anyone familiar with Fayetteville NC?

My oldest just moved there and is looking for work and a life. I looked online but didn't find much information. What can you tell me about he city/area?

No offense, just not a lot going on there. I'm up in Raleigh and it's a fairly severe difference.

Very ugly, flat city. No beauty, lots of strip malls and shopping centers.

Fort Bragg is there. The city is often referred to as "Fayette-Nam"...

On the upside, there are a ton of strip clubs!

but haven't been there in a long time so can't tell you much - very large military base

My cousin lives there and is an elementary school librarian.

Though it is a military town (Ft Bragg) they are trying desperately to shed the "Fayette 'Nam" image. :D The good news is you're only a little over an hour away from the beach!

The economy is slowly, very slowly picking up here.

is in the military and when My son needed to get away from where he was, his friend asked him to come there. I wish he had come here to Pa, but there are reasons he did not want to such as a nut case ex-girlfriend. Anyway, I hope he finds something to do with himself besides join the army.

but I would tell your oldest to move to the Triangle (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill).

In North Carolina, you want to be in the Triangle, Wilmington, Asheville (very cool town), or Charlotte.

In North Carolina, you want to be in the Triangle, Wilmington, Asheville (very cool town), or Charlotte.

friends with their heads on straight...or so he thinks. I hope he is right.

Lots of drugs there. He needs to move to the Triangle!

I am sorry to hear that.

I know there's an interesting punk culture there, hardcore music and such. And I know that the drug culture there has been healthy for decades. I could be all wrong. I love Durham, though!

Come to Raleigh!!!

Lived there for three years....at Bragg. Lots of pawn shops, used car lots, trailer parks and bigots. I admit it was thirty years ago, but I worked for the newspaper (the liberal paper) and the first thing I was asked in my interview was why I wanted to work when I had a husband. :eyes: In the newsroom itself, the "n" word was frequently used. They had prayer sessions before the work shift. No-one had heard of a bagel. It was a riot.

On the other side, I attented Fayettville State College (now known as U of NC at Fayetteville, I think) an all-black school. There were about l0 white students (which was a terrific learning experience for me). But I found the blacks too (mostly poor and rural) were very anti-white, resentful and felt they were "owed" something. While I understood the reason for the attitute, I found it difficult to put up with sometimes.

Ultimately, I attended law school in a small community about 20 miles from Fayetteville. Thank God I was only there for two months in the summer before being accepted at Rutgers in New Jersey. I would have never lasted at that law school (I've even forgotten the name) because the students and professors were unbearably Christian and conservative.

Maybe its changed. And your son can always go to Raleigh-Duram, which is a great city. But Fayeteville itself.....I can only hope it has changed for your son's sake.

He had a short story out several years ago about the soldiers who killed a gay soldier they caught having sex. I remember in the story that one guy couldn't figure out why they were obsessed with "gay rats." Turns out he didn't understand the dialect: they were talking about gay rights.

Home to a military base, so, naturally.

Better known as Fayettnam and Fayettraq. Also been called Fayettreich Fayettrea and Fayettstan.

Crime is a problem there. Lousy schools.


Come to Raleigh, or go to Chapel Hill, not Fayettville.

Jesse Helms told President(our last elected president)Clinton he coudn't promise him that he would be safe when he visited that post while he was president,and our liberal press down played the Helms statement.