Instead, we bought 1.67 acres of lake-front property on a cul-de-sac on Lake James. Five years later we built a 4,000 sf house, gazebo, and dock. The Lake is fed by a river and two streams from the Blue Ridge mountains.
View from our deck.
Posted on 03/07/2017 8:54:04 AM PST by Celerity
General Q&A about life in North Carolina for the conservative
Western Carolina but avoid Asheville and immediate surroundings. Bad traffic and some weird people.
You could do a lot worse than North Georgia or South Georgia. Just stay away from the large cities. Same for Alabama. North Florida is very conservative. Stay away from Tallahassee and the counties directly West of the Capital.
Tim Tebow was home schooled yet competed in athletics in the Jacksonville area.
North Carolina has experienced a generation plus of Yankees streaming in from the northeast mostly
Into the Piedmont and Asheville and in selected coastal locales
It’s a pity because their viral infection has damaged a once great state and turned it iffy
I was born in Goldsboro and have pals all over the state
Choose wisely where to settle
My daughter spent 8 weeks in an artists community near Asheville this past autumn. It took us weeks to get her “de-programmed,” Ha Ha..
Asheville is a little “progressive.”
I like area around Hot Springs
Go west a bit and you can be a North Tennelinian
Look at Pinehurst and Southern Pines in the middle of the state. We moved here in 2011 from Connecticut. I’m finally Home...
Hot Springs is beautiful and a very cool place, all the hikers coming through on the Appalachian Trail, runs right through the center of town, love it. So, again, of course every nutty leftist, vagabond and wacky wiccan that didn’t land in Asheville landed in Hot Springs, lol.
My mother lives in Swannanoa, my sister in Black Mountain & my brother & his wife live in Mars Hill. I visit my mom in the summer & love, love,love it! Before Swannanoa got a Dunkin Donuts I would always stop in Candler at their DD for my 10 hour trip home. Small world!
NC is purple - stay far away.
And Charlotte is a disgusting liberal trash city.
I hate going there for work. My 2 cents...probably worth less.
My wife and I really enjoy a nice soak in the springs, especially during 'winter', but the town is crawling with libs (proximity to Asheville doesn't help). Lots of sweet property north and west of town, though.
We moved to North Carolina from New Jersey (Philly suburb) four years ago and haven’t looked back.
We made the mistake first of locating to a Charlotte suburb, Waxhaw, but quickly found that it was little New York with a HUGE percentage of relocated New Yorkers living there. A truly miserable bunch.
We then moved to Ashe County, up in the northwest corner of the state and absolutely LOVE it. Very conservative (with the exception of nearby Boone in Watauga county where App State University is). Gun laws are very good. I received my concealed carry within 30 days of applying, you just need to take a gun safety course. You can carry pretty much everywhere except school campuses, government buildings, or in bars while drinking (establishments can post restrictions if they want and you have to abide by them).
Homeschooling is wide open. You just do it. No reporting to any agency, and you can choose any program that you want to teach from. We homeschooled our fourth grader and had no issues. In fact, there are many stores that are setup around the state to provide materials for homeschoolers.
Property taxes are very low compared to the northeast, and home values are much lower. We live on an unbelievable 5 acre lot, with a pond and creek, surrounded by 150 acres of forestland, in a newer 3000 sqft home with a wrap-around porch and we paid $380K for it, with taxes at about $2300 per year.
The state’s politics generally average to the conservative side, but there are liberal strongholds throughout the state, mostly Asheville (a mini-Berkley), Charlotte, Raleigh, and the northeast corner.
Motorcycling is great where I live. The Blue Ridge Parkway is very popular, and we have a lot of very winding, mountainous roads up here in Ashe County that make it a haven for bikers in the summer and fall.
I would highly recommend the move — if you move to the right spot.
If you get invited to a Pig Pickin’, GO! Do NOT say no.
If you are in the Goldsboro area, go to Wilber’s. Everyone should go once.
I love the NC Mountains, but, coastal NC has beauty and great food.
NC is rapidly going hard left. Asheville is the worst - I have been there several times over the last couple of years and have a hard time believing the 50/50 split you mention. Driving through some neighborhoods during the election, I was dismayed to see so many Hillary Clinton signs. More signs than I saw anywhere else in my business travels and that includes the Northeast.
As a Thomas Wolfe fan, I visit Asheville often. (Although the town has forgotten him.) It is very beautiful and has great restaurants although it seems to think it is NYC in terms of art museums and culture. It’s not, lol! It also has a large gay community. We stopped staying at a b&b there because the owner who served bk’fast every morning kept screaming “Fruit plate coming!”
The mountains surrounding it are very remote seeming and I have seen characters out of the Deliverance sitting at roadside eating boiled peanuts. But those mountains are gorgeous. And, you’re right, the art deco buildings are unique.
Instead, we bought 1.67 acres of lake-front property on a cul-de-sac on Lake James. Five years later we built a 4,000 sf house, gazebo, and dock. The Lake is fed by a river and two streams from the Blue Ridge mountains.
View from our deck.
NC is a great, mostly conservative state. We went big for Trump, but the slimy AG was elected governor. Asheville and Chapel Hill are quite liberal, so you may want to avoid those areas. Gun laws aren’t too bad either, I have my CC and went through training with my daughter. Great place to raise a family.
I grew up around there, across the state line.
South Charlotte is about the only area of the queen city that I ever liked.
“I just e-mailed a friend who has moved from Mass. to North Carolina. “
If he moved from Mass to Mogadishu he would be happy.
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