Topic: Not planning on invading NC just yet, but.....

[NJAntman]

This here yankee is so fed up with life in NJ that I'm thinking of getting out for greener pastures, or at least lower taxes and hope of a Home Depot and Walmart more than 10 miles in any direction.

With that in mind can any of you familiar with NC give a brief pro/con of the difference in the regions as listed by some real estate services: Mountain, Piedmont, Coastal.

And is it true, can new construction ranch size houses be had for under $200,000? ???

[J. Carney]

This here yankee is so fed up with life in NJ that I'm thinking of getting out for greener pastures, or at least lower taxes and hope of a Home Depot and Walmart more than 10 miles in any direction.

With that in mind can any of you familiar with NC give a brief pro/con of the difference in the regions as listed by some real estate services: Mountain, Piedmont, Coastal.

And is it true, can new construction ranch size houses be had for under $200,000? ???

LOL... yeah, just stay out of the tourist zones, and you can probably bring that $200K precetag down to $150K or so. I know that you can even find places where total construction costs on an average sized house (2000 sq. ft.) in Alabama won't run over even $120K, thought those are all more like 30 minutes from a Wal-Mart/Home Depot.

[Khalee1]

Dude come to oklahoma Im sure SirGod would put you up in his new house till you get your own place;D

[Capt_Bearslayer_XC]

This here yankee is so fed up with life in NJ that I'm thinking of getting out for greener pastures, or at least lower taxes and hope of a Home Depot and Walmart more than 10 miles in any direction.

With that in mind can any of you familiar with NC give a brief pro/con of the difference in the regions as listed by some real estate services: Mountain, Piedmont, Coastal.

And is it true, can new construction ranch size houses be had for under $200,000? ???

Hmmm... Mountains is anything west of Winston-Salem, piedmont is between Winston-Salem and Burlington.  Costal is everything east of Burlington. 

As I am really annoyed wtih this state right now, I am probably not the best person to ask....

But what I can tell you....

4 straight years of rising taxes (highest in the southeast)

In the top 5 of a lot of agricultural products.

Some of the worst roads I have ever seen in a major highway system.

If you are used to a basement.  Don't plan on one here for most of the state.  Water level and soil are not condusive to it.

[NJAntman]

If you are used to a basement.  Don't plan on one here for most of the state.  Water level and soil are not condusive to it.

Hadn't thought of that, but now I realize the real estate listings are short on basements. Hmmmm, good point.

BTW, my only roadbloack would be the wife giving up a tenured teaching job and full pension. Do any of you NC folks now how the K-6 education employment looks. By the way so many here talk of moving there, I'd think that the schools in NC are growing.

[Capt_Bearslayer_XC]

Not sure how the employment situation is... I do know that we are down around 47-50th in government education....

Wake County has been the subject of much anguish by parents the last few years as they have shuffled kids around like pieces on a chess board trying to get X% of blacks, hispanics, and whites at every school in the county.

It would have been funny if it wasn't so idiotic.  specificly, I remember the story told by a  black lady who lived near the southern border of Wake County having her son bussed up to a school in Wake Forest (far north of Wake County).  Amongst her complaints was that she didn't even own a car, so if she had to go get her son, she would have nearly an hour & 1/2 bus ride with a few transfers to get up there.

Numerous complaints from parents over this, especially when their children are having bus rides of up to an hour to get to or from school.  And this reshuffling has had some kids going to 2-3 different schools in the past 3 years.