My mee maw used to work at the Kinston shirt factory for 20 years. Couldn't get on at Dupont because cacs jealously guarded access to those jobs. NAFTA killed the K.
Oh yes indeed. I remember they was complaining about no one could pass the piss test lol. My second oldest brother was at Smithfield and Electrolux for a while through Megaforce but he didnt get hired on because he couldnt stop messing with the broads out there
F’Nam is so depressing . Like as soon as you cross over into city limits , you feel this heavy , desolate feeling of an place barely holding on to a lifeline riding on the remnants of crumbling infrastructure that could completely give out at any minute.Bragg is the only thing really keeping the city afloat as far as major impact. FSU/Methodist help out too
Pawn shops/ sewing shops everywhere
Was just about to ask this…. What beaches in NC are good?
I haven’t really fukked with NC but I love Asheville. Was there last fall for like a week.
South Carolina low country had one of THE most booming economies during antebellum due to slave labor for rice production. So many Africans were being brought in to keep that rollin .
Man this is funny cause I had to stay in Fayetteville to cover the release of Rae Carruth and I was like damn this place looks depressing smh. The areas leading up to Fayetteville had me likeF’Nam is so depressing . Like as soon as you cross over into city limits , you feel this heavy , desolate feeling of an place barely holding on to a lifeline riding on the remnants of crumbling infrastructure that could completely give out at any minute.
There are a number of Carolina folks on here (South & North) so there are Fayetteville threads on here echoing that sentiment.
Legislators REALLY dropped the ball on everything east of Raleigh aside from Wilmington, which is a primary tourist destination, pretty much sells itself . Kinda like Myrtle in SC but Wilmington is not as universally popular .
and it just so happens ENC is the blackest part of the state that they chose to neglect .
It’s really depressing across damn near the entire coastal plain of North Carolina . And its become the poster child of the state’s poverty , despite them poor white folks in the mountains blowing up their houses from the Meth labs
I don’t see any anchor city emerging in Eastern NC for quite some time . Our grandkids might be able to see it one day
Man it looked like we drove into a time warp like back into the 1920’s or earlier. Man I was done when I saw a vote for whoever the sheriff is sign in the middle of a cotton field. The best thing about Fayetteville was this restaurant that was jumping on that Sunday morning when we had to head back to Charlotte. I have no idea what it’s called but I do know it was a Buffett and it was packed.
F’Nam is so depressing . Like as soon as you cross over into city limits , you feel this heavy , desolate feeling of an place barely holding on to a lifeline riding on the remnants of crumbling infrastructure that could completely give out at any minute.
There are a number of Carolina folks on here (South & North) so there are Fayetteville threads on here echoing that sentiment.
Legislators REALLY dropped the ball on everything east of Raleigh aside from Wilmington, which is a primary tourist destination, pretty much sells itself . Kinda like Myrtle in SC but Wilmington is not as universally popular .
and it just so happens ENC is the blackest part of the state that they chose to neglect .
It’s really depressing across damn near the entire coastal plain of North Carolina . And its become the poster child of the state’s poverty , despite them poor white folks in the mountains blowing up their houses from the Meth labs
I don’t see any anchor city emerging in Eastern NC for quite some time . Our grandkids might be able to see it one day
