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I am starting to look into rural areas for moving to in a couple of years. The thing is that I have a black son and want an area that will be safe for him and have a good number of black people around since I am a single mom and am white. I want him to get exposure to the other half of his heritage!
I am looking for a place where a bit of land for homesteading is available, as well. Which always makes things more interesting. I would prefer a more mild climate than the far north of the country.
TIA!
Hello all!
I am starting to look into rural areas for moving to in a couple of years. The thing is that I have a black son and want an area that will be safe for him and have a good number of black people around since I am a single mom and am white. I want him to get exposure to the other half of his heritage!
I am looking for a place where a bit of land for homesteading is available, as well. Which always makes things more interesting. I would prefer a more mild climate than the far north of the country.
TIA!
For some reason I thought of the Chapel Hill, NC area. It’s diverse and might work for you. The Tallahassee area is another idea, it’s a left leaning city with plenty of rural areas further out. Good luck in finding a place to call home.
Hello all!
I am starting to look into rural areas for moving to in a couple of years. The thing is that I have a black son and want an area that will be safe for him and have a good number of black people around since I am a single mom and am white. I want him to get exposure to the other half of his heritage!
I am looking for a place where a bit of land for homesteading is available, as well. Which always makes things more interesting. I would prefer a more mild climate than the far north of the country.
TIA!
Where are you now and when you say rural, are you looking into a small town that is a good distance from a city or one with a literally more rural area with strictly farms and maybe an intersection of businesses?
There are some places in Upstate NY that come to mind(Lyons, Medina, Albion, parts of Sullivan County, rural parts of the Onondaga Central SD outside of Syracuse, parts of Orange/Ulster/Columbia/Greene counties, the Ravena area south of Albany, etc.), but it looks like you want something in the South, I'm guessing.
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For some reason I thought of the Chapel Hill, NC area. It’s diverse and might work for you. The Tallahassee area is another idea, it’s a left leaning city with plenty of rural areas further out. Good luck in finding a place to call home.
Those are decent sized metros, but I'm wondering if a rural area in those metros would work.
Hello all!
I am starting to look into rural areas for moving to in a couple of years. The thing is that I have a black son and want an area that will be safe for him and have a good number of black people around since I am a single mom and am white. I want him to get exposure to the other half of his heritage!
I am looking for a place where a bit of land for homesteading is available, as well. Which always makes things more interesting. I would prefer a more mild climate than the far north of the country.
TIA!
What does your husband think about a relocation? Sorry you are single. Edit lol.
Edit 2, how is your son black if you are white? Did you adopt him?
Where are you now and when you say rural, are you looking into a small town that is a good distance from a city or one with a literally more rural area with strictly farms and maybe an intersection of businesses?
There are some places in Upstate NY that come to mind(Lyons, Medina, Albion, parts of Sullivan County, rural parts of the Onondaga Central SD outside of Syracuse, parts of Orange/Ulster/Columbia/Greene counties, the Ravena area south of Albany, etc.), but it looks like you want something in the South, I'm guessing.
I grew up in WNY (Gasport specifically, maybe 10-15 miles from Medina). For a small, rural WNY town, Medina did have a fairly large black population. They also had some of the "black issues" to an extent-crime, some violence, run-down, untended parts of town. Not too bad though, certainly not to the point of urban, "ghetto" issues. Albion from what I recall had few blacks. Now granted this was nearly 3 decades ago when I moved out, so things could be considerably different now.
Lumberton, NC metro area is the most diverse semi-rural area in the Southeast, but a very impoverished area. Your best bet is to look a bit on the periphery of metro areas that have more jobs like the RTP or Charlotte if you're in NC.
I grew up in WNY (Gasport specifically, maybe 10-15 miles from Medina). For a small, rural WNY town, Medina did have a fairly large black population. They also had some of the "black issues" to an extent-crime, some violence, run-down, untended parts of town. Not too bad though, certainly not to the point of urban, "ghetto" issues. Albion from what I recall had few blacks. Now granted this was nearly 3 decades ago when I moved out, so things could be considerably different now.
As you likely know, many likely came via the migrant farm route to many of these rural areas. Some may work at facilities in the area or local companies as well.
With that said, it looks like they want places with milder weather during the winter.
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