10 Places in North Carolina You Should NEVER Move To
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Move to these places and you're gonna regret it big time!
Quick! Name the fastest growing states in the country. Florida, Texas, Colorado, yes yes yes. But would you guess North Carolina? It’s true. Due to a moderate climate, relatively low cost of living and TONS of jobs in many areas, this state is boomin, fella.
Lots of people are thinking about moving here, or already have moved here. If you’re one of them, places like the Raleigh metro area, and Charlotte, and along the coast are great picks. Although jobs near the coast are very limited. But there are lots of places in this state where you SHOULD NOT move. That’s what we’re gonna talk about today.
It’s a great state, but North Carolina has some issues, that’s for sure. The old North state has poverty, crime and drugs just like anywhere in this country. Most of this state’s trouble areas share similar things - shootings, welfare, ghetto tracts, and not a lot of opportunities for young families to get started. Nor are they places that you should retire. We’re going to take a look at ten such places. Let’s begin.
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I live in North Carolina and him saying Charlotte is safe is laughable!!
Yeah and it’s spilling over to Concord and the outer towns.
Amen to that
Haha
I'm In Morehead and it's a safe, and chill spot
Yeah, Charlotte is aiming for Baltimore and it will get there in 40 years!.....a
sewer system inundated with murderers!.....Start your evacuation plans soon!
The Carolinas, North and South Carolina, are two of the most beautiful states with good and decent folk. Beautiful beaches too.
Looking at the Outer Banks in a few years . Now not so sure.
The beaches SUCK EGGS In the carolinas! The sand is so fine < like baby powder> it hard to walk in it! The ocean looks like it
" just drops off " in the afternoon, but the water IS warm, { which brings in many sharks } many shark
attacks along the south-eastern coast.
Dont move to the south,
Those people dont take kindly to outsiders none to
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Born and raised in NC and this breaks my heart. My family is from King/Rural Hall on my dad’s side and Winston Salem on my mom’s. I was born in Winston but we moved around a lot as my dad was a mobile home salesman when I was a kid & he was the top ranked guy with his company so when a new store was opening, he was made manager and we moved. However, we moved to Whitsett, which is between Greensboro and Burlington, when I was 5 & my mom still lives in the same house to this day…50 years later.
I'm in Winston and more and more people are moving in and ruining it. We're looking for a house out in Stanleyville
Born in Winston-Salem. Still here in Pfafftown. We need to close the borders.
I was born in Winston and moved to king in 72 now live at Myrtle Beach
Also was in mobile home set up business thru 90s til 06
I know all these places, but glad I no longer live there.
Don’t encourage more people to move here to NC- it’s too crowded already!
Right, I moved down here a few years ago. And I see more people from where I’m then actual natives 😂😂😂. I came down here to get away from them 😂😂😂
@@david-lt9wj I will say it’s cheaper to live down here, I’m from Connecticut and it’s too expensive to live up there.
@@Midnightclublalady89 Its too close to Mitch McConnell's state and everyone knows those states are pea brained citizens !
@@Paperclown what CT or NC?
@@Paperclown ...... Lmmfao.......I'm From NC......& I Actually Agree.......With You......🙂👍🏾💯
Who else got this recommended and they live in North Carolina?
Edited wow I never got so many likes on a comment before 😂 also I’m from Greensboro born and raised !!
Update: 1/28/22 I maybe moving close to high point 😶🙁
Me
Lol Me!!🤣
@@NickJohnson well played
Lol
Near Rocky Mount!
Me..near rocky mount as well. Like 20 mins actually
Love how you incorporated old film footage of the state in your video. I ❤ stuff like that.
I grew up in Laurinburg, moved to Charlotte as soon as I graduated college, and lived there until I became a traveling Respiratory Therapist and moved around the country for several years. I had to go back to Laurinburg to live with an aunt when my heart went electrically and anatomically haywire and I could no longer work, after many misdiagnoses, that was fixed, but other parts of my body had suffered the consequences and I was permanently disabled. Now I live in northern NC in Mount Airy. It makes me sad my hometown made this list. I was so ready to get out as a teenager and so set against ever returning, even when forced by illness, but it IS my hometown. I do have great memories of it. Friday night lights at Pate Stadium and the main drag which was Main Street and Atkinson in a big circle. I know she's not the same now, but I hope she'll survive long enough to see a new life in the future. I know people there are trying hard to give her CPR. 💜
Wow i used to live in Mt. Airy years ago, you should check out that icecream truck in front of that gastation. last time i checked it was still there? i hope. Its been a while
Being born, and raised in North Carolina I can tell you the biggest problem with all of the growth. People move to North Carolina, and bring their bad habits with them, or they want North Carolina to be just like the place they just left. Those two things have ruined my state, and I'm not at all happy about that.
right on, got some people i know that complain about the boringness of my small town when they were from Syracuse. the outsiders ruined NC
Amen!
Same here lol
@@armandmadison6368 We'll that wasn't a we'll thought out comment for sure.
So right in SC also
When you're from North Carolina and have lived, visited, or have family in most of the places listed in the video...
Right. Grow up in Fayetteville, dad's family is from Albemarle. Probably why I had no problem cruising Crenshaw
Grow up in Fayetteville (Hopemills) and have family and friends in probably 6 out 10 of these
He doing extra it’s not that bad
Word. I have family in all those places except Albemarle and Winston Salem....
folks are good there lol
Thanks for educating us!!! We appreciate this!
I recognized The Hoskins area in Charlotte in your intro video! Been thru that area a many a day! Rode my school bus to Northwest Junior High back in the 70's down that very rd. Brought back memories!
Charlotte used to be cheap now everybody’s coming here and the rent triple
I know
Same for Raleigh. Cost of living is shooting up like a mf in this city.
Same with Asheville
Same for Durham
Voted best place to live right after everyone flooded Atlanta
I'm from south america and those places look like paradise to me. You don't even have walls around your houses, sharp wires and electric fences
The people can walk about on the moon and drop billions tons bombs on Laos yet stopping the crrptn and caring about others is beyond their ability. But meanwhile they voted for a man who pays out millions because of sex issues. They should have thought about the future when they killed vthe 6 million folks there. Yeah we realise the offenders were religous Europeans etc. Nice eh?
Looks are deceiving. Also walls and wires protect you...
Only because the government doesn't allow people to build electric fences, sharp wires, and walls around their house in these places. The government places restrictions on the property making it illegal to do so
God Bless you.
That why we have guns
Thank you for posting that! And it was funny too! Appreciate it!, 💜
That was the best video I've ever seen. Thank you.
Well I knew Fayetteville was going to be on the list.
Been here for 38 years so I know exactly how you knew lol. Given the profile pic I assume you are, or have been, stationed here. Thank you for your service!
@@bigcazz8085 I’m still stuck in Fayetteville lol
Fayettenam lol he going in on nc
Why did I tap on this video because I knew it would be there😂
And did 😂😩🗣
A lot of areas in NC were previously dependent on tobacco, textiles, and furniture. All three of these industries collapsed on nearly the same curve in the 80's and 90's. If an area was dependent on all three, that area suffered more than most. The Charlotte area had banking to fall back on, and the Raleigh area had tech. It would be nice to see the other areas find their footing once again.
They should legalize weed than
@@deweyHL4L They were until the 'small guv'mint' Republicans had their say.
I worked at a couple furniture factories in High Point & Thomasville. When the millionaire stockholders were allowed to seel off & move to Mexico, we suddenly had ghost towns.. Not sure what the solution is but you can't let rich people & churches keep getting off w/o paying taxes like the rest of us
@@deweyHL4L than?
Exactly!! And where are those jobs now?? Why are they not still here in NC? Because GREEDY corporate types saw a chance to have **super-cheap** labor and no threat of unions by moving their operations to __________?
Lived in Asheville for a short amount of time. Crime and homelessness was really high, but I enjoyed living there a lot. Kind people and lots of stuff to do.
💯💯
Been here 5 years and have not met amean spirited person yet.( well, no one complaining about where we came from anyway)
My g@y buddy moved there. I heard it was g@y-friendly. His name is Dale. Do you know him?
😮 Sorry, my husband and I went to Ashville to check out a possible move to retire to from Westchester, NY. It was touted as the top 10 places in the US to retire in. We flew their a year and a half ago. We arrived on a Wednesday and flew home Sunday.
Ashville itself, the city was full of Meth addicts and homeless. Also wannabe hippies and artists. We were treated as "strangers" right away. People were not kind or friendly especially women for some reason. The men were better.
Every day we drove to different towns; Black Mountain, Hendersonville, Maggieville e.t.c. Hendersonville was about the best out of the lot though it was not my cup of tea. EVERY OTHER TOWN was shockingly horrible. Maggieville was really bad. The main strip of stores was so run down. They all looked out of business. Houses were for sale for $600k! Unreal. I could not wait to get home. I knew by Friday afternoon that it was all propaganda on the internet! A terrible shame.
Been reading some awful stuff about NC. I knew Charlotte was a crime capitol, but now everything seems to have been taken over. @@sheilaperrone7654
Wilmington NC born and raised. I’m only 25 but I’ve watched tourists and those out of state who relocate completely ruin my small beach town. Now it takes 30+ minutes just to get from one side of town to the other and we have new developments everywhere. And the never ending big businesses have run out many of the local business I knew and loved. So what was once a nice quiet artsy beach town is now full of rich white entitled retirees. It’s so sad I can’t even afford to live in the city I was born and raised. I hate how popular NC has become for retirees.
I feel your pain. We moved there in 1986 and natives told us THEN that it used to be small town. College Road was 2 lanes from Oleander all the way to Carolina Beach, and Independence Blvd stopped at Shipyard. We moved across country in 2014, although our daughter still lives there. We left due to the frequent tropical systems. Good luck with the overpopulation😔
Those out of state transplants are likely the reason your town is not a gutter
@aaolsen1 You are only 25, and just learned a big lesson. Conservatives like to enjoy things as they are. But Liberals move in and immediately set about changing the character of the community using everybody else’s tax dollars so that eventually nobody can afford to live there because of the tax burden. Then they move out and repeat the same somewhere else, like Wilmington.
I lived in Wilmington in the 70s. It was a terrific, laid back town then. Now it's a mass of pretentiousness.
I'm with you. I do a lot of work in Wilmington
I went to school in Winston-Salem, lived & worked in High Point, lived in Fayetteville and worked in Lumberton. Each one had good areas and bad areas just like most places in the US. It’s a beautiful state with some of the best people I’ve ever known.
Winston Salem in it better than what you think! It is really fun!
Fun fact don't go too Durham
Thanks from Lumberton,NC!!
@@berrybarfield5056 respect
@@coreyclayjr.5622 Born and raised there. Was home visiting family last month and had a great time. I'll be back in October. Thanks for the advice.
I'm from Baltimore City, and NC is Heaven compared to the area's I lived. I love it in NC. There's bad places everywhere. People, don't get it confused. There's a lot of good places in NC.
I second this. I just moved here from Philly.
You guys are turning North Carolina into the east coast lol you vote and support the same bs that ruined your state
Yep you're definitely from Baltimore, Just by stating Baltimore City! I'm quite sure that went over people heads lol
Yeah I’m watching the sky and I’m thinking like I would much rather spend the rest of my life in Fayetteville North Carolina then a lot more rough places up north.
Facts
I lived much of my life in Pamlico County on the waterfront. Where it used to be all woods, tobacco and soy farms, 19th century churches and fishing boats, land is being snapped up by rich retirees from New York who have no concept of hurricanes. I also lived in Charlotte for a while. I came back to visit last summer and can't believe how crowded it's become, even though housing prices are outrageous there now. We bought a house in the University City area for $135K; last I looked it was more than double that now.
It’s good that neither of my two home towns are in this video.
Also if you haven’t already visit pilot mountain in NC it’s beautiful my family and I hiked up it!
As a former police officer in Charlotte, I can say that crime there is just as bad or worse than or in other cities in NC. Raleigh/Durham same. Americans are looking for Shangri-la but that is a fantasy place. Life just seems to be a series of compromises. The nicer the place the higher the rent. If you can afford to live in the house on the hill, go for it. But, you will live a life of isolation. Choose your poison.
Charlotte is pretty bad depending on where you go, but the real problem is what spreads to other cities from Charlotte. All the drugs go the clt and spreads to other cites. I'm in Gastonia we have been getting worse and worse, especially this past few weeks where it's practically a shooting every day
IDC about the life of isolation, I prefer it. Don't care if my house is on the hill or a two bedroom shack in the woods, just want to be left alone and not have people up my rear. And for those who eould steal my property to remember that I am like them, I also value my things more than their life.
Thank you this info! But isn’t it “pick your poison”?
Look at the crime in Beverly Hills. It's really bad there too.
I lived in the Raleigh-Durham area in the suburbs and boy is it expensive to live there. I been to Sanford and it's cheaper to live there and the crime rate is lower than those smaller towns mentioned in this videos. There's alot of work.
It's gonna be too far from Garner. But I'm planning on moving to the Smithfield-Selma area.
Charlotte may have a lot of jobs but its getting way over crowded and the crime is going up as well as the cost of living.
Yes
its the cali for us un in nc
@@Rpd264. 100% the California, I would know being from Cali.
Ditto for the Raleigh area--unless you have an excellent paying job? You're going to end up with an insane commute. You want a place where the jobs pay you enough to live there; at least at one point, Asheville's cost of living was bad enough that the nurses working locally couldn't afford to live in town on their pay... (The VA hospital there is excellent, the other hospital's a disaster.)
@@ryohoshi8445 damn, I moved from Cali because it was to expensive to start a life for a young adult, I was living paycheck to paycheck.
Nick singin' at the end of the video...
priceless!! 🤣🤣
Man: I enjoyed your video a lot. Very informative and entertaining. Keep doing your excellent work. Best wishes
What about the "criminal" that ran all those red lights while making this video?
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I was thinkin the same. Man this dude run alot of reds 😂😂 guess he dont count
ROFL I saw that also!!!!!
RIGHTTTTTTT
I died when I seen this comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Duke University is also located in Durham.....just saying. 😁 Honestly, go visit and make your own mind up about where you want to live.
Exactly. He picked the absolute worst parts of every city listed. I never experienced any of this stuff and I’ve lived here all my life and have family and friends in all of the cities listed. We live rather nicely here and are educated too!
All the dudes I went to BCT with that were from Durham only talked about how much violence there was, how the corner store down the road from their school would get robbed almost every week, how students would get shot etc.
I always thought that Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill were nice places to party and safer than the north east.
@@gabrielhinsley4142 That is VERY true for Durham BUT, that’s the worst part of the city! Durham is also beautiful and very “well off.”
This video is horrible and he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. He only filmed 2 or 3 streets near old downtown Durham which most cities have and which look the same. He filmed nothing of Duke Hospital and Dukes campuses, the gorgeous homes in the city, the unique shops and restaurants - NOTHING. HES OBVIOUSLY SOMEONE WHO KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT Durham! !
I really love your channel Sir.
Very beautiful video.
Happy New Year!
Omg! I LOVED your song at the end! You should have mentioned Angier NC. I've lived there twice. It's a s***hole. Loved your video!
I moved to Durham in 1997 from ohio when I was 17 and I'm still here it's a lovely place. If you are not into drugs or gangs you have nothing to worry about .
Exactly
I'm not. I'm just from the hood n all my family is. I'm good in every hood.
@@YoungBreeze252 just be safe
I would be worrying about my kids and grandkids..
God bless you and your State!!😇
I knew a lot of Davis's that moved from Ohio to Durham. Interesting that Durham was once an extremely wealthy area with a slew of small businesses. One of the many "Black Wallstreet's".
I grew up in Winston-Salem, went to college in Greensboro and was never robbed until I moved to Richmond, VA!
As a Virginian, I can confirm, Richmond will rob you.
Seriously Richmond, how RUDE! What is wrong with people?!!
Invest into a 🔫
Yes that place is nothing but trouble. I live down the road in williamsburg and it's a night and day difference.
Richmond has been bad for decades! I use to hate spending my summers there as a kid and young teen!
Great video. 100% truth.
Was born in raised in Laurinburg. After watching this I'm super proud of myself for making it out --living in it and looking back it was really rundown, but it didn't feel all that unsafe (although many neighborhoods were, we lived out in the sticks). I moved to Washington DC area for a long time then moved back to Greensboro. I don't agree with his last minute assessment lumping Greensboro in --it's a beautiful city with TONS of beautiful neighborhoods and safe schools. There are pockets of crime and low income areas but it's not nearly as bad as the places he mentioned. Very good video!
I was to Greensboro once about 40 years ago. It had very pretty neighborhoods.
I lived in Greensboro for a few months, when first moved to NC in my car - working homeless. The Sheetz gas stations, I would rotate them and sleep in their parking lot. No one bothered me
Then migrated to Asheville, found a working homeless parking lot outside of kohl's, found the homeless including the street and moutain people to be well mannered, decent people (though I call Asheville a$$holeville, because other than the homeless and low income, a lot of the people are narcissistic and mean, incredibly wealthy but don't take care of the town)
Finally got promoted and am now a traveler Field Technician, the company pays for Hilton2 and have a nice salary :) glad I came here. Beautiful absolutely beautiful lovely state ❤️
@@courtneymeyers82Congrats on your success.
This Dude is hilarious!!! I still rep NC better yet & still live in NC Charlotte ...No matter where you go it’s always going to be areas with pros & cons...good or bad...not just NC!
EXACTLY!!!!!
@@jennifersigman3080 I said the same thing... it makes no sense to me lol
I'm I'm Charlotte bro. Chillin.
He literally said that in the beginning are you deaf?
When he Said , Raleigh and Charlotte and the Coast were safe,………. My girlfriend and I both belted out……..”SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!!”
I was watching this thinking I can't believe you talking about Winston Salem like this. I really enjoyed living in the city I'd definitely put it near or above the Durham area imo. The downtown is fun and a ton of great food, I'd love to move back if I could.
Then you throw my hometown Laurinburg on the list lol. I wouldn't love to move back but Laurinburg does have some good people. That area in general just needs more opportunities.
Too many people from far away places here now. Greensboro has become the butt hole of our once Great State, the Old North State. So blessed to have a home in another State and plan to relocate when my spouse retires. No regrets! Just fond memories of long ago of the way it used to be. As for the other towns and cities you mentioned, you're spot on. Thank you.
I love North Carolina!!! I have left a few times but always came right back. You have the mountains on one end and the coast on the other end. A very beautiful state but of course there are crimes and drugs. You just have to do your best in living your life.
Yes Kelly!
If you're born and raised in NC, you never get it gotta our DNA
Does it have a lot of rain and cloudy skies?
ME TOO BUT I WANT TEXAS NEXT.
I've been to Mt Airy and love it----- would move there in a heartbeat but live outside Boston
I worked in Durham during the late 90s/early 2000s. Around 3-4 am into the late hours of the morning for a newspaper redelivering missed deliveries. It was rough, and yes, often dangerous, but it taught me something about "ghetto" neighborhoods, as you so often put it.
There used to be an elderly lady who would take us into her home right off the street and offer us refreshments and conversation. We got some of the best tacos we ever had in our lives at about 6 am from a food shack, we ate at local restaurants where we were treated more like a guest at church than an outsider. We interacted with people we may have never come into contact with otherwise, so quick to help us find locations, people that would give you the clothes off their back...
And I can tell you this, it taught me bad neighborhoods are most of the time only 2% bad people, everyone else is just trying to get by and mind their own business.
Durham has also changed A LOT since the early 2000s. Downtown isn’t as bad anymore.
I live in Durham and this is how life is
You are exactly right. Some of the nicest people I've ever met were some of the poorest people, but just as kindhearted. Just good people
In certain areas you have to be cautious I been living in Durham my whole life. But to be honest what city is really safe tho?.🤫🤔
It’s a lot of good people in less fortunate neighborhoods
I dont like called N.C. home,i truly love it,from the coastal plains to the mountains,just Damn Beautiful,Thanks!!
At the 6:17 mark the building on the corner is my grandfather's old pool hall, Robbins Billiards. It was an awesome place when I was a kid and my dad was working there in the 60's, but it was rough then...
I'm from Raleigh and was making a delivery in Durham when my truck broke down. I called a towing company in Raleigh for a tow. They told me they don't go to Durham after dark.
Same for Uber drivers here in Miami
That’s sad. I live in Durham. I am educated and and feel completely safe here! It depends on where you live. Just like every city, Raleigh and Wilmington included, has bad parts.
@@nyeshahicks8207 You are right. There are pockets in Raleigh that I stay away from, especially after dark.
@@rkbllcI have lived and worked in education in Raleigh 4 many years before moving back to New York 4 another job. Raleigh is very nice and not that dangerous unless ur out at night in a few seedy areas of Bragg St or Raleigh North projects...... Most of the old projects were torn down. I am about to return to Raleigh 4 good and can't wait. There r so many relaxing parks, lakes...7 or 8 lakes, ponds, rivers, wide open beautiful meadows as well as beautiful city blocks as it becomes more modern. In 2018 I visited & went to the Six forks road exit at the beltline and saw the new development of city blocks that reminded me of Atlanta or even New York. Very beautiful city blocks with condos and shops and all the amenities within walking distance on the bottom floors of these high rise buildings. There r plans 4 more of this development in Raleigh and I can wait to see the transition, but without affecting 2 much green space. Simply wonderful city, that I appreciate more after returning to tired New York with the maddening crowd of young gun toting psychos. Raleigh's moderate climate and numerous colleges 6 or 7 for a small city makes it really progressive.
@@noelsmythe7391 I moved here in 1990 - it's amazing the changes that I have seen. Wishing you a safe return.
I lived in NC in the 90’s and I thought it was a beautiful state, all states have bad areas
He literally said that in the beginning of the video
@@LanaRioss👆
@@BigE-qx1jb huh
Yes all States have bad areas, hopefully NC will regain it's former glory. Hopefully, they won't treat legal weed just as with the lottery when it came to VA. It's a fact, many went for 5-7 years & played the game in VA & helped them to rebuild their school systems, prisons, etc.
We can't allow the same to happen once weed stores are setup & running! This would be the chance for the few family farmers who wants to stay in the business to prosper, especially in the eastern part of the State.
Not to mention, it costs a lot to keep folks locked up over marijuana convictions for years upon years.
@@charlestilley2576 Blacks is all i will say , not rocket science .
Salisbury has a VA hospital, which is what brings a lot of people into town. There are some pretty and interesting homes around the historic downtown area. Fayetteville is a military town, which could account for the STD and crime rate.
My dad was raised in Salisbury and we went there from the 80’s until late 90’s. It’s sad to hear it portrayed this way. I used to love going there.
It's not its almost the exact same the slightest bit worse
These places are not that bad as someone who’s from detroit and lived in NC for many years.. there is something about this state. I love it.
Too correct.💯💯💯
unless you move in the hoods
Dang that’s not very hopeful considering you are comparing to Detroit....I just recently moved out of High Point had been there my whole life they just got crazy but I don’t think it’s 100% from people that live in High Point I think a lot comes from all surrounding areas
@@geronimopratt7976. How can one speak ill of a slow pace town where you can sit out on your porch in a rocking chair or swing on a warm summer evening? Sure, you might be able to do the same in a big city but.....the calming, laid-back atmosphere won't be there.
Most of these small towns in NC have a Mayberry feel.
This was on my recomended but I guess I know why.... because I'm from NC 🤣
This is in mine and I live in MO. 😂
Recommended to me also, I’m across the boarder in Virginia.
Great channel! Kudos!
Thanks for the information
You ran that red light in High Point!
LOL 😆😂
😂😂😂
Highpoint not like that lol
High point and Winston is not bad at all. Of course there's places you don't go, but that is like that everywhere.
I saw that. 😂😂😂
I live in Charlotte DO NOT COME HERE. it's overpriced and getting overcrowded 😂
My bf he is living in charlotte he is good even he using😂😂😂😂
POV, they are building a new apartment complex near your house
Coming soon 3 bedroom 2.5 bath large corner lot fenced in backyard 4 miles from Lake Wylie, 9 miles from the airport and 12 miles from downtown.
Yup
Traffic a Nitemare, Daymare
Wrecks every day, and 1 mph on interstates
Hey! That's my hometown. Kinston. I live in Texas now. Kinston never recovered from the closing of the Dupont plant from the early 90's.
Great commentary
I'm mad he just casually drove past my property and didn't stop. 😂
🙄☺😊😁😀😆😅😂
😂😂😂
Is your property near where he ran the red light.
@@vazdiwasxzo9227found another proud hallway monitor...
“Clicks video to make sure my city isn’t on the list”
Edit: my city was on the list 😔
Find Hertford NC
Mine wasn't, but daaaang everything around me was! And I gotta disagree with him on a lot
🤣 same I had to make sure
My city Wasnt on the list.
I live in erect, nc
Mine wasn't... the closest was an hour a way... lol
This made me want to go watch an old black n white movie! I used to live in swansboro and Hubert. I loved it. Really close to the beaches, such as emerald isle, and at the other end, Morehead city.
I’m in the triad I went through lumberton n whytville n laugh where is the crime at 😂😂😂😂great video
I’m from NC and I personally love my state! How about sharing the great parts of this beautiful state!
Just don’t tell them to move here. There are too many people here already!
The only beautiful part of this jackass state is when its in the rear view mirror as you're LEAVING it
@@garnetjohnson763 Please tell everybody you know that so maybe so many people will quit moving here and messing up our state!
@@lisajoy9588 this state was wayyyy messed up already.
@@garnetjohnson763 Yeah theyre just mad cuz they have no education so they think telling people not to live there will magically drive down the cost of housing
A homeless man once told me *" you couldn't pay me to live in High Point"*
- I'm from Greensboro by the way 😂
I from hp i hate it
@@saundrachapman-fisher4690 I don't blame you.
I'm in Greensboro to
I live in High Point! It’s getting bad!
HP is the Heroin capital of NC
I was going to buy a house in Kinston many years ago because my mother and my brother lived there. My mother talked me out of it and I'm glad that she did.
Lots of potential, but nothing happening in 2023.
Some of you folks ought to visit
Hickory NC. Chances are you might be glad to get back home.
Curious, I was born and raised inNC and have lived the greater portion of my life here and I love it. NC is in transition into unknown territory. When I was a boy in the 50s NC was primarily an agrarian society. With modernisation of farm machinery, the loss of tobacco, and corporate agriculture taking over the greater portion of farm land is disappearing, In the North it's the Rust Belt, here in the Bible Belt we have the Rot Belt...farming is rotting. Many of the noted towns and cities in this vid are dying because nothing has come to replace the income structure farming generated. Sadly, these communities will wither and, at best, just a very few people will stay to sustain them. North Carolina will, at some point, rise from the ashes of its lost agrarian life and become a decent place for all of its people. I lived in the thriving metropolis of Aurora on the south bank of the Pamilico river as a boy. It was determined to be dying then, but 65 years later it is still there, despite aspirations of becoming a 'boom town' when Texas Gulf started mining phosphate. Those dreams never manifested. None the less, Aurora is still alive, not a shining star by any means but, still alive. It has potential to grow and thrive in a new century...all the places in you video do too.
Wow Phil!!!
Mr. Hewett my mother was born and raised in Blount Creek and lived her last days in Washington, NC. I know Aurora well having spent many summers with my grandparents who were tobacco farmers. There has definitely been development over the years but still has the small hometown feel.
Also from small town NC. You are exactly right- ENC died with tobacco. It left NC farmers nothing profitable to grow that can't be also be grown in the midwest or Idaho on a larger scale.
My small town is Princeton, about two hours from your tidewater town of Aurora. It was a mill town in the 1900s, now only I-95 now separates us from the creeping exurbs of Raleigh.
I hope we find a way to bring back local independent farming to fill the void left by tobacco. My grandparents shared acreage with the extended family, grew the best tasting peanuts, potatoes, corn, peas, beans. The soil here is great, I buy as much local as is available. I miss planting and harvesting with my family. Small scale but so rewarding in ways money can't buy.
I live off Stough alley in Kinston. It ain’t that bad. We have a nice ballpark and a water park down the road. Well my neighborhood is ran down and there aren’t many jobs. I have had two dead people end up on my porch this past year. Also I’m the only white guy in my neighborhood.
Have lived in eastern NC for over half my life. Originally from Baltimore and I don’t ever plan on living there anymore. NC is home and has plenty of good places to live. Many of the places listed are correct, but manageable. NC is a great place to live in my opinion.
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NC is one of the WORST states in US. It is near the bottom on almost every conceivable metric. That's a COLD HARD FACT! I can't wait to GTFO!
I haven't been in NC Since the late 80's when Pops took me and my sister to meet our grandma and his side of the family.. his whole family from NC.. small town out there. I grew up in Cali so I didn't get to see his family as often as I would've loved to.. I'm Older now, I can't wait to visit again
I'm just now getting to this. I'm from Lexington, N.C. thanks for the shout out to Shotsberry.
The vids of bad/worst places seem to bring out the best in Nick's monologue & analysis.
Haha ok!
@@NickJohnson well it's true!
@@martcichocki5571 .. Apparently someone dosen't like hearing the truth.
@@d.o.t.collector5359 that fact applies to more than travel vids!
So we not gone talk about at 6:55 how you ran thru that red light ?!...
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Right
Word 😂😂😂😂😂
Too busy being bias borderline racists
Sad to say but my opinion of his opinion came down a few notches! You want Respect you need to show some Respect...just saying...but another view was...😲😱 He just totally ran that red light 😲💩😂😂😂😂😂
BAD,BAD,BAD...
I live in Salisbury and your partially right you make it seem alot worse than it actually is
The beautiful Wilmington, NC in the beginning 💙
Just came to say Durham is awesome. I’ve lived all over the state, durham is my favorite city.
Hello how are you doing today I hope everything is going well
Good morning
Me living in Winston rn : 👁 👄 👁. Haha, all jokes aside I love Winston and there’s lots of neat parks and restaurants and coffee shops/breweries here!
Dewey's Bakery!!! 😍💜
Was expecting Goldsboro but I’m not surprised Fayetteville is on this list.
Unfortunately this gentleman is 100% spot on. As a native NC it’s so sad to see the decline in the small towns. 😢
100% wrong about Albemarle lol. It’s getting over 5,000 homes and 10 new home developments within the next five years. Not every small town is declining.
Agreed it sad for people to feel scared just walking in a parking lot in NC😢
Thank those like Clinton and old man Bush who "got rid of" industry. (not everybody is a rocket scientist, you know)
I've been told that CARY NC stands for Containment Area for Relocated Yankees.
Interesting... I work in Cary 4 days a week and all I see is foreign people
I'm sure it was a joke, but Cary is popular with northerners. I came from Michigan myself.
@@mrdovie47 cool it's one of the best places to live in America
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Add along to that the People's republic of Chapel Hill!
Me being someone that grew up in Fayetteville in the 90s. I can truly say they are doing a hell of a lot better and it’s certainly improving.
Good hope so!
@@NickJohnson they are trying to get rid of the hoods. Some are there still. But a lot have been replaced with nicer homes and apartments.
I agree. I grew up in Campbell Terrace and Topeka Heights
I used to live in a neighborhood called “Groview Terrace,” They have demolishes the ones I live in and replaced them with modern apartments 😄
"me" being someone who grew up = "me" grew up...government "education". "I" grew up, not "me grew up". The problem is lack of true education,
I knew you'd include Kinston,,,,;)
NC was once considered, maybe still is, the golden leaf state because of tobacco. As much as cigarettes cost nowadays it's still cheaper here than most places. I grew up in Greenville and most of what you said was right but there has been some places that were just as bad as you mentioned. The area I live in is considerably safe but can still hear gunshots from a distance at night.
I had to run through so many red lights to get here this early.
Ironically, I saw them running a red light in this video.
I really appreciate the video showing the streets of High Point. The driver ran a red light, and they damn well should have. Don't ever stop in that neighborhood, just keep on moving along.
Tarboro
He was on Main St. He could’ve stopped at the light lmfao.
@@ajhowell20 no cap😂
Is it sketchy? We live in Pittsboro & are going there for my daughters dance competition in a few weeks.
Whhhhhy???
I feel really bad for people who live their whole lives in poverty in towns like these. I feel bad, too, for people who remain in towns that were good and pleasant at one time but have hopelessly deteriorated. The memories of the good ole days must be bittersweet and painful for them.
Mostly just bitter. NAFTA killed Robeson and Scotland County. Textile jobs were it. There are some manufacturing jobs there now, but it will be a long time before they're nice again, if ever.
@@ethansmith9065 I went to college in NC in the 1970s and a friend's family had owned a mill in Scotland County that closed. She went from wealthy to poor in a year. She once said in a thick southern drawl, "Nobody knows how hard my daddy worked to keep that mill open." It was like Gone With The Wind right in front of you.
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Thank the greed of corporate officials who gave no thought to American employees when given the opportunity of cheap, slave labor in Asia.
Irving Tx is a good example of this. In the 80's/90's it was a nice place and has only gotten worse since the late 90's
@@ethansmith9065RobCo officials killed it. “Killed” it? HAHA! Nothing was ever there to be killed. Most of NC, a lot of the S.E. has been this same exact way since like 1800. You can’t have progress when you CHOOSE not to.
I drove through Kinston in my Maserati. I didn't actually feel unsafe. We got stared at, but I expected it with my supercar. They have a fantastic museum!
It's funny you mentioned that you drive the biggest POS made on planet earth!
God, Maseratis are totally garbage that only a complete moron would buy!!!
And you thought it was a bragging point!
People figured you had enough problems driving that turd on wheels, so they left you alone.
Didn't bother to do any research before you spent more than $200 on it?
This video is a great advisory tool for those who live in fear and get most of their life experiences from the internet.
Ive lived in WInston Salem my whole life. Love it. Don’t listen to everything you hear; Winston-Salem is up and coming over the last 10 years. Especially downtown.
Exactly
I've been here 21 years. We've had our share of crime, but it's not as bad as many make it out to be. I'll stay here before moving to places such as Chicago, Miami and NY City...and I'm sure there are citizens in those cities that find their neighborhoods safer than Winston-Salem. It's all in the stats and rumors, I guess.
@@georgemoore528 it’s all in your lifestyle and where you stay, what you do, and who you hang with.
& high point is not as bad as this video implies
Yep you are right man. I am from Statesville and was over there the other day. The brewery scene is definitely blowing up. Downtown is coming along just great.
Can't believe Henderson wasn't in the top 10. This place unnerves me in the daylight. Got lost getting off of I85 and drove through it. I felt like I was a fish in the fish bowl, with all eyes on me.
I used to live right there in Fayetteville, Close to Skibo and Cliffdale. Used to go to that Walmart and never had issues. Mexican born and raised with bad english back in 2007. Never had an issue but great memories and friendly people
Ironically, every single “smaller” town was IDENTICAL to each other.
Thats NC for ya...
Yup and that’s why 50 years from now they are all going to be exactly the same... people in those places don’t like change, they run off of the old ideals that their grandpappy taught them and never accept outsiders... it’s really sad actually
RASICM MUST END!
@Cameron Betton yes it is !
I live in Durham and love it. It has it's problems but it more than makes up for it with it's many, many great qualities. But I appreciate you telling people not to move here.
You last sentence cracked me up. 😆 I know that's right...stay where you are. I'm from the Carolinas but I now live in Florida. Carolina will always have my heart.
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I was working there for a while. I liked it. Would’ve moved there if the Lord said the same, but he didn’t. I’m in Charlotte now. By the way of Wilmington, but spending these last six years after total loss due to a house fire in Winston Salem, Burlington/Mebane, Durham, Pilot Mountain, now Charlotte. It’s been interesting, that’s why I was interested in the video and what he had to say. I’m not where I want to settle yet. Pilot Mountain was nice however, I’m not ready to live a place like that. I had to think about my money. Maybe later.
My baby goes to Duke hospital, never had any problems. Tbe people that work there are cool too
Found this When I looked up Greensboro so I was getting ready to fight tooth and nail for my city.
But it wasn’t on the list so now I’ll just be friendly😊
I attended UNCG. Go Spartans!☺️
I lived in Black Mountain (east Buncombe county) for a while and watched that quaint little town turn into a tourist attraction and Asheville go in the toilet too. I wouldn't move back to NC for anything these days. It doesn't have the welcoming southern feel anymore.
yep...used to stop at nice little truckstop at Nebo, for best Peanut Butter Pie ! Gone now...
He clearly hasn’t been to Durham in a long time because their isn’t nothing run down about it. It has rough places in town just like Raleigh or Charlotte but it’s actually quite expensive to live here
Durham is the biggest crack town ever. It’s the worst. I lived there for years and had to move because it wasn’t a safe place to raise a family. Tearing down the old buildings don’t make it any better… it’s still a dump.
Glad he didn't talk about how black Wallstreet got destroyed and then there comes gentrification 😑
This whole video is bullshit.. Every town or city has a bad area
@@blazedeniro1512 everyone knows that dude why you so pressed?
Durham's a hole.
Been in NC over 8 years now. Due to my kinda work I've been to some of these towns. I concur that some of these places are rural which typically comes with high unemployment, drugs and poverty. Same as the small towns in Ohio where I'm from and Georgia where I lived for 10+ years. Overall though, NC has good sides of town and bad sides of the just like everywhere else.
You said it the best a lot of people don’t realize where you have a big city the rest will follw
That’s a perfect argument.
We have a Bar logo simular to the legs sculpture @ 9:25 its called the Bush Company here in Anchorage Ak, up in the mainland Ak they put it on t-shirts and hats
I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time , cuz well you right about it all 🤣🤣
I’m from Winston Salem and although I agree with most of the content I have to say that I am very certain that there is no state that doesn’t have similar issues or worse.
@@thefishhobbyist5478 oh wow kudos to you for taking the initiative to make a statement. Do you feel better now? Empowered and all that….? Lmao
@@thefishhobbyist5478 lmao, are you going to get in your own line for your little ‘EdUmikayshunal’ tour?
A bit like the blind leading the blind isn’t it??
@@thefishhobbyist5478 lmao, what you accomplished is proving that you apparently have very little to do in life that even resembles being productive. So sowwy if I hurt your whittle feelings.
Absolutely!
00 wow ha imagine that disabled and I have to prove myself to someone who controls the UA-cam comment sections. Oh wait a minute I guess you have very little to do to feel productive either but given how you have attacked me over a comment that I made made about my hometown it kind of paints very clear picture about what type of person you are, and the fact that you must lack some basic educational background your self.
And I’m guessing that you’re the type of person that laughs at disabled children and senior citizens crossing the road with walkers you know nothing about me what I have gone through and what I know or who I know and although it would be real easy to get some knocks in on you with this I think that you as an individual should really evaluate what it is about you that makes you feel that you have either the right or the foundation for that matter to attack someone that did not say anything to YOU at all. But you know what I’m gonna tell you what, considering that you seem to feel so in adequate that you need this little power trip to attack a female over some thing that she said, regarding a city that you feel partial to or you feel whatever towards if that’s what you need to do on a public forum to feel empowered and like a “big man” then you really are more in need than anybody really can understand and I sincerely hope and I mean this in all honesty, I sincerely and truly hope that nobody in YOUR family is ever treated the way that you apparently treat other people without provocation. And yes, I am angry that I am even forced to address this because generally speaking when I encounter people like you in the world I can laugh it off, but you just seem to be lacking some very basic etiquette, tact and well I’m going to just summit up this way, if you have nothing productive to say, you probably should not say anything at all and if you decide to attack someone for no reason you should probably think about how educated you are because right now the general consensus of those that are aware of the situation it’s not that I am the problem And granted not all of them, but there’s a few of them that I would wager probably have a whole lot more education than you do, and there painting a very unflattering image of what type of person you are probably like in real life, but they did bring up a very valid point people like you that act like this online typically are Nothing like the boisterous words that they put on screen but it’s very easy to hide who you really are on the Internet so I think that if I’m going to listen to any type of remarks about me or be impacted by any remarks about me it’s going to come from someone who HAS an education.
So I’m from rocky Mount and can honestly say you can’t take care of yourself AND a family with those “blue collar jobs” paying as little as they do it’s easier to judge when you’re on the outside looking in
I'm in Rocky Mount too!
So do i and this is very true
I'm from rocky mount too
Rock city
In my first amendment opinion privilenge, I think it's because of the corruption regarding unlawful arrests , citations due to the lack of bodycams & suvillence systems in NC . Hiring a lawyer or using a public defender that isnt corrupt in NC , can result in not buying a home due to the resource drain.
I live in Fayetteville. I can confirm crime rate is super high, but there’s stuff to do here. We have places like the movie theaters, golf, museums etc. There’s also Fort Bragg the biggest military base in the USA.
I left Kinston NC March 3, 2011. It saddens me when I go back to visit😞