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Wife 4 kids and I are making the trip tommorow. Going to check out Greenville and New bern first then head west to Hickory. We are going to be down there for 2 weeks any nice attractions open yet? Or is it still to early? My wife is not to thrilled about going thru NYC on the way down (we live in Maine) The kids are excited but nervous they have never been that far away from home before. I am nervous and excited at the same time. hopefully all will go well and we will see what NC is like then we can come home and put the house up for sale
when you go to new york you will be in and out ith no trouble. no attraction yet open but the weather is going to be real warm. i am in the hickory area and when you get here you will find it a lot like maine. look in the southern parts of hickory like (maiden,denver,catawba, newton,and go out route 10 west of hickory.
Cost of living, taxes, weather, more opportunities for better employment I know the south is famous low wages but in my field the pay is about the same
We love Maine but it is getting harder to live here
thats why we are here from nj. but let me tell you BEST MOVE WE MADE coming here we love it. got involved in a small church and are blendng into the town.
Why bother w/ NYC ? Take I-84 From Mass Pike all the way down to Poconos in PA - Then down I-81 Thru central PA (past Harrisburg & Gettysburg) and thru Shenandoah Valley in VA. Take a left onto I-77 south, Straight into Hickory area. If you hit Charlotte, you went too far.
This route may be of the beaten path & longer than MAPQuest will give you, but you'll find its much shorter (Time-wise) & much more scenic than I-95 thru CT and any road in NJ.
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Wife 4 kids and I are making the trip tommorow. Going to check out Greenville and New bern first then head west to Hickory. We are going to be down there for 2 weeks any nice attractions open yet? Or is it still to early? My wife is not to thrilled about going thru NYC on the way down (we live in Maine) The kids are excited but nervous they have never been that far away from home before. I am nervous and excited at the same time. hopefully all will go well and we will see what NC is like then we can come home and put the house up for sale
That's great bigchuckie! You should check out the Lake Norman area while you are in Hickory maybe you should look into Troutman and Statesville also. Just a thought. I hope you find NC is what you are looking for.
New Bern is a great tourist town with a ton of things to see and plenty of small shops and businesses downtown. There is some new building going on there but not on the scale of the building going on in Greenville.
Greenville is not a tourist town. It does have art museums and stuff like that though. Greenville's downtown is a little harder to find then one would think it should be but there are some nice shops and restuarants there. They've been spending some decent amounts of money on rehabbing the downtown area and are getting ready for a major overhaul of 40 blocks of the city as well as most of the major throughfares.
Greenville's major attraction is the shopping, housing (tons of new houses to pick from), Eastern Carolina University (3rd largest in the state) and a first class medical community.
It is an area in transisiton and it's exciting to see them changing the city from Good 'Ole Boy North Carolina to the shinning star of eastern NC.
The city is getting large and if you don't know your way around it can be easy to miss the best parts.
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