Waxhaw, NC Reviews

Industrilized. - 3/22/2019
Waxhaw used to be a good place, I was born and raised here loving the small friendly town and enviorment. The summer parades were amazing as this was an ideal place to raise a family. Then around 2012, everyone from the North mainly and California started moving here and everything is just advertising now. There's no room anywhere, way overcrowded and they ruined the towns traditions. The parade isn't good anymore and the schools are over crowded. I'm dying to get out of here and will soon. Read More

Schools are overrated, long commutes - 8/5/2018
The schools claim to be good but in reality they are just overrated and kind of bad plus the schools are all overcrowded from everyone moving here. No sidewalks anywhere and no bike lanes you have to drive everywhere. There’s nothing close by, you have to drive at least 20 mins to get to everything. Don’t move Read More

Home - 5/20/2011
It is dangerous and arrogant to jump to conclusions. It is not prejudice towards single women, or any women for that matter. It is a growing saddness that natives feel for the rapid and unwanted growth. Union county, and Waxhaw in particular, has always been country roads, farm land, and people who know, love, and help each other. It was being able to grow up and live around people and families you had known since birth. Sadly, it quickly became a place where greedy developers saw dollar signs and transplants saw a place where they could sell their over-priced homes and move to where they could take the same amount of money and have more square footage and higher acreage. If you were buying a snow shovel, chances are you probably weren't born and raised in Waxhaw. The gentleman was not short with you because you were a woman. He was probably just expressing his frustrated with what things have become. We like it here. Those of us that were born here are proud of it and appreciate the Read More

wats up - 2/25/2010
wats up im still in school.11th gradeRead More

looking for a place - 7/19/2009
I moved to Waxhaw NC and live near my daugher after my husband died. My problem is there is no public transportation and I dont drive. I feel like a burden on everyone and have no independence. I am looking to move anywhere in the USA that has good transportaion and access to a variety of culture and activities and is reasonable.I am in good health and only 64 Read More

Still a small town with access to Charlotte - 6/9/2009
While Waxhaw has grown much in the 15 years we've been here, it is still a small town. The only difference now is in addition to the antique stores (there were 52 at one point)there are actual big box stores you can run out to if you need something. You are close enough to Charlotte (about 35 miles) to have everything you need, but far enough away to have the slower pace of a small town.
People are friendly.
The quaint downtown looks like something out of a Norman Rockwell painting, water tower, train track and bridge, sculptures throughout town.
If you get to Charlotte, take the road Read More

Cute Town But It's Growing Fast - 11/3/2007
Once I went into the Ace Hardware Store in Waxhaw and asked the salesguy if they had any good snow shovels. He said rather curtly that it doesn't snow much in these parts and then walked away. Well, duh, I didn't ask him if it snowed in these parts, I asked him if the shovel could shovel snow. That is the typical snooty attitude towards women that I found in Waxhaw. There is much prejudice towards single women and you have to be careful. There is no reason for that prejudice but it happens. It's full of the blue-collar hick types that believe women are stupid and a few notches below them. I guess it would be a great place for married with children folks. On Saturday night at the local Food Lion the place is packed with all the long-time locals who do their shopping at the same time and it's like a reunion of sorts for everybody. They all know each other and stop to chat in the aisles. It was cute in a Mayberry type of way. I ended up moving back to Charlotte ("the city") 1/2 hour Read More

great place to live - 6/10/2006
beautiful place to live... can be outside 360 days a year... 3 hours from mountains... 4 hours from Read More

want to move - 4/18/2006
looking for information to relocate my Read More

Great little town! - 2/23/2006
Well, it's not much of a town, really. It's more like a wide place in the road. Think of a smaller, backward Mayberry, RFD, with some really great neighborhoods, nice families, new schools, and it's growing like gangbusters.

It's in the heart of what up until now has been North Carolina's horse country. Unfortunately, the area is being developed soooo fast that much of the farm land and open space is disappearing. Too bad but it's still a nice place to live. There are still lots of stables, too.

Among other little drawbacks is a stupid city ordinance that bans the sale of drinks by the glass. What's that all about? Some religious, do-gooder wackos must have passed that law because of a moral objection to booze. The downside is that good restaurants won't open in Waxhaw because they can't have a bar. Bummer.

On the plus side, it's close enough to Charlotte that there are good jobs, low unemployment, and lots of things to do. Charlotte is Read More