What is your opinion of North Carolina?

I was born in Greensboro,NC(the third most populous city). I want to know what you think of NC. I think this is an ok state that is moving in the right direction(we went for Obama and elected our first female Gov).We also kicked out liddy. We are one of the beautiful states.

and I live in one of them. I love ACC basketball and this is the best state in March.

Oh yeah we have to get rid of Burr in 2010.

No one's been reelected to it since Sam Ervin in 1968

Love the vinegar base.

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And generous dollops of early Spring. 70s and Mid 70s this weekend. B-)

mikey_the_rat

mikey_the_rat

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own 10 acres within Asheville City limits?? Or Buncombe County?

and I have not been back there in a few years (though I live in Virginia, so I should visit).

mikey_the_rat

I love the mountains. I love my city and I think NC is a great state. Not perfect by any means, but as you say...moving in the right direction.

representative of your state, but most of the people I met there were very good to me and I liked the country - would be a good state to have a few acres for a hunting cabin, etc. Seemed like a friendly place even to us soldiers.
I also really liked North Georgia, but that's very different.
mark

I have nothing against NC but it wouldn't be at the top of my list of states I want to live in.

Too many damn carpetbaggers already

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urban legend has it that Cary is an acronym for "Containment Area for Relocated Yankees". :P

Division TEACCH at UNC-Chapel Hill (now with centers statewide) was the first effort to actually try to educate kids with autism, back when they were all believed to have mental retardation (counterexample: my own IQ on the WAIS is off-scale, >145 :-) ).

To this day NC's services stand out to the point where families from throughout the country often move there to take advantage of them.

At a McDonald's near the main TEACCH center in Chapel Hill, it is possible to order a Big Mac and fries nonverbally, using TEACCH's PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System). PECS is now widely used in schools nationwide.

So if you ever do another state quarter, it should say "First in Autism", with Dr. Eric Schopler's picture in place of Orville and Wilbur's biplane.

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Seriously, I love NC. Have family there and spent time there growing up.

mostly did a drive-by of the rest

don't you think?

If I could find work there, I'd live there. My first ancestors to immigrate to No. America came through Wilmington in 1755.

Compared to here.

:P

"I'd rather be shagging"...

and it was some of the most beautiful scenery I'd ever seen. People were nice & the food was great, an overall great time. Saw my first Piggly wiggly too. :7 I'd love to go back next year...

Tar heel dead.

Cool.

One of my favorite people in the world is in NC. So naturally, I love it.

It's so close yet so far away.

I lived there at Chapel Hill while my Dad was getting his Masters and loved it (I was 7 and had my run of the campus).

We go 2 or 3 times a year to visit my Dad and Stepmom in Wilmington. I was in Asheville last month and liked that. I used to go to Jesus Camp at Montreat. Highland Brewing Company in Asheville makes some fine beer.

On one of my visits to my Dad, 10 years ago or so, I saw a Bumper Sticker that read "I don't care how you did it up north"

One of my younger Brothers (now 26) graduated from UNC Chapel Hill, right now he's a Forensic Lab Tech for the NYPD, but I think he's going to Medical School in a year or two and wants to return to NC. I can't say that I blame him.

If I could only afford to buy it!

And given my screenname, it's a crime that I haven't been there yet. :hi:

and have felt that way for years, even before it went blue!

down here to Nuth Caolina sum twenny years back, suh, Ah am happy to call it home

As Ah will always remain in mah hart, suh, a dam yank, Ah do hope that Nuth Caolinyans become evah mo progressive in tyme, but Ah find much reason fo hope

a damn yankee stays. :hi:

Good to have you. Most people transplanted here from somewhere.

they are all here in Virginia

:rofl:

that joke also used to work about West Virginia too...not any more. Charlotte is a major banking hub.

that's pretty cool.

I like the cheap smokes. Their portion of I-95 was in terrible shape the past few times I've been there.

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Hi,
Visited Asheville and some of the surrounding area probably around 7 years ago and found it absolutely beautiful. The Blue Ridge Parkway is fantastic. Didn't spend a whole lot of time in Asheville itself, but it sure had a cool vibe during the time I was visiting. I did the google machine to see that the Blue Moon Cafe & Bakery is still in business, glad to hear it!

Peace

The sun rise at Duck, up on the Northern Outer Banks



Miles and miles of empty beach down on Ocracoke



Linville Gorge. It's like the Grand Canyon but it's not hot as hell



A lake in the middle of the state, just to show that there are a few scenic things in between the mountains and the coast

When I moved from Italy, I ended up in rural NC, about 1 hour away from Raleigh. I went to NC State and Duke and lived a few years in the Raleigh area. Then I moved to NYC and remained there for 4 years (love it), but the cost of housing is brutal.

Anyway, now I live 35 miles south of Wilmington. All I have to do is spit and I hit the ocean. I'm a beach bum, so I'm in heaven. I also love college basketball, so it's even better!

Still haven't been to the mountains (I am not a mountain person).

Would love to visit the place.
Unless Earnest T still geeking.What a freak.
Does Floyd still sell 'ludes at his barbershop?Or are the rumors about Otis switching from cooking shine to meth true?

All kidding aside,I have to say I have enjoyed my time visiting the state.Beautiful state with friendly people.

Andy Griffith grew up in Mt. Airy, and the town makes a LOT of money selling the connection to tourists.

It is the home of the best business in America: Squad Car Tours. Someone bought some 1962 cars and fixed them up to look like police cars, and he sells tours of Mt. Airy in them for $30 per carload.

As far as the state of NC is concerned...some of this state is wonderful. Not to discount the larger cities and the coast, but Moore County is wonderful and Johnston County has its charms. I like Broadway too--hell, I like most of Lee County. Sanford's kinda ugly, but it's just a town that grew faster than it should have.

And then there's Fayetteville. The big city that wants desperately to be a little town. If there's such a thing as Municipal Napoleon Complex, Fayetteville has it. Don't come here.

once a year for a music festival.
Elderly women in attendance quickly get dubbed Aunt Bea.

I also have a lot of friends in the Asheville area.Wish I could spend more time there.If I had the money to do so that area is on my short list for buying a farm.
One thing I have noticed there,and it may be just me,is that there are few people there who are middle of the road politically.It seems as if you are either far left or far right.That must make things interesting.

Moved from Guildford, England to... wait for it...

Guilford County.

Friendly people - definitely - I married one!

Beautiful state. Weather: English winters, Spanish summers. Not enough rain at times but when it comes - easy please not all at once!

Still trying to grapple around the political and religious scenes here... sorry I still don't understand half of it and I've been here 10 years.

I have not convinced my wife that a great vacation would consist of travelingthe backroads of NC stopping at every roadhouse trying BBQ.

I lived in the research triangle area when I was a young child in the 60s-but back then there were even billboards advertising the KKK. It was beautiful-but redneck racist hillbilly heaven. I'm really happy to see all the changes that have happened there since.

These things go through you head
When there's a man on your back
And you're pushed flat on your stomach
It's not a classic cadillac

Me and a gun
and a man
On my back
But I haven't seen Barbados
So I must get out of this

I grew up in western NC...Asheville area and it sure has changed for the better. My great grandfather was on of the workers building the Biltmore Estate. Cherokee is beautiful and the movie, "Last of the Mochians" was filmed there. Was I ever surprised to see some of the places I went to as a child up there on the screen. And when Obama was the winner in NC I was right proud.

it has been amazing to watch.

of Brevard NC. That was my other home town (went to boarding school in Asheville) and I saw all these trees that weren't there when I was in high school. It's all fancied up these days it seems. I've been to Asehville a few times and it's the hot place to be these days.

All of my family is from there dating back to to my ancestor (a grandfather on my fathers side) who came over from Ireland in the mid 1700s.

I sure wish that Georgia was blue like NC.

I lived in Charlotte for 10 years and have missed the place ever since moving away.

Pretty state; love the hills; love the Outerbanks.

couldn't wait to get back home...

The Blue Ridge mountains:

:shrug:

And I don't think of states as one stereotyped human, which apparently makes me weird. When I think "North Carolina", I think "Home. Beauty. Soft breezes on a spring day with a beautiful clear blue sky. The smell of freshly mowed grass. Blue mountains in the distance and ocean waves coming gently into shore."

As for the people who live in this beauty - they're people. They come in all different sizes and skin tones and beliefs and genders and gender preferences and life experiences. They are the same as humans anywhere else in the world and they are also each individuals. There is not a machine at all the hospitals here that they put you through when you're born or when you move here to make you a cardboard cutout of what regional bigots think of the South.

When I was little and we would go visit family in Oklahoma, I would cry with joy when I saw the "Welcome to North Carolina" sign on the way back. There's a reason that the state is my avatar.

When I say almost I mean that my first husband and I visited for a week to check it out because we both loved it. Found out we were nowhere near able to afford moving where we wanted to (Triangle area). That was the early 90's. I'm sure I would have loved teaching there <sigh>.

Current husband and I traveled to Asheville last Spring Break. We loved it and want to go back when we have a longer amount of time to spend there. Mr. AAL even mentioned he could retire there. :D

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