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Worst places to live in NC

Darth Biscuit

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I live in the Hickory area. Nobody except northerners dislike it here.

I live in the Hickory area, have been my whole life. There is nothing bad about it. We're around an hour away from Boone, Asheville, Statesville and Charlotte. There's not a lot of attractions (outside of the speedway, mall, lake, and minor league team) but there are plenty of restaurants, and if you are really itching to do something uptown Charlotte is a fairly short drive away.

The people that do not like Hickory are the people that do not like rural/small town North Carolina. Namely, northerners. Not sure why they keep moving here. We're not any different than the dozens of other mid-sized cities. Nothing special, nothing bad. 

I just left after living there for 5 years. The area itself is beautiful and the location is pretty nice too. But, it is a NAFTA town through and through.

I remember when we moved to NC from Savannah, Hickory was expected to outpace Charlotte in growth. Then, the furniture packed up and left for the South China Sea. Now, empty mills and retail shops falling into dilapidation as far as the eye can see.

The education and employment opportunities are almost non existent, and the crime rate, unemployment rate and median income all bear that out.

There are some things I absolutely love about Hickory. (Glenn C Hilton is by far my favorite disc golf park in the state.) I hope that the city can finally recover from the industrial exodus 15 years ago. A public university would go a long way towards that end.

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yeah i lived there for years, off the north end of piney grove road. i'd have sworn we talked about it at the draft party, but i remember like three things from the draft party, so maybe not. i make it back that way on occasion for nostalgia's sake.

we'll have to get up to watch a game this season, might be cool to get a couple of the winston-salemites together at a bar

That'll be easy. We will be at the Ale House every Sunday in Winston with the newest chapter of the Roaring Riot...the Twin City Riot. We probably did talk about it but after your bromance with Josh Norman i forgot everything that happened. That poo was funny as hell.
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That'll be easy. We will be at the Ale House every Sunday in Winston with the newest chapter of the Roaring Riot...the Twin City Riot. We probably did talk about it but after your bromance with Josh Norman i forgot everything that happened. That poo was funny as hell.

awesome. i'll plan on making it over there for a game or two. someone tell cary collins to meet us up there, he probably doesn't remember anything about that night either

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I just left after living there for 5 years. The area itself is beautiful and the location is pretty nice too. But, it is a NAFTA town through and through.

I remember when we moved to NC from Savannah, Hickory was expected to outpace Charlotte in growth. Then, the furniture packed up and left for the South China Sea. Now, empty mills and retail shops falling into dilapidation as far as the eye can see.

They're taking some of those old mills now and turning them into businesses (like mini-shopping malls). The big mill that's been abandoned down Lenoir Rhyne Blvd (right near the Sherwin Williams and Fire Department) is the next one being redone. The big concern at the moment isn't the mills, it is that Corning might leave. Everything around the interstate looks pretty nice, though.

The education and employment opportunities are almost non existent, and the crime rate, unemployment rate and median income all bear that out.

Unemployment rate's actually not that bad anymore. I think we're slightly below state average. Income certainly took a hit, though.

There are some things I absolutely love about Hickory. (Glenn C Hilton is by far my favorite disc golf park in the state.) I hope that the city can finally recover from the industrial exodus 15 years ago. A public university would go a long way towards that end.

Technically speaking we do have one (CVCC) as well as the Appalachian State center over near CVCC. I go to CVCC and it's just fine. But a UNC System school would be perfect here. There's nothing along the interstate between App and UNC Greensboro, and a UNC Hickory could feasibly cover Stateville, Lincolnton, and Gastonia because Hickory is a fairly large metro area. 

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Rockingham/Hamlet is basically the same area. I would put it number 1. At least Forest City has some nice scenery. Literally the only thing in Richmond County is the Richmond Senior Raiders football team.

I can vouch for that. Might as well put Laurinburg on that list as well. Just an absolute poo hole
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From Whiteville, can confirm it fuging sucks.

Only thing worth a damn is the burger joints.

We used to drive over from Wilmington and play in this little pool hall that was on the second floor of a building in downtown Whiteville.  Can't remember the name of the joint. There was an old timer there that you'd pay $.50 to rack the balls.  We'd also kick the sh*t out of the Whiteville Wolfpack football team in our preseason scrimmages.  They were a good tune up.  Nowadays we drive over from Charlotte to Lake Waccamaw every Labor Day for the Take the Lake festival. 

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We used to drive over from Wilmington and play in this little pool hall that was on the second floor of a building in downtown Whiteville.  Can't remember the name of the joint. There was an old timer there that you'd pay $.50 to rack the balls.  We'd also kick the sh*t out of the Whiteville Wolfpack football team in our preseason scrimmages.  They were a good tune up.  Nowadays we drive over from Charlotte to Lake Waccamaw every Labor Day for the Take the Lake festival. 

Haha, yeah... Whiteville football off and on has been through some dry spells since Chester McGlockton graduated.  It's a shitty little town nowadays but a lot of people used to come in on the weekends from out of town for whatever reason and hang out around that pool hall and the 7/11 next to it, and cruise downtown.  Then they banned cruising in like the mid 90's and completely killed what little bit of life it had going on in it.  Now it's basically a ghost town.  I think the pool hall used to be called Billiard's back then... then it was Shooterz, and now it's the Corner Pocket or something.

Lake Waccamaw is a pretty nice little chill and relaxed place, but other than those kind of events like you mentioned... there still really ain't poo to do there either unless you've got a boat to mess around in the water with.

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