Need info on various areas Please. (Charlotte, Raleigh: employment, construction, schools)
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Wife and I are moving to NC before too long, and have been researching the heck out of the place. We went to Raleigh earlier this year, checked it out, and found it not to be too bad, but not quite our cup of tea. While we were there, we checked out a place in Mebane and discovered that the further west of Raleigh we went, the better we liked it.
We also found a bunch of new communities on the internet, but are kind of stuck there. They seem to be all over the place.
What the problem is, is specific location. We are narrowed down to basically three areas, but have little idea where are the "bad" parts of those areas are, if you get my drift. That's where we need more information. Something like northwest of so-and-so is ok, south is not so good; that kind of thing using the areas around Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Burlington as sort of central parts of the "circles". That also includes the surrounding cities.
Other than kids not being an issue (grown and gone), and the fact that we are looking at new communities, our criteria is pretty much the same as anyone else's. (We actually found a neat community south of Raleigh, but the surrounding area looked as if we would have had to shoot our way in and out).
The idea is to narrow down our choices so when we visit again in a few months we can have a few places to check out, instead of "winging it". Hopefully we can actually pick a place and get construction started then.
Not gonna retire right away. Am pushing 60, but still got a few good ones left. I retired from civil service a few years ago, and lasted about a year before I got bored and went back to work. So retirement is not planned for the immediate future.
I am a construction inspector, specializing in underground utility installation (along with roads, sidewalks etc) and am looking for a place within a reasonable commute of construction sites. I figure that land development for housing developments would be right down my alley, so I don't want to get too far from those types of places. I feel a reasonable commute is about 1/2 hour, give or take a little under the right circumstances.
We are also relocating to NC from NY. Checked out the usual Raleigh, Charlotte, Winston-Salem and Greensboro areas thoroughly. We have decided on Summerfield, which is NW of Greensboro, about 10-15 min. drive away. The area is beautiful, clean and the people were wonderful. We are close enough to Greensboro for shopping, jobs, etc.
Raleigh and Charlotte were a little too crowded for our liking, although they were nice places too. You might want to check out Summerfield, Oak Ridge and Stokesdale. All NW of Greensboro and still affordable, taxes are very reasonable, (coming from NY, anything is more reasonable) and the schools are great, although that doesn't concern you any longer. But you know what I mean.
Take a look at Johnson County which is starting to boom as Wake is getting full.
I say this because it sounds like you want to be where the building is.
If you want to be closer to the mountains Denver is booming.
The eastern part of the state is too hot for us. We put a lot of our search efforts into weather and wound up in Caldwell County which is not a boom town.
Only Denver on this website are CO, PA, IN, IA. Couldn't find one in NC. Where is it?
Also, we checked out the area around Raleigh, including Johnson County (Clayton etc) and, though there is a lot of building going on, we want to be more west. May not be as much building in the other places, but I can live with that.
We are looking around GSO, W-S, Burlington, kind of following highways 85, and 40.
Wife and I are moving to NC before too long, and have been researching the heck out of the place. We went to Raleigh earlier this year, checked it out, and found it not to be too bad, but not quite our cup of tea. While we were there, we checked out a place in Mebane and discovered that the further west of Raleigh we went, the better we liked it.
We also found a bunch of new communities on the internet, but are kind of stuck there. They seem to be all over the place.
What the problem is, is specific location. We are narrowed down to basically three areas, but have little idea where are the "bad" parts of those areas are, if you get my drift. That's where we need more information. Something like northwest of so-and-so is ok, south is not so good; that kind of thing using the areas around Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and Burlington as sort of central parts of the "circles". That also includes the surrounding citdecision.
Other than kids not being an issue (grown and gone), and the fact that we are looking at new communities, our criteria is pretty much the same as anyone else's. (We actually found a neat community south of Raleigh, but the surrounding area looked as if we would have had to shoot our way in and out).
The idea is to narrow down our choices so when we visit again in a few months we can have a few places to check out, instead of "winging it". Hopefully we can actually pick a place and get construction started then.
Any and all information will be appreciated.
Thanks ahead of time.
R
Have you looked into the Davidson, Huntersville, Cornelious and Mooresville area? The lake is here and the close proxiemity to the airport ( Charlotte) is a plus.
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