If your only area of interest in North Carolina is being near the beaches, you will find better (more targetted) threads in the
NC Coastal Forum.
Questions like "How are the schools, crime rate?" etc are impossible to answer at the statewide level in a state of 9 million people. There are great schools and bad ones; high-crime areas and low-crime areas. Can you narrow it down some? And it would take forever to list "good neighborhoods" for the whole state--again, can you narrow it down to a specific area? What is your reason, other than surf, for looking at NC in the first place?