Just a few miles south of the NC border along the coast:
Posted on 03/07/2017 8:54:04 AM PST by Celerity
General Q&A about life in North Carolina for the conservative
“The recreational opportunities and natural beauty surrounding it have few equals in the eastern US.”
With increased population the serenity of the recreational opportunities has become stressed.
One example. An area I used to explore/hike/camp off of the parkway was accessed via a gravel road which led to a parking area that held about 25 cars. 35 years ago the only time I ever saw the lot full was with hunters during deer season. Meeting people on the trails was occasional, like a few a day.
Today the same area has cars parked on the side of the road for a 1/2 mile before the parking lot and there’s a literal line of people hiking...scores upon scores at at time.
Another example is a secluded swimming hole that was difficult to find tough to get to. Today it’s marked and reviewed on google maps.
I gotta go with The Traveler’s rest area or extreme southern Henderson County, NC. In Traveler’s Rest it’s a 15-20 minute ride into Greenville and maybe 30-45 from the state line area in S. Henderson. Gorgeous country with quick access to employment and shopping.
Jimmy and Coony was good folk!
I don’t know NC at all but after spending three years visiting Charleston, SC several times a year, I fell in love. Great area, friendliest people I have ever met, and you don’t need to be in the closet conservatively. I know that city has its share of libs but it’s really not overpowering at all. (I live in L.A.)
Check it out, original poster.
“Fish hawk mountain”
Wasn’t that the area that had a bona-fide landslide sometime back?
Sounds like where I used to live in Manhattan Beach, CA. On top of huge dunes. No dirt under any of the houses, just sand. What a view.
I have lived all over north carolina from the research triangle charlotte western part. If you like Asheville move to a county north west or south of there. Buncomb county itself is very liberal. I would strongly suggest you look near the Hendersonville area. Near Asheville but nice and conservative. Also brevard.
Of the three Tri-Cities, Johnson City is the most liberal, due to the presence of ETSU. Check the areas south and west of JC...nice rural country; an easy drive from JC in most instances.
Just a few miles south of the NC border along the coast:
“Probably more New Jersey here than New York.”
Hence The University of New Jersey at Durham.
Brevard is horrible! Terrible food, fleas, mosquitoes, bed bugs, snakes, alligators, wild dogs, hillbilly mafia, malaria, dysentery, measles, mumps and rubella, hurricanes, tornadoes, hail storms, forest fires, earthquakes, communist party headquarters, outhouses, road kill, Gila monsters, pythons, mountain lions, bears, vampire bats,....run and don’t ever move there!
This is a great information site: http://www.city-data.com
It gives you information that realtors can’t or won’t give you, like the religious and racial breakdown, of a city or town, average salary, age and sex of residents and even R or D voting patterns.
Damn funny, and surprised the natl association for permanently offended colored people haven’t raised hell. Maybe it’s black owned.
Point I was making is that a tar baby was a home made doll which poor farming folks made for their kids out of molded pine tar— a doll made of pine tar and women would sew small clothes to put on and make hair weave small wigs for the head. Pine tar— as any would know is light amber yellow, and moldable with warmth/heat. There are examples in Smithsonian.
In practical use, the dolls would get dropped in the dirt and gradually take on a dark dirty color. But... they were never made in the image of a black baby, or made out of what we would call asphalt or oil tar (they couldn’t be made that way. It is an abuse of Southern history to ever imply or say that a tar baby was “racist” or “bigoted” or had anything to to with negroes (other than if they were made by and for negroes, in the same way the poor whites made them). This has been yet another bugaboo put together by liberal history re-writers (even showed up as a “hate” claim against someone who had an Indian Black Sambo doll (which, in India referred to a a real black skinned class of people and they have Sambo dolls).
Thanks for posting. Just trying to correct the record, and stop the perpetuation of Southerner abuse (right up there with re-writing history, and removing monuments— just like the communists do and did).
Lexington and Louisville are the liberal cities. If we didn’t have to be near my 95year old mother, we would have moved farther east. Check out Bardstown, too.
“This is a great information site: http://www.city-data.com";
I use this site all the time. My own peeve is that it considers “middle eastern” as white.
Wooo WHEE I hope that’s not the usual prices for this sort of thing down there.
I could get that place in Cornwall CT for less. I’m on 90acres now with a 4 bedroom farmhouse and it’s just alittle more than half that.
I do like that setting though.
Been there many times. Like the area between Raleigh and Spring Lake. Cary etc. I like the beach but they do gt a hurricane now and then nice people
lots of army Spring Lake and fayetteville
Depends upon where you are, like most everywhere else. Not much in Todd but what’s there sure is pretty. Nice sense of remove, end of the world kind of place, but conveniences, dining and entertainment are not really all that far away. People like that with their mountain homes.
Neighboring Wilkes County to the east is much cheaper in general but it’s also not right in the thick of things as far as Grandfather Mountain, ski resorts, etc.
I do wish they would get around that, say by listing the number of churches, the number of synagogues and the number of mosques/islam community centers. Here is a site that shows where “refugees” and “immigrants” have been resettled in Virginia.
http://virginiafreecitizen.com/2016/09/08/islamic-colonization-of-virginia/
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