Posted on 03/07/2017 8:54:04 AM PST by Celerity
General Q&A about life in North Carolina for the conservative
Real question: were there any broadheads in the trunk with your bow?
IMO, poaching with bow & arrow is hard to detect, as the wardens would regard it.
I was shocked the first time I was pulled over. I had my weapon hidden in the center console (I have a concealed carry permit) when I was stopped for expired registration. I immediately handed him my drivers license and concealed carry permit and told him I had a loaded firearm in the center console where my registration and insurance papers were. He nonchalantly said: "No problem, I just need your papers." I reached into the console, where the gun was then exposed and got my papers and handed them to him. I don't even think he put his hand on his gun. I can't even feature this happening up in the northeast.
Many people choose to live in the Piedmont cities, where most of the jobs are, because the coast or the mountains are an easy drive of a few hours. Some are worried about coastal storms and flooding. I’d love to live in Emerald Isle, the whole place is a huge dune field, so unusual for the southeast coast which is typically flat as a pancake along the Atlantic. The oceanfront houses are on top of large dunes, incredible views from the Atlantic to the sound behind the island. Great views from many areas in the middle of the island, atop dunes again but covered in live oak and yaupon trees.
Homeschooling is easy in NC. I’m using my phone and can’t give you the link, but Google NC DNPE; that’s Division of Non Public Education. A home school is an independent private school, no contact except with DPNE (postcard or email once a year.
I live in Union County, east of Charlotte. It’s not scenic like Asheville, but it’s very nice.
We lived in WNC and got sick of A_Sheville. We moved up to the New Market, Va. area. Great place , Bob Goodlatte is our congress critter, great guy.
Avoid A_Sheville, Madison County, the Boone area, and the area close to Cullowee. Any other college towns, lib ghettos one and all.
North Ga., East Tenn. the upstate of SC are all better places ihmo.
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The communities around the South Mountains are very conservative too. As for Charlotte: At 1PM EST the Charlotte news radio station WBT led with a story defending Obamacare. Charlotte is a liberal ****-hole. Stay away.
True....most are “No problem” cops, and will not freak. But you get some that always want to “run the numbers” and all that. Most leave my gun on the dash, others take it and put it on the top of the car until leaving. I put it on dash even when conceal carry, just to eliminate the reaching aspect if they want to check it. And you are right... Probably a drawn on situation up north...lol
It depends on where you live. The cities are largely liberal. Mountain regions (outside of Asheville) is a tad more conservative if you don’t count the hippies. Even the rural parts of municipalities tend to be pretty conservative. I lived in McLeansville, outside Greensboro, and it was pretty good.
My dad grew up in eastern North Carolina. I was reading that Edgecombe county used to be the wealthiest county in the state and is now the poorest. As a result of this, you will find once beautiful and now derelict farmhouses littering the countrysides. They have sold off the land to corporate farms and these enormous mansions that used to have rooms full of laughing children and grandchildren are now empty and literally falling in on themselves. The kids moved to the city, the grandparents died, and no one wants a huge house that is now sitting on 1/2 acre out in the middle of nowhere. So they rot. Follow "Abandoned Houses of North Carolina" on Facebook to get the gist of it. It's tragic.
North Carolina's mountains are beautiful. I have lovely memories of summer camp in Hendersonville. Sigh. But people are right...Asheville and Chapel Hill harbor a large amount of dope-smoking, over-educated-and-love-for-you-to-know-it fleabags. But at least Chapel Hill and Raleigh have a great music scene.
I had sort a weird point-of-view growing up there because I always felt like an outsider. My mom was from the west coast and I guess I took on her feeling that I didn't quite belong. It gave me an opportunity to do a lot of observing. Therefore, I can tell you the rules. 1) True southerners are nice. Really, really nice. And Yankees have never met such nice people. They are all so nice! What you don't know is that they are actually talking about you behind your back. Always. They will treat you so nice, but you will never be considered one of them. It's not a bad thing though. Just come to the realization that if you weren't born there, and your daddy wasn't born there, you aren't one of them, and that's cool. 2) The daddy thing is a big deal. Do not be offended if someone asks you who your daddy is. It's not a kinky thing. It's just how they try to understand how or where you are connected via family, work, etc. This probably isn't as much of a thing now as it was back in the 70s, but it will be more prominent in the rural areas. I've heard it's a holdover from Scottish culture, which is very thick, especially in the North Carolina mountains. They want to know how your "clans" are connected to theirs. It might help if you are interested in genealogy. Because more than likely, you have a relative somewhere in your line who came through North Carolina at some point. Unless you are a true Yankee. 3) The Beach. I don't understand it and never will, but every native North Carolinian's honest-to-God goal in life is to live at the beach. If you ask them what they are doing this weekend, they are going to the beach. ("Goin' tha beach.") If you ask them what they are doing for Easter break, they are Goin' tha beach. If you ask them what they are doing for their anniversary, they are Goin' tha beach. If they... you get the idea. I never understood it because I would be in the mountains every opportunity, but especially for those in the foothills and Raleigh, the beach is their zen place. My uncle lives in a huge brick mansion in Johnston county, but has a trailer at the beach. It has been blown away by two hurricanes and he always replaces it. I asked him why he doesn't build a house. Answer: it wouldn't be as easy to replace as a trailer. [shrug] 4) Don't rush people, especially when they are telling stories. Just because they talk slow doesn't mean they think slow. Big Yankee mistake.
Go two miles inland and you can pick up a house for a song.
You can’t get your burgers less than medium-well there.
Asheville is liberals lesbians and bums heaven (though not a bad place to VISIT)!
Come to the Burbs of Raleigh: Apex ,Cary, Holly Springs, Fuquay. 2 hours to the beach and 3-4 to the mountains.
But hurry because we got about 80 people a day moving here and real estate is going through the roof!
We voted Trump and the legislator is majority Rep!
The point of being there to me would be the view, and the breeze. Two miles inland is muggy, humid swamp to me at least. If I was to relocate that far from “old home” up close to VA with the Blue Ridge in view on the horizon, I’d be doing it because of that. Close only counts in horseshoes.
You can if the ground beef is made on site. I’ve enjoyed many a medium rare burger, excellent but expensive by the way, at The Chop House.
Concealed Carry permits available and open carry is legal. You must go to the Sheriffs office to get a pistol buying permit and wait about 5 days for response & permit(s).
Not fair to Ohio.
Liberals in Ohio are almost exclusively in the big cities. My County, for example, was pushing 80% Trump.
I suspect OH is more conservative than PA and VA and equal to NC.
Eastern NC is great until you get a hurricane or it gets really hot. I’ve been looking at houses near Shallotte NC, mostly because they are near the beach and very cheap.
My understanding is that Asheville is an expensive place to live. I tried to get back to Boone to live but I couldn’t afford a house.
Oak Island (still known to old timers as Long Beach and Yaupon Beach) is very cheap compared to any other barrier island and it’s right there at Shallotte Inlet. My folks had a beach place, well more of a fishing shack, there for years when I was a kid until the point got wiped out by a hurricane. Oak Island gets snooted because it was sort of a blue collar place, slightly on the wild side but I frankly had a blast there as a kid. Everybody with a place down there had an old jalopy with the wheel wells cut out, doors taken off, huge tires, painted gaudy colors to match the house, called it a beach buggy and drove them all over, dunes included. No more, but great shelling if you’re into that.
You can do both at that price. Living on the beach comes with a variety of problems, whether it be tourons or hurricanes. I’d rather rent.
You can get a house close to the beach and a house in the mountains for about $150k each. If you want to REALLY live in the mountains, look at Narrows Va. You can still get a house for under $100k and the views are stunning. Nearby Craig County has a Prepper Festival every year.
The closest thing price-wise in NC might be Ashe County.
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