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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:34 PM
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NC coast?
Hello all!
This is my first post on this forum which I thought would be the best place for this question. If anyone would care to indulge me on this I'd appreciate it. I value the opinions and political sensibilities represented on DU in general.
I've been thinking about the OBX area as a possible spot to relocate and wonder if anyone has experience with or lives near that area and cares to comment on the kind of life that exists there.

Anyone?

TIA

ps If there's a better page for this let me know.
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felonious thunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:40 PM
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1. Not much job-wise
but it is beautiful. If you're on the coast, it's a tourist town, and if you're 5 miles inland, you are in Freeperdom.
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:45 PM
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4. 5 miles!
Wow, that close huh? All those Edwards supporters in Asheville?
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felonious thunk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:55 PM
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10. Yeah
although that might even be generous. It may be under 5 miles in many places.
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:59 PM
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12. Gotta admit
a little shakiness about freep style politics coming from Massachsetts
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Kathy in Cambridge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 05:24 PM
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20. I'm with you there, but
Massachusetts still elects Dems to congress and Senate. I hope it stays that way.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:42 PM
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2. Well if you are in construction there are lots of jobs there now.
Edited on Mon Oct-27-03 03:42 PM by underpants
OBX as we know it does not exist anymore. Two news inlets were created by Hurricane Isabel and there is now a North and South Hatteras.
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:47 PM
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7. Isabel
Yeah, guess so. Some of the websites I've been checking are carrying Isabel updates.
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Hep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:43 PM
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3. I prefer Central NC
I live in Durham, equidistant from the beach and the mountains. More jobs, fewer hurricanes.
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omshanti Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:48 PM
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8. hello fellow Durhamite!
I love it here too, but wish I was closer to the coast.

Derm is a great place to live - very diverse and always a lot going on.
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Hep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:56 PM
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11. whassup!
Nice to see another dermite!
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omshanti Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:06 PM
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15. Good to see all the Triangle people
Edited on Mon Oct-27-03 04:07 PM by omshanti
Sometimes I feel so so alone being a liberal in Republi-land...
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:18 PM
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17. Need to get over to Chapel Hill
more often. ;-) :hi:
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omshanti Donating Member (851 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:32 PM
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19. I spend a lot of time in Ch Hill
But live in Durham.
Are you a UNC student/ faculty?
:)
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 05:32 PM
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21. Hillbillys-borough here
Shortbus president and I...would liked to have seen you guys at the Will Pitt thingy at UNC last month! Maybe we'll have another get together soon and we can watch supernova smoke another cee-gar. ;) :hi:
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boneygrey Donating Member (651 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:46 PM
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5. Outerbanks
I live in Raleigh and have been there many times and it's a great place. My Aunt and Uncle live in Kill Devil Hills and love it.
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boneygrey Donating Member (651 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:46 PM
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6. Outerbanks
I live in Raleigh and have been there many times and it's a great place. My Aunt and Uncle live in Kill Devil Hills and love it.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 03:50 PM
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9. OBX is fine if you have an always
in demand skill like medical, teaching, construction and real estate, or anything connected to tourism/hospitality industry, of course.

Also, can you stand the thought of repeated rebuilding after hurricanes?

I live in the Durham-Chapel Hill area and enjoy the OBX as often as possible. Also the mountains. Was in Black Mountain this past weekend.

Welcome to DU JimWar.
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:00 PM
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13. Thanks
My wife and I are both chefs and kind of thinking of opening our own little shop.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:17 PM
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16. Cool!
I'm a foodie and always looking to try new places. Yum! What is your specialty?
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Jim Warren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:28 PM
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18. Broad based
Lots of experience in so-called New American, international regional and fusion world cuisines. We can get pretty eclectic. Rosamaria is from Oaxaca Mex and classically trained but loves pre-columbian type dishes. Irony is: she is currently running the kosher kithchen at a Jewish assisted living center(for which she got certified)
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voter x Donating Member (203 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-27-03 04:01 PM
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14. Virginia Beach
is about 90 mile from Dare County, its easy access to the Outter Banks. I lived in central NC for a while, but it was too far from the beach. NC's shore is beautiful, I'd rather surf there, then here...

Jason
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