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8/24/2013
Whatever your situation is (student, raising a family, professional) DO NOT MOVE to Greensboro, NC.
As a student, please do yourself a favor and spend these 4 special years in a fun and reputable school far away from Greensboro!!!! You will cherish these 4 years for ever...make them special.
I agree that raising a family correctly is important, but think of this....in Greensboro your kids will become ignorant, drama filled racists! Greensboro creates this bubble that kind of blocks external influence. While the world is changing, Greensboro is stuck in the past. And of course that will affect your kids life when they grow up. At the same time, and since there is nothing to do for parents (yes, there are some parks etc, but after a while they get old), the parents focus and spend all their time on their kids (good you will say) which is not good. The kids attitudes from mingling with southern kids becomes dramatic (in order not to use a worst word), which then passes on to the parents and makes them "slow" as well. Overall there is plenty of drama down here. Also and as you might see, the city is one giant suburb....there is no social fiber. Unless you are a loner, then depression comes naturally.
There was an effort to revitalize the 2 blocks that make the downtown, but it was a failure. Again an uneducated population, southern lifestyle, and as i mentioned above racism, have made the down town even worse. During the day, downtown is DEAD. At night, it splint into two zones....one for whites with sport bars serving beer and fat food and one zone for all others....looks bad. Restaurant scene is pretentious, just like its population.
The only good thing about this place...If you have a good paying job, you can actually save money since there is nothing to do (unless you become depressed and start spending money on worthless shopping). Also, yes there are mountains and beaches close by (min 2 hours for mountains and min 3 hours for beach).....thats not close by. Greensborians bring that up as an point of something good, but lets be honest, no-one wakes up Sat morning and says "lets drive THREE hours to go to the beach." Thats quite a hike. Oh, and lets not forget the weather....yes as everyone says, the weather is fantastic. Yes, i like my long summers (although a little muggy) but don't bloody sell that point you ignorant local, when i as a northerner i am the only one asking for outdoor patio or enjoying sitting in my garden, while you are in the AC all day....
Anyway, I got my family out of that city. My wife was getting moody and too dramatic with all these southern belles. My kids had no idea that there is whole other world out there (they did learn how to gossip and become dramatic at school)....after this I refuse to go anywhere below the PA border.
Hope this helps some people before they make a move to this place. Fi you are planning, please do yourself a favor and do a pre-visit. If you cant avoid it, consider Winston as a living place....school system it bad, but the community is much better
pete | Greensboro, NC