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Funky Chicken: Coal is a dwindling industry; it's all about oil and gas now in WV. When I was living in Raleigh, I constantly heard or saw commercials for advocates of the pipeline in Eastern North Carolina (got to travel with my husband to many of these small NC towns). Both my husband and I agree that anyone who wants to criticize West Virginia from NC as far as extreme poverty levels needs an eye opener - the main advantage NC has is the economy of Raleigh and maybe Charlotte. I have a feeling the pipeline is going to come to North Carolina and it will bring all the positive and negative changes that we have experienced - how you end up perceiving it is perspective. As far as coal being clean, we all know that it's not, but oil and gas has its own set of environmental challenges, as well. All the NC farmers will end up selling out to the oil and gas companies and it will change the landscape and beauty of Southeastern North Carolina even with reparations to the land. It will also put people to work who are willing to work in very laborious jobs (I believe NC's population of legal Mexican immigrants are some of the hardest working people in the US right now and I think they will benefit most from the NC pipeline) and unlike WV coal mining or steel mill culture, which is more like a social/generational brotherhood, there will not be the same mentality with the oil and gas pipeliners most who hail from Texas, Louisiana, Utah, and Alabama, and who will further invade the original culture of NC. Also, like WV, many of them won't pass the drug tests. This is not meant to be critical but more analytical because I have seen it happen here in West Virginia and every state in the USA has that issue. The only difference here is that we had a larger workforce that was used to and trained for that type of physical labor but we also have the same drug problem because of poverty levels that North Carolina is also experiencing. Because of this you will end up with a ton more of outsiders living in your state and it will change the landscape and social norms. SE North Carolina, though, is an incredibly beautiful part of the state and I hope it remains that way as much as possible.
Last edited by HomesweetnotRaleigh; 05-27-2018 at 07:44 AM..
I’m a nc native and dislike raleigh for similar reasons you would of liked Greensboro
Raleigh full of NJ and NYers
You know why NY and NJers leave? Because transplants have increased the population in their home states so much that it's no longer desirable.
So...join the club, you're not the only state to experience this. It's ignorant to complain about people that are getting away from the same scenario. The woe is me the Triangle is the only area to ever experience this attitude is old.
You know why NY and NJers leave? Because transplants have increased the population in their home states so much that it's no longer desirable.
So...join the club, you're not the only state to experience this. It's ignorant to complain about people that are getting away from the same scenario. The woe is me the Triangle is the only area to ever experience this attitude is old.
“It sucks there now so we’re making it suck here†“get over it!!!â€
Growth != intolerable taxes, waste, bloated beaurarcy, union inertia
“It sucks there now so we’re making it suck here†“get over it!!!â€
Growth != intolerable taxes, waste, bloated beaurarcy, union inertia
That’s all their own doing
The "sucking" you're referring to is just a result of increased population. It's not like transplants are coming here and saying "lets make tons of traffic and high taxes that'd be awesome!!!!".
You don't need to go far to remove yourself from what you dislike so much. You don't even need to leave the state if you don't want to.
No where is perfect and you need to decide pros/cons of coming here. Raleigh was never intended to be the next major city and most do not want or wish that. Based on30 years the place has more things to do without the trouble makers of big city Life. The mass exodus from high costs States will only increase and this area has always attracted them.
No where is perfect and you need to decide pros/cons of coming here. Raleigh was never intended to be the next major city and most do not want or wish that. Based on30 years the place has more things to do without the trouble makers of big city Life. The mass exodus from high costs States will only increase and this area has always attracted them.
The costs of accommodating these losers will turn Raleigh into a high cost area and the exodus from here will begin.
Funky Chicken: Coal is a dwindling industry; it's all about oil and gas now in WV. When I was living in Raleigh, I constantly heard or saw commercials for advocates of the pipeline in Eastern North Carolina (got to travel with my husband to many of these small NC towns). Both my husband and I agree that anyone who wants to criticize West Virginia from NC as far as extreme poverty levels needs an eye opener - the main advantage NC has is the economy of Raleigh and maybe Charlotte. I have a feeling the pipeline is going to come to North Carolina and it will bring all the positive and negative changes that we have experienced - how you end up perceiving it is perspective. As far as coal being clean, we all know that it's not, but oil and gas has its own set of environmental challenges, as well. All the NC farmers will end up selling out to the oil and gas companies and it will change the landscape and beauty of Southeastern North Carolina even with reparations to the land. It will also put people to work who are willing to work in very laborious jobs (I believe NC's population of legal Mexican immigrants are some of the hardest working people in the US right now and I think they will benefit most from the NC pipeline) and unlike WV coal mining or steel mill culture, which is more like a social/generational brotherhood, there will not be the same mentality with the oil and gas pipeliners most who hail from Texas, Louisiana, Utah, and Alabama, and who will further invade the original culture of NC. Also, like WV, many of them won't pass the drug tests. This is not meant to be critical but more analytical because I have seen it happen here in West Virginia and every state in the USA has that issue. The only difference here is that we had a larger workforce that was used to and trained for that type of physical labor but we also have the same drug problem because of poverty levels that North Carolina is also experiencing. Because of this you will end up with a ton more of outsiders living in your state and it will change the landscape and social norms. SE North Carolina, though, is an incredibly beautiful part of the state and I hope it remains that way as much as possible.
Isn't it's just a distribution pipeline being installed in the ground which will be done with temporary jobs?
If so, then I don't understand why texas drillers would coming in disrupting life as those towns know it.
If the pipeline is to send what is fracked in NC elsewhere then I would understand your post.
The costs of accommodating these losers will turn Raleigh into a high cost area and the exodus from here will begin.
LOL. You sound like Yogi Berra, "No one goes there anymore; it's too crowded!"
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