City approaching 100K population.
Cost of living unparalleled.
Doing more work to improve downtown.
and improve park and trail system.
Plenty of black people here.
3rd largest state school ECU is there, so it's a collegetown.
1 hour drove to downtown Raleigh, which is live, and there is no traffic until you get right into Raleigh.
90 minute drive to closest beach, Atlantic Beach. 2 1/2 hour drive to Outerbanks. 2 hour drive to Hampton Roads
Pamlico Sound equivalent to Chesapeake Bay is even closer.
Opportunity..and city is open to whoever wants to do something and bring fresh energy to it.
Personally, I would move to Raleigh, but G-Vegas is center of Eastern North Carolina....I know this cause I grew up in Eastern NC and did undergrad in the Triangle.