Let's Hear More About Lenoir (Blowing Rock: crime rate, tax, living)

[normie]

Google is coming? Suddenly, I am very interested in Lenoir. We're retiring so I don't need a job, bt we like living with computer people and also it's been our experience that wherever Google goes, interesting stores are soon to follow, especially grocery stores like trader joes. Don't know a thing about Lenoir (yet), but on the map it seems to be in the foothills, so it may be a pretty place. I want to know all sorts of things, good and bad. What else is there--who lives there--does it have crime/poverty problems--etc. Also, what's the proper way to pronounce Lenoir.

[mm34b]

Demographic Profile for Lenoir

http://censtats.census.gov/data/NC/1603737760.pdf

Commerce Profile for Caldwell County

http://cmedis.commerce.state.nc.us/countyprofiles/files/pdf/Caldwell_2006Q3.pdf

Approximately half of the county is in the Mountain Region and half in the Piedmont Region.

http://www.geology.enr.state.nc.us/proj_earth/pdf/color_physiography_600dpi.pdf

Highest point in the county - 5,920 feet above sea level.

Local Tax Burden - Below NC's average

http://www.johnlocke.org/acrobat/policyReports/btn2007.pdf

Crime Rate - Below NC's Average

http://sbi2.jus.state.nc.us/crp/public/2005/Publications/2005%20Annual%20Summary%20Revised.pdf

Local Newspaper

http://www.newstopic.net/

Retired Fed?

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by normie

Google is coming? Suddenly, I am very interested in Lenoir. We're retiring so I don't need a job, bt we like living with computer people and also it's been our experience that wherever Google goes, interesting stores are soon to follow, especially grocery stores like trader joes. Don't know a thing about Lenoir (yet), but on the map it seems to be in the foothills, so it may be a pretty place. I want to know all sorts of things, good and bad. What else is there--who lives there--does it have crime/poverty problems--etc. Also, what's the proper way to pronounce Lenoir.

"La nore" is the best way I can tell you to pronounce it

I would definitely give it a look-see. It is more rural but in a pretty area with mountain views. In no time at all you can be up in the mountains themselves by heading up 321 toword Blowing Rock - a place I'd live myself for sure. Lenoir has gone down hill economically in the last decade as the furniture industry has pulled out, but it's in no way a slum or anything. Hopefully someone with more insight into the crime and kinds of people there will chime in and fill you in.

[RaleighRob]

Originally Posted by lovesMountains

"La nore" is the best way I can tell you to pronounce it

I just think about that Edgar Allen Poe poem....Nevermore!!