Greenville NC

[BigRichard]

Anyone ever live and or spent much time around Greenville NC? I just spent a couple of days up there doing some interviews and while some great beaches are just a couple of hours away I wasn't super impressed with the area. The wife and I did a lot of driving around to check out different areas and they seem to be expanding fairly nicely but they had some really run down areas as well. I know they can get a lot of flooding in the area as well which scares the crap out of me. But if you find/build the right house the flooding shouldn't be much of an issue... I think. Just wanted to get anyone's opinion on the place as this would be a huge move for me and the wife. We don't really have any family out there to lean on and would hate to put us in a bad predicament.

[Garcia Bronco]

Yes and it's pronounced Green"vul". :)

There are a bunch of nice little towns\small cities in NC and Greenville isn't far from OBX. Or you can head down to Wilmington or Hatteras or Virginia Beach.

[Bewbies]

I had a bunch of friends in college who lived there. They loved it.

I’ve not been there, but I tell people all the time Raleigh/Durham is the most beautiful part of this part of the country easily. Such a beautiful couple of cities.

And yes, in the south Ville is pronounced Vul. Like in Kentucky it’s Lewvul, not Louie-ville. :)

[patteeu]

If flooding is a real problem, buy on high ground and try not to have a lot of low ground and bridges between you and the important places you need to go.

I had an aquaintance about 20 years ago who was from there and she really liked it. She eventually moved back. That's the full extent of my knowledge of Greenville.

[BigRichard]

If flooding is a real problem, buy on high ground and try not to have a lot of low ground and bridges between you and the important places you need to go.

I had an aquaintance about 20 years ago who was from there and she really liked it. She eventually moved back. That's the full extent of my knowledge of Greenville.

There are some options even for houses in the flood plain if you find the right property. We actually looked at this one awesome property and the house was actually built up on stilts. Very secluded, had a nice creek running through it, and bordered by several ponds. One of which you would own but the neighbors didn't mind if you used theirs according to the real estate lady we were talking to(she would be a bordering neighbor as well). She actually drove us through her property in the woods to get to this guys property. If you like a little privacy, that property was awesome.

[MahiMike]

My dad was born and raised there. I was a kid there until I was 7 and we moved to KC. My sister and I looked blonde and tan enjoying the beach. My cousins still live there and my aunt is head registrar at ECU. North Carolina is very pretty and Greenville is 80 miles from the coast. I'd recommend it for a family (I reckon)...

[lewdog]

Are you gay?

Are you fat?

Do you care about being either one?

[BigRichard]

Are you gay?

Are you fat?

Do you care about being either one?

My wife thinks I might be gay(does that count) and we aren't toothpicks but we aren't fatties by any stretch of the imagination.

[R8RFAN]

I go down there often on the job... It's a hot ass muggy sticky place... College town ECU
Going to Raleigh from there is an easy deserted ride on 264

Ok to visit, I am not interested in living there

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

ECU is supposed to be a great football town.

[BigRichard]

ECU is supposed to be a great football town.

According to the agent showing us around, everyone loves football at the beginning of the year. When they lose a bunch the excitement wanes a little.

[patteeu]

If flooding is a real problem, buy on high ground and try not to have a lot of low ground and bridges between you and the important places you need to go.

I had an aquaintance about 20 years ago who was from there and she really liked it. She eventually moved back. That's the full extent of my knowledge of Greenville.

Oops, I was wrong. My acquaintance was from Greensboro, not Greenville. The ECU stuff didn't sound right, so I double checked.

[Simply Red]

Side-note: There's a Sticky Fingers there - which is essentially a BBQ fast food place with pretty darned good fare. They have a lovely array of sauces to choose from, even a KC version. Give it a whirl if you find yourself there.

[Simply Red]

Richard disregard, darnit! that's Greenville SC. :( ...apologies to you kind sir.

[Simply Red]

I WILL say NC and SC have notably better family run eateries versus Georgia - more like KC than Atlanta.

[patteeu]

I WILL say NC and SC have notably better family run eateries versus Georgia - more like KC than Atlanta.

Do you have a lot of towns that have the word "Green" in them in Georgia?

[Simply Red]

Do you have a lot of towns that have the word "Green" in them in Georgia?

No not as much - just Greene County which is just below Athens, Ga where UGA is - I NOW live about 33 miles from Athens, I was closer to Atlanta last year, early. I moved back to the burbs, which I don't like, really.

[Simply Red]

I find North Carolina and South Carolina far more interesting than Georgia - more nostalgic, over all - much like Kansas City.

[patteeu]

No not as much - just Greene County which is just below Athens, Ga where UGA is - I NOW live about 33 miles from Athens, I was closer to Atlanta last year, early. I moved back to the burbs, which I don't like, really.

I bet Greene County was settled by Carolina immigrants a long time ago.

[Simply Red]

Not as Artsy though - but I'd far rather find a rare VHS tape at a flea market or maybe a talking Pee Wee Herman doll versus discovering a Hugo Boss shop - I've had my fill w/ status bullshit. Although I'll never embarrass myself w/ clothing. ha - sorry to hijack - please continue.

[patteeu]

Not as Artsy though - but I'd far rather find a rare VHS tape at a flea market or maybe a talking Pee Wee Herman doll versus discovering a Hugo Boss shop - I've had my fill w/ status bullshit. Although I'll never embarrass myself w/ clothing. ha - sorry to hijack - please continue.

That's ok. Status is important though, so don't completely write it off. Personally, when I go out, I wear the biggest belt buckle I can find. :)

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

According to the agent showing us around, everyone loves football at the beginning of the year. When they lose a bunch the excitement wanes a little.

So basically everywhere in America.

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Do you have a lot of towns that have the word "Green" in them in Georgia?

Georgia should. General Greene liberated the state from the British.

[Simply Red]

Georgia should. General Greene liberated the state from the British.

:clap:

Good job bud!

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

:clap:

Good job bud!

Thank you, sir.

I am a Revolutionary War buff.

Glad that someone knows who General Greene is. Extraordinary American. Plus, he lived and died in Georgia after the war. It is tragic he only enjoyed two years of glorious freedom before he passed away.

[Rain Man]

Interesting fake trivia: the town of Greenville was formed when two earlier towns, Blueville and Yellowville, merged.

[patteeu]

Georgia should. General Greene liberated the state from the British.

Was he from Carolina?

[Rain Man]

Brainstorm: I should write a book of fake trivia.

Here are a few fake trivia facts for you.

1. For a brief period of time in the late 1960s, Disneyland replaced Tomorrowland with a region called Psychedelicland, and children were not allowed to enter.

2. During the Great Depression, FDR strongly considered a proposal to sell the Louisiana Territory to Canada.

3. Cartoonist Charles Schulz originally drew Snoopy as a ferret.

4. A group of Mongols is called a horde. A group of Iranians is called a cell.

5. Bears cannot climb cherry trees.

[BigRichard]

Interesting fake trivia: the town of Greenville was formed when two earlier towns, Blueville and Yellowville, merged.

Brainstorm: I should write a book of fake trivia.

Here are a few fake trivia facts for you.

1. For a brief period of time in the late 1960s, Disneyland replaced Tomorrowland with a region called Psychedelicland, and children were not allowed to enter.

2. During the Great Depression, FDR strongly considered a proposal to sell the Louisiana Territory to Canada.

3. Cartoonist Charles Schulz originally drew Snoopy as a ferret.

4. A group of Mongols is called a horde. A group of Iranians is called a cell.

5. Bears cannot climb cherry trees.


Rainman knows how to hijack a thread. ROFL

[MarkDavis'Haircut]

Was he from Carolina?

Rhode Island.

But he liberated the Southern colonies from the British. He has many places named for him in America.

[JDKinman]

We lived in Rocky Mount (North Carolina) in the mid-90s, which is just north of Greenville.

I was never so happy to leave a state as I was when we left North Carolina in 1995 for Kansas City. Between places I've lived while in the military and a few years with the gov't, the only redeeming value North Carolina has is beautiful geography.

The barbecue sucks there. I mean flat out sucks. First serving I had, I was gagging and calling 9-1-1 and the Poison Control Center begging for an antidote.

The taxes are beyond draconian--at least they were in Nash County. Nash County fancies themselves much like Johnson County in Kansas. Well, I've lived in both and I'll take JoCo any day, any week, any month, year, decade or century over the corruption and pig manure that passes for politics in the Tarheel State.

Eastern North Carolina is filled to the brim with bluebloods who judge everybody and everything by the vaunted "family coat of arms" bullshit. I guess me being a sixth-generation native Texan and us Texans being a mix of everybody and everything, I'm not impressed with Confederate royalty from Virginia and Pennsylvania.

The economy in that part of the state was extremely fickle when we lived there. The smaller towns were dependent upon a large employer and as the employer went, so did the towns.

Greenville is a college town and that is their economy. The bluebloods in Raleigh would just as soon forget that ECU exists and basically only give it passing lip service compared to the money they pump into UNC and NC State. The church crowd pumps money and beer into Duke and Wake Forest. If you did not graduate from one of those four cash factories, you are a second class citizen in NC. If you were not born and raised in NC and from a blueblood family, you are a third-class citizen in NC.

The yankee invasion via I-95 was further killing the state. If you move there, you'll learn to instantly despise any car you see with Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey license tags--and there were boatloads of them when we lived there. People from Virginia who visit the beautiful beaches of North Carolina (because Virginia has completely effed up their OWN beaches) act like they own the state.

The public school education system in NC is beyond a joke. You'll see more trash on the side of the roads in NC than in a landfill. The pig farmers run the state and the levees that contain all the sewage on their farms leak into the area rivers and contaminate land for miles. Lot of outrage and fist-waving goes on in Raleigh in front of television cameras about it, but little to nothing is done outside of election years.

North Carolina is like California--gorgeous, beautiful and stunning when you visit and let yourself daydream or imagine living there. Then after a few months, the reality of the shithole sets in and you're left wondering what the hell have you done?

I can't speak all bad of NC, however. It was the experience there that drove me into telling my headhunter, "Get the hell out of here and I don't care WHERE!"

A few days later, I get a call and he asks, "Ever been to Kansas City?"

I visited, I was intrigued, I accepted the job, got a house in Olathe, spent three of the best years of our life there and unlike North Carolina, Kansas City GREW on us. North Carolina ate on us like a relentless cancer.

Coastal Carolina is nice but getting incredibly expensive and western Carolina in the mountains is getting taken over by the freaks. All in all, it's a typical eastern state which means it's got some interesting history, some nice geography and a few things to do and all in all makes for a better place to visit than to live if you're not from anywhere close to there.

JD

[R8RFAN]

Glad you are gone

[NJChiefsFan]

So JD doesn't like how NC judges out-of-staters and proceeds to judge people by their state license plate. Makes sense.

[Rain Man]

Fake trivia of the day: Antiperspirant was invented during World War I to improve living conditions in the trenches.

[Randallflagg]

I had a bunch of friends in college who lived there. They loved it.

I’ve not been there, but I tell people all the time Raleigh/Durham is the most beautiful part of this part of the country easily. Such a beautiful couple of cities.

And yes, in the south Ville is pronounced Vul. Like in Kentucky it’s Lewvul, not Louie-ville. :)


Never been to Greenville NC but lived in Greenville SC for a very short time (TDY) for a while in the 80s…

And yes….Lou-a-vul is my Alma Mater…Hell, lived there (unfortunately) for about 5 years. Family is from Kentucky.

[Randallflagg]

We lived in Rocky Mount (North Carolina) in the mid-90s, which is just north of Greenville.

I was never so happy to leave a state as I was when we left North Carolina in 1995 for Kansas City. Between places I've lived while in the military and a few years with the gov't, the only redeeming value North Carolina has is beautiful geography.

The barbecue sucks there. I mean flat out sucks. First serving I had, I was gagging and calling 9-1-1 and the Poison Control Center begging for an antidote.

The taxes are beyond draconian--at least they were in Nash County. Nash County fancies themselves much like Johnson County in Kansas. Well, I've lived in both and I'll take JoCo any day, any week, any month, year, decade or century over the corruption and pig manure that passes for politics in the Tarheel State.

Eastern North Carolina is filled to the brim with bluebloods who judge everybody and everything by the vaunted "family coat of arms" bullshit. I guess me being a sixth-generation native Texan and us Texans being a mix of everybody and everything, I'm not impressed with Confederate royalty from Virginia and Pennsylvania.

The economy in that part of the state was extremely fickle when we lived there. The smaller towns were dependent upon a large employer and as the employer went, so did the towns.

Greenville is a college town and that is their economy. The bluebloods in Raleigh would just as soon forget that ECU exists and basically only give it passing lip service compared to the money they pump into UNC and NC State. The church crowd pumps money and beer into Duke and Wake Forest. If you did not graduate from one of those four cash factories, you are a second class citizen in NC. If you were not born and raised in NC and from a blueblood family, you are a third-class citizen in NC.

The yankee invasion via I-95 was further killing the state. If you move there, you'll learn to instantly despise any car you see with Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey license tags--and there were boatloads of them when we lived there. People from Virginia who visit the beautiful beaches of North Carolina (because Virginia has completely effed up their OWN beaches) act like they own the state.

The public school education system in NC is beyond a joke. You'll see more trash on the side of the roads in NC than in a landfill. The pig farmers run the state and the levees that contain all the sewage on their farms leak into the area rivers and contaminate land for miles. Lot of outrage and fist-waving goes on in Raleigh in front of television cameras about it, but little to nothing is done outside of election years.

North Carolina is like California--gorgeous, beautiful and stunning when you visit and let yourself daydream or imagine living there. Then after a few months, the reality of the shithole sets in and you're left wondering what the hell have you done?

I can't speak all bad of NC, however. It was the experience there that drove me into telling my headhunter, "Get the hell out of here and I don't care WHERE!"

A few days later, I get a call and he asks, "Ever been to Kansas City?"

I visited, I was intrigued, I accepted the job, got a house in Olathe, spent three of the best years of our life there and unlike North Carolina, Kansas City GREW on us. North Carolina ate on us like a relentless cancer.

Coastal Carolina is nice but getting incredibly expensive and western Carolina in the mountains is getting taken over by the freaks. All in all, it's a typical eastern state which means it's got some interesting history, some nice geography and a few things to do and all in all makes for a better place to visit than to live if you're not from anywhere close to there.

JD

Moved to Olathe when there was little more than farmland….been there ever since. I have lived all over the world and Olathe is HOME.

[Rain Man]

Never been to Greenville NC but lived in Greenville SC for a very short time (TDY) for a while in the 80s…

And yes….Lou-a-vul is my Alma Mater…Hell, lived there (unfortunately) for about 5 years. Family is from Kentucky.

Fake trivia: Louisville is named after actor Jerry Lewis.