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We had a teacher in the town I grew up in that had visited every state in the United States. This is what she did with her Summers. She told her class that she had never visited a place she would prefer to live more than where she lived in our small town. I am purposely not telling you what that town is, so it will not be overrun with transplants.
North Carolina has mountians, piedmont and coastal plains. There are one hundred counties with at least one small town in each and usually there are two or three towns. The balance between urban and rural is just about 50/50. I saw that published somewhere. Most of the natives are pretty well balanced. LOL
Lots of people cannot imagining living anywhere but their home town, but that is purely subjective, and it has nothing to do with "balance".
Believe me - I am a native North Carolinian and we wish people would quit touting how great it is here. It ain't that great these days b/c we have had this huge influx of transplants. Our taxes are going up and in a few years, they will be as high as the places people are fleeing from.
We call it the Great Northeast Migration . . . and we are pretty worn out w/ it here. People are coming here w/o jobs and the situations are not good.
So anyone who is thinking about moving here . . . please have a job first. Our infrastructures are being strained. We are not recruiting anyone to this state. We would just as soon everyone stay where they are, LOL, unless they are moving here w/ a job or to establish a business.
Well, your thread could get people to not move there. I've always heard that people in NC are nice. That is why I was thinking of moving there with my two children, to give us all better opportunity than we have where we are. But, honestly, your negative attitude towards people that move there really saddens me.
How long do you give it before NC starts to balance out in population growth? I mean the state and cities like Charlotte and Raleigh are already experiencing major problems with this growth. I hope the rumor that NC becomes another Florida isn't true. NC doesn't need those problems.
NC is becoming so "important" because Yankee transplants realize they can get "big cheap houses", "low taxes", and "nice weather." Essentially NC is the "New Florida," and it will likely start to collapse in on itself in another decade or so if current growth trajectories continue while water supplies continue to dwindle. Aren't there more important things to life than "big cheap houses?" If you go on the NJ or NY forums that's all those people rant and rave about. I just don't understand the allure of buying a house that's larger than you need simply because you can.
Oh now ya did it ya gone and told everybody about the big, cheap houses >>only joking
It has to be kept in mind that many new residents are concentrating on a few select areas. NC is a rather large state.
The heavy concentration of these few areas is being pushed and has the growing pains to show for it alright. Will this cause the whole state to collapse? No. Will we be having growing pains in these few concentrated areas for a while to come yet? Yes, I believe we sure will.
Are people discovering areas outside these heavy transplanted areas? Oh sure. But their seems to be a negative misconception on a broad scale about areas other than Raleigh, Charlotte etc. which is being passed on to possible new transplants from recent transplants. And that is allowing these other areas to have a balanced growth without any major repercussions that are being seen within the higly concentrated areas.
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Originally Posted by Rwarky
With a large number of medium sized cities spread across North Carolina with no one city dominating, does this make this state the most well-balanced in the U.S.?
I am not sure if well balanced really can be said one way or another about any state. As so many factors come into play. And each defines their own as to "well balanced".
North Carlolina has always been defined by regions rather than cities. And I would like to see that continue as I do relate to that way giving it a balance.
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How long do you give it before NC starts to balance out in population growth? I mean the state and cities like Charlotte and Raleigh are already experiencing major problems with this growth. I hope the rumor that NC becomes another Florida isn't true. NC doesn't need those problems.
That will not happen look at projected growth map for the next decade same amount of counties that are having higher than the national average equal out in counties that are having population loss. North Carolina is bigger in topography size than florida and Florida most of it center of the state is wet lands.
North Carolina was not a part of the real estate bubble that now is killing the US economy. North Carolina home appreciation has remain at 4 to 6 percent
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If you go on the NJ or NY forums that's all those people rant and rave about. I just don't understand the allure of buying a house that's larger than you need simply because you can. 
ya gone and told everybody about the big, cheap houses 
>>only joking 
