I am being relocated to Charlotte North Carolina?

Question

Being a girl from California and not having spent any time on the East Coast what should I expect?

Answer 1

The summers will be very hot. Your car will need an AC, but anything you buy in the South will come with it already.

Soy cheese, tofu and spinach pizza will be hard to find.

Coffee houses are available, but probably not as common as on the west coast.

Grits are sort of like cream of wheat - put a lot of salt and butter on them. They're also good mixed with your eggs and eaten along with a buttermilk buscuit.

Fried pork chops are good.

If you don't like cornbread the first time, try it again a few more times. Everyone's cornbread tastes different and good cornbread is worth having tried the bad stuff first.

'Tea' will be served cold over ice. No one will drink plain old hot tea.

Not sure about Charlotte's radio stations, but unless you listen to hip hop, the music on the radio will be different. Everything seems to be top 40, country or hip hop.

EDIT: good grief! The 'KKK' comments and homosexuals being shot on sight comments are ridiculous. I moved to Alabama from a Yankee state decades ago and the first incidence of racism I saw was when I was called a racist by a bum because I didn't give him money. There is some prejudice, obviously, and it DEFINITELY goes both ways but in real life if you just don't read the papers it's not as bad as people from outside the region are led to believe. You can make friends with people of other skin color and even date them without being arrested or shot.

Homosexuals 'come out' and don't get fired from their job, etc. Unless you travel in those circles, though, you probably won't notice as many homosexuals and people in the South don't feel compelled to ensure there's a homosexual in their group of friends, but that's a far cry from shooting them on sight.

Answer 2

North Carolina is a nice place. The people are friendly, and the climate is not bad at all. There is a winter, but it is usually short. Ice storms are a problem, you CANNOT drive in them.

The pace is a lot slower than in the North, and probably California. The need to rush just isn't there. The cities in NC are pretty comsmopolitan, the rural areas tend to be less forgiving of outsiders, but that is pretty much the same all over.

All in all you will probably like the place.

-Dio

Answer 3

Cold winters and hot, steamy summers. You'll be about 5 to 7 hours away from the coast depending on where you go. You are also just a couple of hours from the Blue Ridge Mountains - very picturesque. You'll have to learn how to drive again based on wht I've seen in the past 10 years. You'll definately find things are a bit different than CA.

Answer 4

North Carolina is fun... Charlotte expecially... its a very alive city!! Although the beach is far away the mountains are close!! come to NC with a positive attitude and everything will work out great! NC is beautiful!! and i think the people are nicer too.... i moved here from Mass.

Answer 5

Charlotte is one of the bigger cities on NC. It is a nice city they have an awesome amusment park (carowinds). There is still that southern hospitality althought there is a lot of pepole and colleges. Hope that you enjoy the great state of NC.

Answer 6

Any owner that would move the team to another city would have a plan in place to get a venue for the stadium. Either the city council would have approved a tax-payer funded stadium, or the owner would have arranged a lease for an existing venue.

Answer 7

Well, for starters there'll be occasional KKK membership drives you might want to avoid.

Also, Homosexuals are frequently shot on sight, except on Halloween, which is when a lot of Sexually repressed rednecks vent their Homo erotic desires by dressing up like women.

Answer 8

That's a beautiful area. Like to be there right now. Congrats.

Answer 9

I live in a small town in N.C. and I believe that you will love it here.

Answer 10

To be bored out of your skull.