They're LYING About Retiring In These North Carolina Towns!
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- An algorithm shouldn't decide where you retire. In today's video I look at some terrible places to retire, then at 4 of my favorites!
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This is why you should rent an apartment for a year in your planned location to see if you actually like the place. If you do, then buy a house there.
Correct!
Yes , but you can't always pick your neighbors, sometimes you move in , it seems good and stable then the house next door to you sells to someone horrible from out of town and it's" game over."
Also, who can afford to rent?
@@erstwhile3793Very good point! Years ago, no problem to rent, but its a different story these days!
Did in sol cal but actually can afford Malibu..so there .
My sister pointed out “she’s in the Medical field” after my Mother had a bad stroke which after 3 months took her, all access to medical needs were 25 to 30 miles from her home. In some circumstances care wasn’t even in the state she lived in.
I’m from Asheville and amazed at the hype encouraging people to come here. I used to love going downtown. Now it’s all about the homeless beggars, needles, used condomes as a surprise in parking lots . One large church had to replace all their mulch beds because there were so many needles. (I saw a very overweight woman walking down the street with no clothes above the waist- not cute). The cost of living here is astronomical. Homes have literally doubled in price in the last 4 years. Property taxes are so high the old retired locals who own their homes can’t afford to live here, have to sell and move.Schools are overcrowded due to so many illegals, traffic is getting worse every year. Job market is pathetic. If you can spend your days hiking in the mountains, away from Asheville, that might make it worth the move.
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The crazy, woke, nut libs have ruined beautiful cities for democrats. Took the kids on vacation to Asheville and might as well been in D.C. What a mess, they will never get a tourist cent from me nor my kids who won't return when they grow up.
Asheville went deep blue and turned into a dump.
Very sad . I go to Black mountain now.
@@bubba10051don't come to black mountain. It's too close to trashville.
This NC local says that we are full. Full of retirees clogging the streets. Full of raising our taxes. Full of raising housing prices so our own children can’t even afford to live here. Stay where you are. Fix where you are.
So much for southern hospitality!
Taxes here are cheap you dont know what you are saying.
Taxes have been going down for a decade…
@@akita96th BS, My taxes have been going up.
@@Nun195 Not where I live.
Honestly though, who picks up and moves to a town without seeing it in person first????
You would be shocked how many people do!
And then they don’t like it and try to sell it for far more than they paid just a year later. It’s a huge red flag for the property when they move out that quickly.
Most people go where the work is.
new Englanders....it's that bad...everybody just wants to flee
Well done. Thank you for researching all of this and sharing your conclusions, including "the algorithm". I'm blocking some of the entities I receive feed from as a result.
After my last move, I swore I would rent an apartment the next time I moved (especially if I moved out of state) to see if I liked the new place and also to get my bearings on other possibilities if I didn't like it. I understand there are caveats financially in doing this, especially if you sell your home and have to transfer that 'wealth' into a new home within a time frame, but I would be happier if I knew a few things about a potential new community before I moved there.
We live in Jamestown near 3 larger cities, High Point, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem. We have good health care. Rural areas do not have as good of care, but most rural areas in the USA are in the same boat. In the Piedmont area there are many activities. Depends what you want in retirement. You should visit areas you are considering not just go by what you read on the internet. Most people, who retire from my experience, want to be near their families.
Me, I ride a bike around the area. You can see everything at a street level. Also, you'll find out how many people yell at you or throw crap out of their cars.
Also, try and do a walk around in the later evening, say about 9 pm on a saturday. That way you get a real feeling for the inhabitants of the area on their off time.
I considered moving to Raleigh because my son lives there but there are SOOO many people and it’s growing way too fast. Which is why I moved out of Florida to begin with.
I don't know where you got your data from.I live in Lenoir County, North Carolina.I've 3 miles from everything I want and I live in a rural area.Have no neighbors for half a mile.Either way get your Facts right
why so hostile and offended? We can't go through 100 counties finding every jem, this is a 15 min video Donny...
I'm sorry I didn't mean to be hostile.It's just beautiful down here.I like it very much sorry if I offended you
Think I'll pass on the checkers.
Thank-you for your time and stats . I'm 59 yrs old and was looking into NC. Because I've has some friends that live there ,mostly toward Winston Salem. . However I still would like to work @ lease a partime my profession has been truck driver so if I can due something like a shuttle bus driver .What else can you tell a out NC. ?
He’ll, just don’t come down here! I’d be ok with that
Im retiring in the next few months and would like to visit. Is there someone you could suggest I could reach out to for help with my small retirement relocation to Raleigh?
Send me an email and I can help you! Ellen.pitts@compass.com
Why Raleigh? Traffic is terrible!
@@EllenPitts Realtors would sell condos at Auschwitz if it meant a buck
I had to comment as I feel you left out the best community for retirement, Kernersville in the Triad. Vibrant downtown, the best medical facilities locally and within a short drive to Greensboro or Winston Salem, senior services thru the Shepherds center, and over 55 apartments and communities being built all the time. Having lived in both areas, the Triangle area and the Triad, tge Triad is much more friendly!
Thank you! This is very helpful to me as NC is my target state to retire within the next 18 months. Thank you!
@lizzieb6311 let me know if I can help!
But, a realtor in Asheville told me that Hendersonville was racist about twenty years ago. Has it gotten better?
Don't listen to any bloodsucker from Buncombe Co.
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🤣 They wanted you to buy in Asheville!
Nope
@@jessegarman7899, sorry to hear.
AI screws us again.
Charlotte is insanely overpriced, nightmare traffic, no thanks. Years ago the developers drove down old two lane country roads around Charlotte and they bought every acre of land they could get their hands on. So a developer would acquire 1,000 acres of land and build 5,000 houses. Each house has at least 2 cars, so now the old two lane country road has 10,000 cars on it every day. My wife would sit in a 7 mile traffic jam every day trying to get to our neighborhood. Now imagine this scenario being repeated 30 times in every direction, North, South, East and West of Charlotte.
Sounds like a nightmare. I live in Burlington and try to avoid Charlotte like the plague...
Charlotte has become Atlanta Part 2. Moved to Charlotte in 1987, work moved me out five years later. I do not recognize the city anymore. It used to be great, a nice place. Now it's just insane driving and prices.
Retirement doesn't always mean budget friendly. Lots of folks retire well off and enjoy a feature rich city with all it offers. Charlotte is big to many here but it's actually quaint if you're coming from a big city.. just offering perspective..
Charlotte is just another big nasty city nothing there but big city BS not a good place to live you hAVE TO GO FARTHER WEST to find the good place.
@@tangobear3536 I’m afraid so. At least Atlanta has 6 lanes on their highways. In Charlotte they added two lanes to I-77 North, but they made those new lanes progressive toll roads. Unbelievable. If you lived in Mooresville it would cost you $20 bucks each way during rush hour, every day. Or you could sit in traffic for at least 45-60 minutes each way. Very few people can stomach paying $40 dollars in tolls every day, so the original two lanes of highway are backed up the entire 28 miles to Mooresville, every day. So glad we got the hell out of there.
The real problem is the local people sold their heritage. They traded their way of life for a new Mercedes and now they have neither... hold on to your land
If you just left your community behind and down-sized to a very simple 'lifestyle' (eat out of styrofoam boxes 2X per day, and walk the dog) - so now you are bored and lonely; next, you get diagnosed with cancer, so you drive two hours one-way, every Friday, for Chemo; then you pay a caretaker three days a week to change your diaper and cook a meal or three and bring your groceries off the porch for you; now you are too week to load a weapon; and six months into this - you will not care where you are, but will probably wish you were 'home'. So, the question you need to ask, after about 65 - where is your home? Important to know, bc you may need to go home. You could get even more un-lucky, your spouse could die before you die. Anyway, ... yeah, the weather is pretty nice, but, don't be surprised, if you have no idea what to do with yourself near the beach or the warmed saltwater pools or near the Ripley's Believe it Or Not Museum. Yes, the young people are fleeing, just as Ellen said. Click your heels and say aloud, "there is no place like home ..." (unless it is NJ or PA or NY, it goes wo saying).
@@SmooveBee1 how does PA go without saying?
I have lived in NC all my life. This is my opinion it use to in my OPINION the best place to live and I have lived in a lot of different states. What happened is a bunch of people from all over the country started moving in with their money and buying up the better old family farms and mountain land and coastal lands and slowly turned it into exactly what they were trying to get away from. Asheville Raleigh Charlotte are all prime example. Sometimes less is more.
News Flash we are all immigrants - unless you are Native American you are Not ‘from here’ - it is not the people or whether they are Yankees it is the values they bring. Change can be good and sometimes can be great🦊
@@mooslionheart I rest my case.
@@garylancaster3995 stay on your rock’n chair on the porch greybeard and memaw will bring you a jug of shine … we’ll be down in the hollar raising hell 😹
@mooslionheart not a bad idea, take care and keep the hell raising clean and fun.
The real problem? People sold out to those people who came in here and bought up those places. They did NOT have to! They chose to. Same as going up to michigan to work and send $ home etc. the locals say how bad it was etc etc. they didn’t have to do that. Anyway, here we are… so I see many campgrounds, hilltops being bulldozed etc
So.. let’s fat forwsrd 50-100 years
Is it my fault if I sell and it’s a shopping center?
I mean, I’m a way, it will happen when I die. Can we blame the people who bought out house 50-100 years ago? Isn’t it the same?
The entire country has gone to shit, there's NOWHERE worth retiring to. The best you can hope for is to just survive with a reduced amount amount of struggling and criminals.
You can run but you can't hide....trouble is often just a few steps behind you.
I actually do often think about relocating to another country
double amen
The BLM people are allowed to live anywhere now, we can thank the Civil Rights Act for that! Happy Juneteemf to all!
When you are retirement age, it is very hard to really find new friends. Local retirees have family, grandchildren and lifelong friendships and alliances. If you are from out of state and have an accent that is different, you may find people avoid you, since you are too different.
Unless you live in a community where the retirees are moving to I droves, like Horry County.
She likes Raleigh and Charlotte. Both are two super-sprawling towns with serious traffic/commuting problems. Homes are more expensive. (Raleigh is the capital, so it's full of bureaucrats, lawyers, and lobbyists.) They have nothing of charm of smaller NC towns
shhh.....
Can’t argue with those health care stats, tho.
While no one likes traffic, the DAILY COMMUTE burden may be viewed differently among retirees.
I am shocked at the retirees' health these days. It's this Rockefeller "medicine" that has gotten us so sick over the years and we turn to them to treat us? Learn to Dr. yourself the way your great grandmother did. It's more effective and the cost... well that's a no brainer. I am looking for nice property and people and could care less about how many Dr.'s are in the town or how good they are - it's just not important to my wife and I.
Best comment and so true. Since I watched the rockefeller medicine documentary and learned the truth about that evil family and medical industrial complex have not been to a doctor in years. My mother was into holistic health since I was ten so I grew up learning about it my entire life. No side effects.
@@bls5160 Awesome!
She is absolutely correct on the healthcare in Western NC. It's terrible. Drove 5 hrs to have my surgery at Duke and do all my follow-up in SC
How is the healthcare in South Carolina?
Wish I had seen this before we moved to the coast!
I’ve lived here over 11 years full time. I’ve been through at least 10 primary doctors (they leave, relocate, merging of hospitals, blah blah blah… you have to start over)
Nobody researches that. You will die here.
Look up mission healthcare lawsuit In NC
North Carolina county seeks damages in HCA Mission lawsuit
Buncombe County wants to join a lawsuit from the state alleging HCA degraded care quality after acquiring Mission Hospital in 2019.
Published April 9, 2024
Missions is in trouble
The county is seeking to join the North Carolina attorney general’s lawsuit against HCA. The lawsuit, filed in December, alleges the health system “significantly degraded” the quality of care at Mission after HCA acquired the Mission Health system.
Ms. Pitts , respectfully , Your profession is one that has denigrated NC. Somewhat akin to lawyers and car salesman. I own four pieces of property in NC , one in Virginia, none bought through a realtor. I guess you figure someone will do it, might as well be you. I don't blame you , just stating fact. I'm glad you are headlining Charlotte and Raleigh, but I know why. The world runs on Benjamins and it comes down to the root of all evil. The shenanigans going on lately don't affect me directly, my race is already run and won. But I do really feel sorry for the youth of this region. Unless they have a leg up ,its gonna be really tough for them.
fwiw, Asheville is no gem either, it’s a ultra liberal manure pit. Horrible place to retire.
Beggars with signs on very corner…
Better than conservatives places.
Ashville is a clean town and a friendly town and it appreciates the arts.....You must be one of them whiny TrumpHumpers or MAGAT if you will and we are glad you left lol. Trump fools are never welcome in friendly towns.
@@Desertbiker617 LOL🤣🤣🤣no
Ashville used to be great … and classy ..I wouldn’t board my dog there now..trendy,woke, nose-ring yupsters ..may as well move to San Francisco.
As someone who has been in N.C. since 1988 I agree she got a lot correct…. I also found it funny that multiple references of Mayberry were used, but Mount airy was never mentioned the actual Mayberry.
My. Airy is the birthplace of Andy Griffith.
virginia's better, u can legally grow ur own herb. nc economy: pigfarms(stink), banks, bioweapons & bigpharm (suck)
I agree, the SOUTH IS FULL. Prices are high, taxes are high, crime increasing along w/traffic. No mention of the bad gang problem in Charlotte?
None of this is true.
That’s true because so many flocked there from the rest of the country
Yea the north is full too. Where you think all those foreigners moved to ? People were pushed out up there too. Get over it. There are more people then there was 100 years ago. Get used to it. People are coming. You would think y’all would want new blood you can’t keep marrying your cousins.
The housing market here in the Triangle is insane. We moved here 20 years ago. We couldn't afford to live here now if we hadn't bought a house back then. My husband is an engineer and I'm a nurse. Our house is worth 3½ times what we paid. Taxes have tripled. Essentially, you'd be buying at the height of this market, and it's bound to drop.
Sorry I'll pick a small rural town without a lot of services and without the crime and the problems that come with most large cities.
Up to a point yes, I can see being in a smallish rural town that still has some services, dial a ride bus for old folks to get to the grocery store , doctor etc., It's nice to have a couple of auto repair joints nearby, maybe a car rental place. Typically if the town is bigger than 10,12,000 you'll probably have most of that. the town could be away from larger metros and still be servicable...maybe a very small college town. Although one of the down sides to being very rural is having to drive a couple hours to an airport to catch a flight from a pricy minor airport or driving 6 hours to get to a regional/hub type airport..
'I'll pick a small rural town without ... crime and the problems that come with most large cities.' I suggest you steer clear of the Appalachians where drug abuse and crime are practically a way of life in some areas.
@@eattherich9215 True. I got lucky. LIve in a small rural town that does have low crime. It does have an issue with Meth, but doesn't seem to be rampant.
Rural towns - check the Sex Offender Registry, crime statistics for drug arrests.
@@rubyparchment5523 Yep, and hope the elementary school down the street doesn't close (releasing the distance limit) or get converted into low cost housing because that's where they're all gonna move to just down the street from you.
Totally agree to never consider a move somewhere without talking to a local. Sure a local Realtor like Ellen here wants to sell/rent you a place, but they also usually live in those areas too, meaning they aren't just a Realtor, they are a local. For me, I moved back to Texas in 2010 after being away a few years. Even though I'd been there for 12+ years before, I decided to rent first when I got back. Wanted to see how the local vibe was and worst case, if I didn't like it, well it was only a year lease and I could move on. I ended up finding it was the place for me, so I bought a place. That was 13 years ago. Not sure if I'll stay for retirement due to rising costs....but I'll use the same formula. Talk to a LOCAL Realtor first. They know their stuff!
If you can, find an AirBnB or VRBO place for rent....stay there 2-3 weeks or more to get a good feel for the area without a commitment.
Hendersonville is a dump. Blowing Rock would be far better. Triangle area? Absolutely NOT. It's expensive and you will be trapped in traffic all the time, it is the WORST place for a retiree. Same for Charlotte. Pinehurst is oppressively hot. Nothing to do there but golf if that is your thing.
Hendersonville is so over-crowded and still more apartments/houses being built everywhere!
I’ve lived in NC since 1984. I lived in Charlotte for the first six years. I can’t imagine anything worse than retiring in Charlotte or Raleigh. It would be like retiring to Cleveland, or Richmond. I live in Western North Carolina, and if I came down with cancer, I’d go to Duke to get treatment. It’s no big deal.
No, if you don’t want to retire to McDowell County, rather, go to Waynesville, Hendersonville, Hickory, etc. of course, everything is a matter of opinion, and when I lived in Charlotte, Most people would love to have been there. I was happy to see it in my rearview mirror. The town had no soul, and in my opinion hasn’t obtain one in the meantime.
There's an older black couple in church who fled Raleigh due to the crime.
Charlotte was boring when I was there.
You should go to piedmont in Georgia it is just a stones'' throw across the border AND it is not 5 hours away.
Agreed. I don't choose a place where the top priority is living with cancer. If a cancer center is within a couple of hours that will do. If I get old enough and sick enough to require a weekly hospital visit then I'll move.
" An algorithm shouldn't determine where you live...." Agreed. Nor should a realtor with a potential financial stake in directing you to some of the state's most expensive housing markets.
For a retiree, medical care is a huge factor and she is absolutely right about it being a top spot for medical care. That's why the Raleigh/Durham area would be a great place to retire if you can afford it. But, yes, it's getting more expensive every day. An amazing second option would be Greensboro. I just moved over here from Raleigh because everything was getting more expensive and I work from home, so I don't have to take that L anymore. Greensboro also has amazing medical care and it's less expensive. An ER visit to the hospital in Raleigh for kidney stones cost over $10K. Same thing in Greensboro? $6K - and the people here were MUCH nicer. Dentistry is the same, much cheaper here. We have great oncology care here as well, we get a lot of clinical trials and if needed they will refer you to Duke. I had cancer here in 1989. They did my surgery here, but sent me to Duke for a clinical trial for treatment. We have 2 hospitals that provide amazing care. We're only an hour from Raleigh, so we also get doctors from those amazing schools. I think Winston-Salem is even cheaper.
@@Laura-mi3nvI retired in the Greensboro Triad area in a rural area near my kids. I have access to Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point medical services, recreation/entertainment options are bountiful. 3 international airports within a 75 minute drive. Rural living with all the benefits of a large metro area. 3 hour drive to beach, less to mountains and Blue Ridge Parkway.
Too many people are moving to NC.
the lady from Hendersonville said it RIGHT. otherwise you may find there's a limit to Southern Hospitality.
Southern hospitality is a myth exposed by Fredrick law Plmstead in 1848 book cotton kingdom and I can agree . I was raised in Salisbury 30 miles from Charlotte
The Dr's in those western towns are mostly semi-retired living in their vacation homes part time. Hard to get an appointment with a good doc in western NC. There are exclusively two kinds of people in Western NC: Wealthy second home retirees and dirt poor people living on welfare. Not many in between.
😊 yep
Wrong, there are a lot of the working class poor
I totally agree with you on medical care. I live in Chapel Hill and we have the best (Duke , UNC, Wake Med etc) Nothing compares to the RTP area
It really is night and day….
True but most can’t afford to live here now.
Haven't You heard, Camden NJ is the top retirement spot!
They have VERY colorful trash cans!.
Hah, this is awesome. I don’t think anyone would complain about Camden being gentrified.
My home town for 18 yrs🤫
All these retirement states are great if you’re healthy and wealthy. Otherwise you are screwed.
If you believe in after life, you don't need to worry about dying!
What a stupid unrelated comment.
I don't believe in after life and I don't worrying about during
Why would anyone want to live for ever and ever
Well for sure you got one thing right my wife and I retired to Hendersonville 7 years ago from Charlotte we absolutely love it here so glad to be out of the big city in the traffic of Charlotte
We moved to Chapel Hill 24 years ago and I retired 2 years ago. When we came, we bought a one-floor house in a central location. We ain't budgin'.
To me North Carolina is like a well worn pair of jeans,comfortable. You are spot on with your recommendations.
I know everyones trying to rush to find the next GREAT PLACE to retire and live like King. I'm telling you, drop the fantasies and stop counting nickles.
New England is STILL where it's at. Sure, you may not get a poorly made 6br mini-mansion for pennies but you'll have quality of life and access to LITERALLY some of the best healthcare on the planet. Some things are more expensive but live small, consume small, and enjoy your life. The time for earning and hoarding is over. Go LIVE.
😂 i couldn’t get out of there fast enough
I thought Montana was "the last best place"
@@markbajek2541 Montana is incredible but it all depends on your wants and needs. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks and so on and so on and doobie doobie doo be.
@@markbajek2541 hahahahahaha! Usually takes about 2 winters before the occupiers retreat ;-)
It's beautiful but so many people are too soft for cold weather.
I think it is sad the poor get a sucky life.
That’s how it’s always been
Then give them all of your money.
"Best Places to Move" and "Worst Places to Move" videos are all over the place, most make no sense for folks, and frequently contradict each other. I watched a video last week that had South Dakota in the Top 5------what a joke. If you want to go freeze your a$$ off it's your dream destination. Florida is on both Best/Worst videos---breaking news--it's awful. Likewise, Nevada, specifically Las Vegas--touted as great--yep, if you want 120 degrees for 3 months!. If you want to move, just go do your own research for a few weeks, maybe rent a place for 6 months wherever you desire. See if it's real.
You’re right about Flawfida. What a nightmare. Bums (always holding a lit cigarette) at every stoplight. Blue-hairs zooming through stop signs, red lights. Worst - NOISE. Blasting stereos, booming car music. More hoboes. It took me about 2 years back home to recover my nerves.
I have another recommendation. Pick Charlotte or Raleigh. Charlotte if the hills edge out your fancy. Raleigh if you're a big water enthusiast. Then, If you have the means, get into a tiny house community or build your own near Hendersonville, or Beaufort area, for long weekends or even a week here & there. That way you have the best of 2 worlds, not just one. And that's because even the most charming small towns can get old VERY quickly. There's only so many times you can do the same thing over & over.
If you like to be left alone and a social life isn't important, than almost any small town will do.
We’ve lived here near the coast for all our lives and will continue to. If you move here please respect our culture and loved it as we do. Also, no liberals please!
You may have met real liberals that you liked and not even realized it. Most are nothing like the bizarre cartoons created in certain types of media to frighten and distract you.
"The Triangle is booming". Yes, because it is booming, my wife and I no longer recognize the city we grew up in and loved for 55 of the past 60 years and that is why we will be leaving in a few years when we retire. It is becoming a very large city with large city problems including housing costs, traffic, crime and a less friendly population losing the Southern charm it once had. "Large cities are where the soul goes to die" or as Thomas Jefferson also observed: "'When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as cor,rupt as Europe." or in the words of Joni Mitchell "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot".
Corrupt as Europe, are you living in some other America?
@@eattherich9215 he was quoting Jefferson-250 years ago 😊
Southern Charm?
Bwahahaha
Phony baloney!
I’m with James Dickey!
Hillbillies have no redeeming qualities!
Southerners have a wide cruel streak- just like Cody Roberts.
Cody Roberts is the poster boy for Southern Charm! ❤
I wish you well! ❤
McDowell, Avery, and Mitchell Counties are hell holes that should be crossed off anyone's list.
Disagree. Beautiful safe areas.
Burke county also' look up the crime rate compared to much larger areas and the law let's them get by with it.
Thriving pickleball communities is the number 1 priority for many and having a walkable downtown area. That eliminates about 99%
pickleball?? u r trippin. only if ur too weak or unskilled to play tennis
@@divingduck9Ikr, Pickleball😂😂
Yep, until you snap an ankle then the pickelball isn't quite as important any longer..
Murphy NC is an awesome place to live.....But if you are a Trump supporter lol then dont come here lol
@@akita96thI love it here! But thank goodness, being a non-voter, as I've been for the past 15 years, I no longer have problems like that 😊 Half the time, I can't even tell ya whose running during an election year lol
I'm originally from Wilmington but I've lived in Chicago for the last 35 years. I still love Wilmington and it will always be home to me but I don't think I could afford to live there now. Retirees from the North have basically over run the town and ruined it with high prices and aweful traffic. It's an old school seaboard town that grew up organically. It was never meant to have that many people.
I'm from Chicago now in WNC very different but I'm also in a different stage in my life..
Not planned out well, out all.
can't you just move farther out to the suburbs or even another 15 min farther to the mostly rural area at it will be fine?
@@trauma50disaster1 I'm an avid cyclist. To be honest my hometown is too flat and boring. I need hills and scenery! Will retire in the western part of NC.
Cashiers avg. Home price 2024 - 1.6 million
😅 yep
great vid. All the yankees take warning and stay north this is not the place to go ...wink wink nudge nudge
Thanks for accurate information about the Beautiful Crystal Coast, where we live & is by far the Best retirement area for us, we live on Atlantic Beach @ is the Perfect small town for beach lovers, like us !!!!! If you need advanced medical care, the Triangle is not that far away, but certainly wouldn’t want to live there - Small Town life is simply the Best for us 😎😎😎
AB is a rich man town now. You should have seen it in the 60's. I wish it was still like that.
Always visit first for a week, research on site.
The south use to be nice until the ( this is how do it ) bunch moved down .
I repeatedly vacationed in a town year after year , visiting in high and low seasons , good weather and bad over about a 4 year time. It's a completely different kettle of fish living year round there and just visiting 2 weeks at a time. It has its high points and low points but I didn't really notice the drug problem the town had as a sporatic visitor nor the increasing homelessness the area in now experiencing. But people do stop to assist large turtles to cross 3 and 4 lane highways with holiday traffic zooming by so there is that.
The homeless problem is not as bad as you think it is I only see a few heare and there and as for drugs show me a town in the USA that does not have a drug problem.
I do not believe that any rural area is going to have good medical care. Good doctors want to be associated with good hospitals so that means an urban or semi-urban area.
Next year we're moving from Apex to Pinehurst. Apex has been a great place to live until recently it's just turning into gross suburban sprawl.
C'mon. You are leaving "The peak of good living". All jokes aside, Apex is just suburban sprawl now and not the quiet little town it was 30 years ago. I was driving on Highway 64 recently on a Sunday and the traffic was bumper to bumper! Holly Springs and Fuquay Varina are sprawling too. Cary, which was very nice 30 years ago, has become way too crowded. We will be moving out of the area for retirement to a more rural area. I can always drive to to the best hospitals for medical care.
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@@EllenPitts I was gonna say you probably have people lined up to buy it.
We did this 2 years ago. Sold the big, 2-storey family home for 3x what I bought it for in 1999 and bought a single storey on a golf course. Life is great and I wake up to bird song (which I hadn't heard in Apex for a number of years).
I don’t even want to live in this state. Sure will not retire here.
How come
@@bane2256 This is second time living in this state. History is repeating itself. Work a year or 2 and get laid off. Wages are low. No opportunity. Plus this time my allergies are very severe.
@@ToddThomas-ds1ncWhere are you moving then? Where is the best place to live?
@@skylarsartnphotography3450Los Angeles California
@@ToddThomas-ds1nc😂😂😂
What do you think about New Bern?
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!We are too full!!!!!!!!! No doctors!! 2 months for an appointment. and Hope that you like jet noise as the military is expanding here too. Gangs. traffic. Might look nice but it has gone downhill a lot.
A lot of drugs and gangs in rural towns too! Very depressing!
they’re everywhere :(
I think college towns are always good for retires. Western NC is beautiful to visit but probably best for a vacation.
Well, Western Carolina is in the middle of fucking nowhere. It's Appalachia, what do you expect?
The most beautiful place ever.
Marquette, Michigan. Great hospital. Beautiful everything.
Yep , it has some strong points, could use better air connections and a bit more snow.
Beautiful town.. but aren't we taking NC?
I grew up there. I could never see it getting overcrowded.
@@Hopdvil IF something were to happen to TC , like some type of beach oil spill or something else, I could see Marquette getting more people. Just gotta throw a free Parka and a snowblower with the house sale..
lol, we used to swim at the beach by the power plant. The coolant exhaust pipes were right there and kept the water temp reasonable.😂
No more advertising Hendersonville. We are over-crowded.
Slightly off-topic - i recently moved from a close-in DC suburb to an exurb out at the very edge of the DMV - and i am def noticing huge diffetences in local health care availability, which surprised me. As we get older hese things matter. In the past i had considering relocating to a Red State because i thought it would be cheaper, but turns out availability of health care is important that I dont want to live in a cash-starved state where health care resources are limited and where the COVID pandemic exposed those areas where existing health care systems were not up to the challenge. Im a city guy and i dont drive. My NC relatives all spend way too much time in their cars - even the ones who live in urban areas in the Triangle. So I guess it wont be NC for me.
You need to be near a teaching or a university hospital, not a for-profit hospital.
I have a family history of cancer and friends who've had cancer, and I would advise not to choose your residence based on how close it is to cancer treatment. That's letting cancer control your life. Cancer costs an average of $150,000 to treat in the USA. What's a few more in rent in a city with good cancer doctors while you need them?
Excellent video I am currently looking in a more than serious fashion to move to NC from ny
Same !
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This is happening in my location in Southern Colorado. People are buying property sight unseen. We are a food desert, have horrible medical care so you have to drive far to get a decent doctor. I can't get a vet here either. Definitely rent for a year before buying.
I live in Western NC and Georgia Piedmont hospital is 30 minutes away and if you want to talk about heart problems or cancer these hospitals are the best. Western NC has Doctors and a hospital and they have air ambulance service and any problem you have that is critical means you are less than a half hour away from any hospital in Georgia and Tennessee....So trying to tell everyone that East NC is the best for medical care is a lie . I have had two heart attacks and I was in a cardiac hospital in no time and they saved my life I am happy to be from western NC and this is the most beautiful part of NC with the smoky mountains and views the best water lots of rain and we even have two casinos...and an airport. So dont let her fool you about western NC it is the best part of NC plus we are 2 hours away driving from any big city like atlanta or asheville or chattanooga.....The mountains are worth it.
Shhhhh! Don't tell everyone!😁
Wake has great medical care Wake Med Hospital, for me wasn’t great . Raleigh Area, unaffordable. Lots of very poor in periphery
The issues discussed are worth consideration if you are moving to any state. Friends from NJ wanted to retire to Florida, a popular retirement destination. They had the wisdom to go into a one year rental to get a better idea of life there before investing in ownership. They were glad they did. They found they missed having 4 seasons, and several other factors made them realize the didn't like living in FL. They found a very nice smaller home in a rural community in NE PA, but south of the poconos, near enough to major medical centers in Allentown and Bethlehem, and love it there. Taxes are low, and although they don't have all the shopping conveniences locally, they are within 20 minutes, and that isn't a serious consideration. Do your research up front and find the real pros and cons before you move to an area you don't know.
I'm only in my 50's so this doesn't really apply to me, but this video is super important to many seniors so I'm glad you made the video. I had no idea algorithins were even telling people where they should retire. Story time and checkers? LOL I don't know who would like that at all, besides a four year old. My Mom has dementia and she laughed when I asked her would she like that.
As soon as I realized your bias for the Wake county area, I had to stop watching. Duke is an incredible hospital and we have had to use it many times for my wife's lifelong illness. However, I would no more live in your neck of the woods than I would an isolated island somewhere. Crime rate is soaring, traffic is appalling, and there are simply too many people. With all the social activities of a big city, comes the headaches of limited privacy, and crowding of bodies. If that is what you want in your retirement years, then have at it. I am a lifelong North Carolinian. I deal with tourists and traffic during the summer months. After that, peace and quiet.
We're in historic Hillsborough. It's near both Duke and UNC hospital systems. Orange County has great senior centers. Property taxes are low. Traffic is light. Durham is 15 minutes away and Raleigh is 45 minutes away if you need to do big city stuff.
Please don't give them any ideas.
I cannot stand that woman in Hendersonville, NC. The one who said if you move there, she doesn't want to be changed. She then went on to say, "If you're leaving there to come here, leave there behind." --Hey, lady, if I were to leave here and move there, I can bring whatever I want with me. Don't be so controlling. Seriously, what a mean woman! So sad, if they are all like her!
Using some computer algorithm is really no different than some dude that googles a bunch of info and makes a BS video about how good or bad a place is. That dude "Briggs" is a perfect example. He's never even been to most of the places he comments on, but is certain he's got a wrap on it.
Raleigh/ Durham Charlotte high crime . Stay on the East Coast of North Carolina. Safer and Republican Conservative Values.
People look at taxes!
Some do. Others look at what you get for your taxes.. Taxes mean good schools, roads, police, fire, hospitals, generally higher educated population, arts, culture, and well appointed public spaces.
@@tallyrcI had to sell my home due to rising property/city taxes and home insurance. I believe in the immediate future, home ownership will be a thing of the past, unless of course, your super wealthy, which I am not!
@@tallyrcAmen. Low taxes typically means garbage.
@@skylarsartnphotography3450 my North Carolina property taxes and homeowners insurance are the tiniest little portion of my mortgage.
@@tallyrctaxes don’t necessarily mean any of those things.
I LOVE Hendersonville, NC! The fact that it's so close to Asheville is a real plus.
Do you live here? We NEVER go to Asheville anymore! The open drug use & large homeless population has turned it into a non-safe zone, especially for families.
Asheville has turned to the dark side. Friend is Uber driver in Asheville area. Lived here his whole life. Many areas in Asheville he will not go into for fear of crime. I live in Hendersonville and go to Greenville, SC if I want some city life.
@@chanchan5349 I live here and travel to Asheville regularly with my family. We walk the streets for dinner and desserts or drinks.. stay safe in your bubble..
I have lived all over NC. Apex was one of those little towns that was wonderful to live in now it's way over grown don't move there !!! Everything this lady is saying she has just visited not lived in !!!
Let me give you a little of the other side of Retirees and Hendersonville, what *we* need. We need more retirees about as much as we need a plague of boils. You say in this video that young people are needed to provide the services that retirees want and need, and that's true. But in Henderson (and Transylvania and Polk) Counties, young people can't afford to live here; they certainly can't afford to move here and start out, and that's mostly because of the flood of retirees that have driven up prices. Local people, especially young people, have been pushed out for at least the last 40 years.
. You love the downtown. There's nothing but foo-foo nonsense left. There's not one business catering to basic needs. Examples:
> There used to be two supermarkets on South Main Street and a third one up behind the high school. All gone now.
> There used to be a Penney's department store on Main Street that sold a good, balanced variety of goods and clothing for a home and family. It moved out to the mall, stocked nothing but foo-foo "sportswear", and then closed.
> There used to be stores on Main Street for both clothing and shoes. None left.
. There are many more examples, but you get the point. Local people largely avoid going downtown, especially to Main Street. But it's difficult to go to businesses outside of town because the roads can't handle the current traffic loads. Retirees flooding in have been anything but good for local families.
. You, as one of millions of incomers, are the problem, and you're making it worse, not better. Change happens and there's no going back, but the changes here are not, overall, for the better, and the flood of retirees are destroying what they say they're coming for.
. We do NOT need more retirees. I do NOT wish you well in your endeavors.
Mean ass
I retired to a moderately poor tourist town a few years ago and while I like many of my neighbors , and I hope they like me, there is definately an" US" (locals) vs "THEM" (tourists and newcomers) mentality. Almost all of the "locals" hate the influx of traffic, the busy stores, the lines at restaurants etc caused by the tourist/ seasonal influx. the town swells from 8,000 to 20,000 almost overnight, But the locals seemingly don't realize that the only viable economy is tourism (beach town/ RV camping area) and that's the only reason a city with a slowly declining population of 8,000 has a Home Depot, a Lowes, 4 grocery stores, a hospital, a movie theater etc. Come Labor day they'll get their town back somewhat come the grey skies and snow no one in their right mind would vacation there, since the sidewalks are all rolled up..
This is true everywhere, not just small towns.😢
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if you move some place without checking it out yourself your not to swift. rent an apartment for a year before you buy anything.
Western NC is beautiful, healthcare is beyond horrible. Driving to Duke was painful and expensive. They don’t offer resources for overnight stays & driving there and back in one day is impossible. Traffic has increased to make it twice as difficult. Do your research beforehand! Asheville lacks a good hospital system (one I would readily go to). When you’re younger it doesn’t seem so important so it isn’t on the checklist. We look for schools. But children need healthcare too.
Our hospital doubles as the barber shop. But the beach is nice.
Man, this is a happy group
You woldn't be happy if your hometown got overrun either.
I'm a single man. I seriously considered moving to the mountains of N Carolina. Then I started running into women from other countries messaging me on dating sites. Why are young very attractive women messaging me? What's the scam? I checked into it and turns out to be legit. Crazy. Now planning to move to SE Asia.
Pays to research.
Be careful
These young women are looking for a sugar daddy and a green card. Be careful. Once the money is gone, they will dump you. I have had several male friends fall for this scam. If you marry them. you will be expected to financially support the parents and siblings and sponser them to come over to the US. In addition, you will get calls/message from her relatives asking for financial help .
Sounds like you DIDN'T do your research. The scam is they want your MONEY. Do you really think a young, attractive girl is attracted to a much older man from another country? There's no fool like an old fool.
They just want a comfy life with a retiring American you has a dollar or two.
I assume your post is a joke.
Hello, Mr Cooke! So nice to know you are happy in Pinehurst!! Best regards!!!!
You have to tell us who is behind the screen! 😀
Shes hard up for sales.
Its called due diligence...at their age they should know that
You’re missing out by not touching on New Bern!
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!We are too full!!!!!!!!! No doctors!! 2 months for an appointment.
Spent most of my life in NC. I would never ever move back.
It has certainly changed.
I'm trying to get out now...
Where did you go? Curious
@@tallyrc Virginia, Tennessee, Kansas and now Florida.
It's great. Love it.
They need to add weather metrics to consider the frequency of major climate disasters in some of these areas: hurricanes, floods, extreme heat & humidity, power outages. Example: Bertie County has a storm risk score of 65.91%, a very high average.
Weather issues like they had by our grandparents? Hurricanes effect the entire eastern seaboard and the entire friggin gulf coast so it doesn't take a 3rd grader to understand that. Floods occur in flood plains, not rocket science here bobby. Heat occurs in the summer just like in did by your grandparents. Humidity - holy ape crap! what will we do, a major climate disaster of being humid today in the South, hahaha. The power went out? Rare as you voting with your mind vs party.
@@trauma50disaster1 I hope you are nicer than this to your new neighbors who want to live in your area.
@@robertparsons313 Like you treat your neighbors claiming major climate disasters when it's humid in the south? Cmon stop fear mongering your neighbors with a 66% very high average storm risk score. Niceness wasn't an issue, you not liking the facts is the issue.
@@trauma50disaster1 Please look at the facts on Bertie County...the number of school days missed due to weather events is one metric. It's just a fact of geography, whether climate change has anything to do with it or not.
@@robertparsons313 The thing about metrics is they can be manipuated, I should know I've seen it done. As an example how many days are missed in schoold due to no AC? That is not an emergency, that is hot like it was for your grandparents before ac was invented.
We moved to Hendersonville 4 years ago and couldn't be happier.