magazine told them too" doesn't really explain it.
I cleared my ignore list recently.  |
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07-29-2006, 04:18 PM
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I thought he was asking about the state of NC in general, not any particular location within the state? God knows, if I was living in the Raleigh Metro Area, I would be gone in a heartbeat.
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07-29-2006, 04:28 PM
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I thought that was where you lived mm34b? Or do you actually live around Lake Norman?
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07-29-2006, 04:32 PM
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I thought that was where you lived mm34b? Or do you actually live around Lake Norman?
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Twenty-five miles south of Asheville. |
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