Moving Away Due to Politics / Policy

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metcalfmafia
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Was having a chat with a friend today and thought this would be a good topic for the board. He had just moved to Savannah and talked about his new ability to get a "to go" draft from the bar due to no open container law in the city. Gotta admit I'm pretty jealous.

Have you ever moved to a different State, City, County due to the people or the policies in that place being like minded politically, spiritually, personally, to your own? My example above is more of a "fun" policy so obviously there are more serious ones that can sway someone as well. Thoughts?
packgrad
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Haven't done it in a while, but I was getting to go drinks at one of our local spots a couple/few months ago in Durham when I didn't have to drive. Was that allowance temporary?

My neighbor is researching a temporary move to another state due to restrictions here. I'll advise if he does, but feel it's just wishful thinking.

Edit.. no idea why it replied with the !
metcalfmafia
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In Savannah they will pour your beer into a plastic cup for you to drink as you're walking down the sidewalk or going into stores. The to go drinks around here are sealed for you to take home from my understanding.
packgrad
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Mine came in a plastic cup with a lid and a straw. To be specific, it was a painkiller, and it and it's friends killed the pain.
Packchem91
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metcalfmafia said:

In Savannah they will pour your beer into a plastic cup for you to drink as you're walking down the sidewalk or going into stores. The to go drinks around here are sealed for you to take home from my understanding.
New Orleans comes to mind. Of course, lots of crime comes with that level of intoxication visitors.
vanuel
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I have always liked living in NC, but the quality of life here is not what it once was, IMO. If I was single and didn't have work attachments here, I would probably move out west to somewhere a lot more rural and more in line with my political leanings. I am not fond of the idea of having to live in a blue state and I think that is where we are headed. My wife and I have briefly talked about the possibility of not being here at some point which seemed unthinkable 10 years ago. At one point I was thinking of moving to the coast, but that's getting to be as crowded as it is here.
vanuel
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Packchem91 said:

metcalfmafia said:

In Savannah they will pour your beer into a plastic cup for you to drink as you're walking down the sidewalk or going into stores. The to go drinks around here are sealed for you to take home from my understanding.
New Orleans comes to mind. Of course, lots of crime comes with that level of intoxication visitors.
New Orleans is great to visit, but I definitely don't want to live there.
ciscopack
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vanuel said:

I have always liked living in NC, but the quality of life here is not what it once was, IMO. If I was single and didn't have work attachments here, I would probably move out west to somewhere a lot more rural and more in line with my political leanings. I am not fond of the idea of having to live in a blue state and I think that is where we are headed. My wife and I have briefly talked about the possibility of not being here at some point which seemed unthinkable 10 years ago. At one point I was thinking of moving to the coast, but that's getting to be as crowded as it is here.
I remember one of the first houses I built was for a guy from CA who was poor but he owned 1/2-1 acre land in the right place and he got something like $2M dollars for it. He built a really nice house back then of cedar siding and over 2400 sq. ft. for $189,000 and he plenty of cash left over. The same happens with many people who have moved here from elsewhere. They sell and double the size of the house they sold and have many thousands leftover to spend.

I've mostly lived in rural NC for 64 years and in the late 70's I knew everyone that lived within 3-4-5 miles. I'm still fairly rural but not so much. We've been drowned. I own some land that my 6th Great-granddad owned in the mid-1700's...King George's former land; you know, 500 acres, a mule, a cow, a goat, 5 chickens and a dog. I own some land my 6th G-grandma owned when her husband died...she had 2 kids after he died. I own some my granddad purchased in the early 1900's and some he inherited and some a GGG and GG granddad owned in the mid and late 1800's. When I was young it was worth around $1000/acre, in the late 1980's some was worth $3000-4000/acre and now some are trying to throw $75,000/acre at some and even more at some other.

Politics it was more even keel back in the day....not so much nutty left or nutty right. That's how I saw it anyway, maybe I was blind? Of the last 32 terms of the NC governors office, 28 terms were Democrats; I remember Terry Sanford but I don't remember Luther Hodges.

The weather has changed! If you've grown a garden since the 50's or 60's or watched pond and ocean waters....you KNOW it has changed!!! I joke with friends that I'm going to Vermont or Maine and buy me some rural land and relax.....to get away from the great number of Yanks. I expect the rural mountains to be like us soon and I know many who have moved there. Screw the beach from May thru Sept.; the other months I can take. I know a lot of people who have bought land in Montana and South Dakota too. They invite me to go hunting or fishing but I have not gone yet.
Oldsouljer
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vanuel said:

I have always liked living in NC, but the quality of life here is not what it once was, IMO. If I was single and didn't have work attachments here, I would probably move out west to somewhere a lot more rural and more in line with my political leanings. I am not fond of the idea of having to live in a blue state and I think that is where we are headed. My wife and I have briefly talked about the possibility of not being here at some point which seemed unthinkable 10 years ago. At one point I was thinking of moving to the coast, but that's getting to be as crowded as it is here.
NC is certainly in a flux at the moment but I dont know that it's going blue like you might think due to migrants or even young native North Carolinians indoctrinated into totalitarianism by our UNC system. Some of those migrants are fleeing blue states knowing WHY they are fleeing. Example: There's a couple from Connecticut in my neighborhood who go to the NRA convention almost yearly. I've also noticed more Hispanics drifting rightward, possibly because their Catholicism is increasingly clashing with Democrat positions, but maybe because they've already had firsthand experience with socialism.
wilmwolf
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Every year the thought of moving out to the middle of nowhere gets more and more appealing to me. Of course, every year the middle of nowhere gets just a little bit smaller.
Just a guy on the sunshine squad.
caryking
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I'm a Cary native (not many of us) and still like it here. I will say, my wife and I really like being in Pine Knoll Sores. It's very quiet.

I always like to look at precinct voting in an area. Where I live in Cary, it works for my politics. Where my home is in Pine Knoll Shores, it REALLY works for my politics.

If we do anything, we will switch our primary residence to the coast and continue to spend more time there. Until my mother and my wife's father passes away, we really need to stay in Cary!
Packchem91
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vanuel said:

Packchem91 said:

metcalfmafia said:

In Savannah they will pour your beer into a plastic cup for you to drink as you're walking down the sidewalk or going into stores. The to go drinks around here are sealed for you to take home from my understanding.
New Orleans comes to mind. Of course, lots of crime comes with that level of intoxication visitors.
New Orleans is great to visit, but I definitely don't want to live there.
Absolutely -- that was actually my point. One or two times experiencing the revelry is enough! Now, if I went there, it would only be to eat! And get outside the city and enjoy the views in the delta. But living there....nah.
vanuel
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Packchem91 said:

vanuel said:

Packchem91 said:

metcalfmafia said:

In Savannah they will pour your beer into a plastic cup for you to drink as you're walking down the sidewalk or going into stores. The to go drinks around here are sealed for you to take home from my understanding.
New Orleans comes to mind. Of course, lots of crime comes with that level of intoxication visitors.
New Orleans is great to visit, but I definitely don't want to live there.
Absolutely -- that was actually my point. One or two times experiencing the revelry is enough! Now, if I went there, it would only be to eat! And get outside the city and enjoy the views in the delta. But living there....nah.
The food is fantastic. There are straight up hole in the wall joints that are outstanding.
Tootie4Pack
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vanuel said:

Packchem91 said:

metcalfmafia said:

In Savannah they will pour your beer into a plastic cup for you to drink as you're walking down the sidewalk or going into stores. The to go drinks around here are sealed for you to take home from my understanding.
New Orleans comes to mind. Of course, lots of crime comes with that level of intoxication visitors.
New Orleans is great to visit, but I definitely don't want to live there.

Everyone needs to be on Bourbon Street one time on Halloween night. Did it once. and another time was on Bourbon Street the night before Haloween.

Ther are a lot of interesting characters on Bourbon Street on any day and night. But Halloween night? I couldn't tell who was in a costume for Halloween and who just walked around in a costume 24/7.
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