Where Should I Live?

[nvanprooyen]

I still really wanna go to a gothic vampire type bar. I love Neo and I liked EXIT. But I've been searching for a crazy(straight**) leather bar with chicks all hot as **** dressed up and nasty grungy goth music playing in the background.

If you end up in this place, be sure to check for adams apples.....

 

[Desperado34]

If you end up in this place, be sure to check for adams apples.....

Ha. One of my buddies is *** and I've been to a few *** bars- I can totally sniff out the trannys now. Some of the damn things look so much like women you really gotta look. Ya know, cuz going to a *** bar is like shooting fish in a barrell when their are straight chicks there(which there are). It's like "Oh he's the cool straight guy who has a *** friend n isn't nervous bout being here!"

Boom.

Your in.

Still wanna find my goth vamp straight bar tho lol

 

[Bigfoot]

Of those listed..Id say Chicago and Nashville are the better, but I am hearing a lot of negatives about Chicago lately from friends who still live there

As for Asheville..I live about 45 minutes away in a small town...Great place as long as ya dont go into Asheville much...Its just like S/F without the good paying jobs...The OP wants a good paying job, so Id stay away from most of the south then..There are no unions here, and the pay sucks. Also, its a right to work state. They can fire you on the spot for absolutely no reason and you have no recourse.

Tradesmen here make 14@hour if theyre lucky..Job turnover is huge here..Teachers cant afford to live here on their salary. The county is considering dorms for teachers so they can at least have a roof over their heads

Charlotte NC is an up and coming town..Huge in the finance field too... Ive been there many times..A very nice city..I would recommend the OP looking into it


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina





Duke Energy Center and the Westin


AT&T in Charlotte
Charlotte has become a major U.S. financial center and is now the second largest banking center in the United States (after New York).[citation needed] The nation's second largest financial institution by assets, Bank of America, calls the city home. The city was also the former corporate home of Wachovia until its 2008 acquisition by Wells Fargo in San Francisco CA; Wells Fargo integrated legacy Wachovia, with the two banks fully merged at the end of 2011, which included transitioning all of the Wachovia branches in the Carolinas to Wells Fargo branches by October 2011. Since then, Charlotte became the regional headquarters for East Coast Operations of Wells Fargo, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Charlotte also serves as the headquarters for Wells Fargo's capital markets activities including sales and trading, equity research, and investment banking. Bank of America's headquarters, along with other regional banking and financial services companies, are located primarily in the Uptown central business district.
Charlotte has eight Fortune 500 companies in its metropolitan area, listed in order of their rank: Bank of America, Lowe's in suburban Mooresville, Nucor (steel producer), Duke Energy, Sonic Automotive, Family Dollar, SPX Corporation (industrial technology), and Domtar (in suburban Fort Mill). Other major companies headquartered or with corporate operations in Metro Charlotte include: Chiquita Brands International, Extended Stay Hotels, Babcock and Wilcox, RSC Brands, TIAA-CREF, Time Warner Cable (formerly a business unit of Fortune 500 company Time Warner), Fox Sports 1, ESPNU, Continental Tire the Americas, LLC., Muzak, Belk, Cato Corporation, Harris Teeter, Meineke Car Care Center, Lance, Inc, Carolina Foods Inc, Bojangles', Carlisle Companies, National Gypsum, Electrolux, LendingTree, Compass Group USA, Food Lion, and Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (the nation's second largest Coca-Cola bottler). U.S. Airways regional carrier CCAir was headquartered in Charlotte.[41][42]
Carowinds Amusement Park, owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company is located in Charlotte.
Charlotte is the major center in the U.S. motorsports industry, housing multiple offices of NASCAR, the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord. Approximately 75% of the NASCAR industry's race teams, employees and drivers are based nearby. The large presence of the racing technology industry along with the newly built NHRA dragstrip, zMAX Dragway at Concord, is influencing other top professional drag racers to move their shops to Charlotte as well. The Metrolina Speedway is expected to bring more local racing along with a skate park, shoppes, restaurants, and an upscale hotel.
Located in the western part of Mecklenburg County is the U.S. National Whitewater Center, which consists of man-made rapids of various degrees and is open to the public year round.[43]


One Wells Fargo Center behind the Latta Arcade in Uptown Charlotte
The Charlotte Region has a major base of energy-oriented organizations and has become known as “Charlotte USA – The New Energy Capital.” In the region there are more than 240 companies directly tied to energy sector collectively employing more than 26,400. Since 2007 more than 4,000 energy sector jobs have been announced. Major energy players in Charlotte include AREVA, Babcock and Wilcox, Duke Energy, Electric Power Research Institute, Fluor, Metso Power, Piedmont Natural Gas, Siemens Energy, Shaw Group, Toshiba, URS Corp., and Westinghouse. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has a reputation in energy education and research and its Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) trains energy engineers and conducts research.
The area is an increasingly growing trucking and freight transportation hub for the East Coast. The Charlotte Center city has seen remarkable growth over the last decade. Numerous residential units continue to be built uptown, including over 20 skyscrapers under construction, recently completed, or in the planning stage. Many new restaurants, bars and clubs now operate in the Uptown area. Several projects are transforming the Midtown Charlotte/Elizabeth area.[44]
In 2013, Forbes named Charlotte among its list of Best Places for Business and Careers.[45] Charlotte has also been listed as the #20 largest city in the US, and the #60 fastest growing city in the US between 2000-2008.[46]

BB you don't happen to live in Franklin County do you?

 

[Nail Polish]

BB you don't happen to live in Franklin County do you?

No...Transylvania county

 

[Nail Polish]

If only you knew how ignorant you sound.




The couple I mentioned who spoke highly of it are both clean cut professionals in their early 50s. They just happen to be far more open minded and intelligent than you.

poor mick...Trying desperately to defend his freaky friends and his freak lifestyle

 

[Bigfoot]

Lol. No. At least not in my opinion. I'll take a afternoon thunderstorm in the summer every day that's done in like an hr or two vs. months of gloom, freezing cold and snow. F that. Also don't pretend like it doesn't get hot / humid as **** during the summer in IL too.

I will say though nvan, this year has been brutal in the humid and hot department.

 

[Bigfoot]

I almost moved to Asheville back in 08, ended up joining the service instead. I will say Western North Carolina is beautiful. Once I get done with school, hopefully be able to pack up the family, and head up to Minnesota, Montana or Wyoming.

 

[HeHateMe]

Nvan you lived in omaha? I did middleschool in schuyler. Gonna road trip through ne this summer see what kinda shithole it has become...

 

[Nail Polish]

I almost moved to Asheville back in 08, ended up joining the service instead. I will say Western North Carolina is beautiful. Once I get done with school, hopefully be able to pack up the family, and head up to Minnesota, Montana or Wyoming.

WNC is really scenic..If you drive east on I-40 from Tennessee into NC, you will see some of the most beautiful scenery. I-40 goes right thru the national forest

 

[nvanprooyen]

Nvan you lived in omaha? I did middleschool in schuyler. Gonna road trip through ne this summer see what kinda shithole it has become...

I was stationed at Offutt for 3 years and stuck around for like a year or so after I got out.

 

[nvanprooyen]

I will say though nvan, this year has been brutal in the humid and hot department.

It has been pretty bad....but watching what they went through this past winter, totally worth it.

 

[nvanprooyen]

No...Transylvania county

I am in love with Transylvania county. I think I need to do a fall trip. Rent a cabin or something.

 

[Urblock]

Winter is starting again here.

 

[Nail Polish]

I am in love with Transylvania county. I think I need to do a fall trip. Rent a cabin or something.

Do it...Ya only live once..There are rentals not 10 minutes from here..Nice ones too

 

[Desperado34]

Winter is starting again here.

Seriously losing my mind in Illinois with this cold fall bullshit in July. Everyone be all liike "Yay!Woo. Chilly! Yay!" N I be like **** this. I hate cold. I hate winter.

brb popping this movie in multiple times this past winter.

A few of my friends just went Aurba and they said they met a couple other fellas down there who actually left the midwest and moved to Aruba and now work as bartenders in their mid '20s. Said its awesome LOL

 

[nvanprooyen]

Do it...Ya only live once..There are rentals not 10 minutes from here..Nice ones too

I was thinking about heading to Charlotte for the Bears game and then heading west Mon and spending a week there.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Desperado, if you are serious about wanting to GTFO...do it now. Only gets harder as you get older, more responsibilities etc.

 

[Hbkrusso]

chapel hill n.c. brah theres a strip of like 20 bars that are always packed with non stop drunk college chicks....dunno what the work situations like but if u cant get layed there constantly its because u have no penis

 

[winterwarz]

Desperado, if you are serious about wanting to GTFO...do it now. Only gets harder as you get older, more responsibilities etc.

It's not necessarily the age. I turned 34 a week ago and live a pretty free and nomadic life. It's great. I graduated college last year, sold my house, and got the **** outta IL. I travel light and try to avoid leases. It's very satisfying to know you can pack up and drive across the country on a complete whim at any moment. You can make it anywhere with an education, no debt (or young kids), and an open mind. Developing a fear of commitment (if one does not exist already) also helps.

 

[nvanprooyen]

Sure, I get it. I should have probably said "generally". Debt, kids, family, work etc all tend to be things limit someone's ability to just say **** it as the years go on. You can always do it...just gets harder. Of course this isn't always the case, good job keeping your options open