Proud to call The Carolinas “Home”

I always love traveling, and have been some amazing places, but this is home.
I'll never leave the Triad for more than a week or so at a time
 
I hate traveling.......... Chicken Lady makes solo trips to Mount Alta Utah to see her oldest daughter. The farthest I want to go from my driveway now that I'm retired is the PHA range. Only exception is the beach a couple times a year and that is traumatic.
 
I love to travel. Especially on my motorcycle. I was born and raised in NC but I could definitely move to Sandpoint, Idaho. NC is one of the best areas in the country though especially in the western part.
 
I have been away with the military, but born and bred in NC. I love North Carolina. I have had opportunities to work in Texas and California, turned down better jobs to stay. I do not regret it.
 
I couldn't wait to get outta here when I was young. As soon as I could, I put my town and this state in my rearview, dead set on never coming back.
Thirty seven states and twenty one countries later, I am raising my son in the town I was raised in, less than two miles from where I was raised.
It's always been home, I just didn't always know it.
 
I love my part of NE NC but would move to my wife's hometown in MI in a heartbeat. The only issue is convincing her to move back.
 
I love my part of NE NC but would move to my wife's hometown in MI in a heartbeat. The only issue is convincing her to move back.

I have the same feelings about NC. I'd move back to NH but no one is giving me an acre on Lake Winnipesaukee. So, alas, the move isn't going to happen. :(
 
I have the same feelings about NC. I'd move back to NH but no one is giving me an acre on Lake Winnipesaukee. So, alas, the move isn't going to happen. :(

We live in my hometown and I love it but I can see that changes are coming, My wifes hometown in MI reminds me of Warrenton 25 years ago.
 
"I'm a Tar Heel born; I'm a Tar Heel bred." I've traveled extensively and never found anywhere better. I'm a proud Appalachian-American!
 
I am the opposite. Was raised in NC and the spent the first 12 years of my career stationed in NC, wife and I’s family is there, but after moving to TX and downing a few years there, that is where We now call home. Trying to get back just as soon as we can
 
I haven't traveled as extensively as many here, but I have been around enough to know that I prefer NC over any other places I have visited. I love having the mountains two hours to the west, the beach 4 hours to the east. Our summers get hot...but not "Arizona melt the trashcans" hot. Our winters get cold, but not the "-40 windchill" cold like the north gets. We have enough snow to be pretty...but it rarely lasts enough to be more than a brief inconvenience, but enough to be a fun break from the monotony and something to look forward to. We have enough big cities to attract sports and theater and entertainment, but enough back country to attract blue grass, farm conventions, and moonshiners. We have enough variety in BBQ to lead to fistfights. We aren't yet fully invaded by snow birds like Florida, and we have fewer mosquitoes than South Carolina.
 
We live in my hometown and I love it but I can see that changes are coming, My wifes hometown in MI reminds me of Warrenton 25 years ago.

What town in Michigan?
Mum and Dad moved here to WNC from Michigan in 1991. So we’ve been coming here since then. Finally moved here in 2009 and never looked back. Michigan is a good place to be from, as they say.
 
Maybe so, but that's not always the fun way to live....I want to try some "real" moonshine, not the ABC store stuff! lol.

One of the reps that calls on us brings us the real stuff and some flavored stuff a couple times a year. One of the benefits of working at a small company, we keep it in the freezer, for "medicinal" reasons. You are welcome to stop by for a sampling if you are ever in town. Have a driver with you though, its POTENT stuff.

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What town in Michigan?
Mum and Dad moved here to WNC from Michigan in 1991. So we’ve been coming here since then. Finally moved here in 2009 and never looked back. Michigan is a good place to be from, as they say.
Outside of Napolean which is near Jackson.
 
You gotta change that. I'm a "teetotaler" as the old folks would say, and I still keep a gallon or two on hand.
I'm actively trying to change that! LOL. I don't know how to go about it though. You live near me....help me out here! I rarely drink either, but would love to try this.

Does that stuff really cost $100/gallon? A friend told me it did, but I never got to get any of it, and now we're not speaking...lol.
 
I've never tried moonshine, where are these people! LOL.
Be careful. My old boss man, used to say that stuff must be made of rubbers and boxing gloves 'cause anytime he ever had any all he wanted to do was fight or f!$k....:eek:
 
Be careful. My old boss man, used to say that stuff must be made of rubbers and boxing gloves 'cause anytime he ever had any all he wanted to do was fight or f!$k....:eek:
LOL.
 
I’ve been to a few different places but none are like NC. I can’t see myself moving to another state, and likely will never leave the house I’m in now. Old farmhouse with a little bit of land, a great woman and kid with a few critters running around and I’m set.
 
I grew up in So. California. It used to be a nice place, decades ago.

Felt more at home after moving here than I ever did there.
 
I was born in NC and, with the exception of my family travelling with my dad during the last eight years of his USAF career, have lived here all of my life. Mrs. bkv and I love to travel. We've seen some besutiful places in this country and around the world but nothing beats coming back home to NC.
 
I've lived in many places and traveled to a number of countries over the years...

Everything changes. It's the only constant.

Used to say NC would always be home and I always came back. The more the Triangle grows and the state changes, the less it feels that way. Who knows what the future holds...

There are few places that can compare to what NC holds...
 
I've lived in the Carolinas all my life and probably always will. Beaches, mountains, biotech, and the Clemson Tigers. What more do you need?
 
Born in SC, live in NC, probably retiring in SC...have lived in a lot of other states, but I'm here.

Family land is in SC.
 
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