Do you like it? How is the climate overall year round? Car scene? Pros and cons??

There is another post about NC already. Check it out, but the weather here is warm, sunny, hot, hotter, cold and occasionally it will snow. I live near Atlantic Beach and the weather on the most part is pretty good. We get plenty of Hurricanes during the season, but it's been a while since we had a bad one.

Put some pictures of that car in your posts, I would love to see it.

Dang, there's alot of people moving here. I can't seem to locate the NC thread.

Dang, there's alot of people moving here. I can't seem to locate the NC thread.

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120781


There it is...

This is a HORRIBLE place, last place on earth anyone should want to move to!

Are you serious?

I think he was kidding....but I won't lie to you, it's muggy as hell here in the summer, the winters are mild, cops give you tickets if you get involved in a fender bender, all autombiles (except 35 years or older) have to be inspected annually, '96 and newer get the $30 OBDII inspections, vehicle titles still have to be notorized and the license branch closes at 5pm on Friday and is closed all weekend long, the mountains are in the west and the beach is to the east.....but we do have racing down here, the Rockingham drag way is down south, NASCAR I think is in Charlotte, rednecks still fly the rebel flag down here....

Here are the average temps for Charlotte http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USNC0121?from=search

I love it, moved here 15 yrs ago fron Long Island NY and never looked backed !!!!!

Are you serious?

I was being sarcastic... we don't have much vacancy left here :)

Born and Raised and no plans to change that!!!

any spiders and snakes ?

Yes we have brown recluse spiders as well as black widows and those pesky orb weavers (the ones that come out in mid july and build their nests in your doorway)

And yes we have snakes too, I don't know which ones we have....I wouldn't be suprised if we had poisonous ones here....we lost a dog once due to a supposed snake bite in the backyard.....

For being a "free state" our gun laws are kinda wierd. Make sure you check before hand about them if your in to that stuff.

This is a HORRIBLE place, last place on earth anyone should want to move to!


don't listen to Brian......he lives in Durham!!!! Which is WAY too close to Chapel Hill....

Sounds like NC is the Pac NW of the east coast! :D

ok are the brown recluse really common down there? i been also thinking about moving also but being an outdoors type guy i need to know about those things.

ok are the brown recluse really common down there? i been also thinking about moving also but being an outdoors type guy i need to know about those things.

Yes, but I only know of one person that has been bitten by one. Ticks and redbugs are more of a problem for the outdoorsmen. Black Widow spiders are big and easy to see, mostly in underbrush or hidding under other debris on the ground.

As for snakes, we got plenty, probably 50/50 poisonous or not. If it's swimming in the water, or has rattlers, it's a potential killer.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/gaston/Pests/reptiles/snakepix3.html

ok then spiders snakes wow how do you guys deal with that ****? especially hunters.

ok then spiders snakes wow how do you guys deal with that ****? especially hunters.


Don't worry about the spiders and snakes, but beware the southern redheaded women!!!:D :beers: :D

ok then spiders snakes wow how do you guys deal with that ****? especially hunters.

I've spent my whole life here, and I do pretty much every outdoor activity you can think of. Hunting, fishing, backpacking, camping, mt. biking, rock climbing, whatever.
I've NEVER seen a brown recluse...I guess they don't call them a 'recluse' for nothing :). I HAVE seen tons of black widows, which are nasty little boogers too, but they usually live in places that humans don't often go. You just have to be careful when sticking your hands in dark,damp holes that you can't see into :).
As for snakes, I've seen copperheads around here, killed a couple, but never had a problem with them. Up in the mountains I can walk around my dad's property and find you 5 arm-sized Timber rattlers on any given day. Again though, they rarely bother you if you aren't trying to bother them. They'll generally make every effort to avoid you.

If you're THAT worried about creepy crawlies, you don't sound like much of an outdoorsman. It's no worse here than anywhere else, and probably not as bad as many places in the US. I've spent many a night in NC sleeping on the ground with no tent out in the woods, and never had a snake crawl in my bag. You take the same precautions you would anywhere when hunting, camping, etc. Wear appropriate clothing and shoes, some bug repellent, pay attention to what you're doing, and enjoy the outdoors.

by all means, I encourage you to stay in NJ, we don't need any more damn yankees! :D

Don't worry about the spiders and snakes, but beware the southern redheaded women!!!:D :beers: :D

Now I'll second that!

by all means, I encourage you to stay in NJ, we don't need any more damn yankees! :D

i was born and raised in green level...... does anyone else notice that there are more jersey and new york tags now-a-days then nc ones??

We get all kinds of tags over this way :)

I've been in the field enough around here, and I have yet to see a snake or a brown recluse spider of any kind. Of course, it's like fat women with no teeth, I don't go looking for them either ;)

I encourage you to stay in NJ, we don't need any more damn yankees! :D

If you are origionally from the South (Va) but have lived up north for so long now that you talk like them does that now make you a Yankee???

Don't worry about the spiders and snakes, but beware the southern redheaded women!!!:D :beers: :D


Mmmmmm..... Got Pics????


i was born and raised in green level...... does anyone else notice that there are more jersey and new york tags now-a-days then nc ones??

Does anyone notice that there are more NC and VA tags up here???

If you are origionally from the South (Va) but have lived up north for so long now that you talk like them does that now make you a Yankee???


Pretty much, but you're allowed to come to your senses and 'return home' without penalty :). It depends on where in VA you're from though. 'NoVA' doesn't count as 'the south'.


Does anyone notice that there are more NC and VA tags up here???

They're just relocated yankees that went home to visit relatives...

i was born and raised in green level...... does anyone else notice that there are more jersey and new york tags now-a-days then nc ones??

I grew up in New Hill, not far away. I remember when Green Level was nothing but farmland. Now it's nothing but a sprawl of cheaply built extremely overpriced houses crammed together so tightly you'd have a hard time walking between them.

Pretty much, but you're allowed to come to your senses and 'return home' without penalty :). It depends on where in VA you're from though. 'NoVA' doesn't count as 'the south'.



They're just relocated yankees that went home to visit relatives...


Hahaha..... Nope, Southern Va.... I even have my Robery E Lee statue like every other good Virginian....

You're probably right... Although they are all in the City, they don't dare come out here...

I grew up in New Hill, not far away. I remember when Green Level was nothing but farmland. Now it's nothing but a sprawl of cheaply built extremely overpriced houses crammed together so tightly you'd have a hard time walking between them.

Well you have just described most of Raleigh as far as I am concerned. I could barely afford my house, and it has a *just tolerable* amount of land.

Well you have just described most of Raleigh as far as I am concerned. I could barely afford my house, and it has a *just tolerable* amount of land.

You've probably seen my posts on HPJ about that kinda stuff... I won't even get started here. I definitely hear ya!

Your average person from the suburbs of NJ though sees our overpriced houses on a 'barely tolerable' amount of land as being incredibly cheap and spacious and a huge deal! That's why those of us actually 'from' here are forced out of the market and ultimately the area altogether.

Want to see over priced homes on a barely tolerable amount of land come to Nassau County on Long Island...

Allan,

I hear ya brother !!!!! Moved here 15 yrs ago and I only miss the food !!!!!

Bill

You've probably seen my posts on HPJ about that kinda stuff... I won't even get started here. I definitely hear ya!



Nope. I quit HPJ long ago......

Sounds like NC is the Pac NW of the east coast! :D

I lived in NC for 14 years and its FAR from being anything like the Pacific North West. Southerners fly the Confederate Battle Flag, are polite, and somehow the Daisy Duke shorts look much better on a GRITS than the liberal, mouthy, tree huggin', Subaru drivin', non-merging PNW women. (If you don't know what a GRITS is, ask Big James):D

I lived in NC for 14 years and its FAR from being anything like the Pacific North West. Southerners fly the Confederate Battle Flag, are polite, and somehow the Daisy Duke shorts look much better on a GRITS than the liberal, mouthy, tree huggin', Subaru drivin', non-merging PNW women. (If you don't know what a GRITS is, ask Big James):D

:D :beers: :waving:

I've spent my whole life here, and I do pretty much every outdoor activity you can think of. Hunting, fishing, backpacking, camping, mt. biking, rock climbing, whatever.
I've NEVER seen a brown recluse...I guess they don't call them a 'recluse' for nothing :). I HAVE seen tons of black widows, which are nasty little boogers too, but they usually live in places that humans don't often go. You just have to be careful when sticking your hands in dark,damp holes that you can't see into :).
As for snakes, I've seen copperheads around here, killed a couple, but never had a problem with them. Up in the mountains I can walk around my dad's property and find you 5 arm-sized Timber rattlers on any given day. Again though, they rarely bother you if you aren't trying to bother them. They'll generally make every effort to avoid you.

If you're THAT worried about creepy crawlies, you don't sound like much of an outdoorsman. It's no worse here than anywhere else, and probably not as bad as many places in the US. I've spent many a night in NC sleeping on the ground with no tent out in the woods, and never had a snake crawl in my bag. You take the same precautions you would anywhere when hunting, camping, etc. Wear appropriate clothing and shoes, some bug repellent, pay attention to what you're doing, and enjoy the outdoors.

by all means, I encourage you to stay in NJ, we don't need any more damn yankees! :D
i am an outdoorsman alright i just dont really wanna be anywhere near those kind of things , i seen photos of what a brown recluse can do to ya. black widows can kill ya . i read a lot of stories from other duck hunters who live down south and the snakes they have to deal with is horrible. but then some people said its not bad at all and they harley encounter anything at all. and having this yankee down there would be good for everyone. i work on cars go to car shows like to live in peace pay my taxes and i am not a mexican.:) (not that theres anything wrong with that):waving:

I understand your fear......for the most part if you leave them alone they'll leave you alone.

The only time I've heard of a black widow being able to kill anyone is if they're really old or really young. Otherwise the most you'll expenrience (so I've been informed) is muscular cramps and such...

And yeah those recluses are no joke....

From what I have learned both of those spiders favor dark cool places....i.e. a crawl space under a house. I've seen widows under trash cans and in brake hubs.

I think the biggest problem with spiders around here are them dang orb weavers....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb_Weaver Seems like they favor any area around the woods, they come out around mid July/August and stay out until October.....they're usually a browish to orange color and sometimes have stripes around their legs...we get them here and we've had them in Indiana too....they like to build their webs in trees, doorways and anywhere else they can.....nothing like walking out your door and have a nice big old spider web in/on your face. :eek:

Brown recluse spider, here in wisconsin. I Live in two Rivers Wi.

I go into the local citgo today and this guy walks in that lives three blocks from me, bandage on his hand, clerk ask him how is hand was.

Anyway he had some gloves in his garage, put them on and felt a scratch, said he thought it was a piece of metal from welding that scratched him.

First day sore spot, second day big as a dime, third day big as a quarter, he went in spent three days in the hospital, they tested him and they said it was a brown recluse that bit him, he pulled the bandage back, and did that look nasty.

Now North Carolinas climate.

I lived in Cornelius North Carolina for one summer, worked at Mcguire power plant, when we would get out of work and get in our cars, I thought the windows were going to explode in that blacktop parking lot, I have never ever experienced heat like that, and humidity was bad.

People were really friendly, I'm sure that 8 months out of the year, that would be a really nice place to live, but how do you do anything outside in the summer.

But here in Two Rivers along Lake Michigan we only have about four months of decent weather, so if you look at that, North Carolina might be a better deal.

Theres one thing that I know for sure, you can dress for the cold. But how do you get anything done outside in that heat and humidity.

Rob

i am an outdoorsman alright i just dont really wanna be anywhere near those kind of things , i seen photos of what a brown recluse can do to ya. black widows can kill ya . i read a lot of stories from other duck hunters who live down south and the snakes they have to deal with is horrible. but then some people said its not bad at all and they harley encounter anything at all. and having this yankee down there would be good for everyone. i work on cars go to car shows like to live in peace pay my taxes and i am not a mexican.:) (not that theres anything wrong with that):waving:

I spent 14 years at FT Bragg much of that time was in the field sleeping on the ground. In all that time, the only thing I really had problems with were ticks and even then, they pulled off. I was by a stream one day to get some water and I saw a HUGE cottonmouth. I was more than happy to let him have the road. We used to get black widows underneath the rose bushes once and awhile but you learn to expect them when you work out doors, just wear gloves. Never saw a brown recluse. I love to look at the orb weavers, the webs are beautiful in the early morning with the dew on them. Just expect to start sweating about the middle of May and you won't stop until the middle of October.