Reviews & Comments
North Carolina, NC
re: Keep an open Mind
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6/25/2019There is NO "culture" in WNC. None. The so-called mountain culture is manufactured for marketing. The real culture of this area is poverty, ignorance, discrimination, abuse of the weaker, cruelty, religious intolerance and its extreme hypocrisy, and a still very backwards area with people who refuse to change. The typical comment heard is, "That's the way we always done it". Comments made against northerners trying to push and pull backwards communities forward are met with a slew of attacks and the usual, " Go back to where you came from". What these people don't realize is that the northerners are the ones bringing badly needed revenue. Northerners are paying high prices for services and products. Northerners are the only people doing the brunt of charitable work and proving large donations to these people. Northerners leave, so goes the money supporting the area. Who will do the community work badly needed? Most certainly Not the locals as they only take care of themselves and not even their close neighbors.
Something terribly wrong with this area. Further, the "culture" is Appalachian poor, not southern. Real southerners bristle when I've called NC part of the south. NC is in the south but those from Atlanta and elsewhere look down their noses at NC and especially the poorest area of WNC.
North Carolina, NC
re: North Carolina is not safe.
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6/25/2019I'm so terribly sorry for what has happened to you.
You've made a very serious and important point on just one unethical aspect of NC laws. Unfortunately there are many more laws that protect the wrong doer and further damage the victim.
Women. Laws in NC are used against you in matrimonial cases. If you have children and want/need to divorce the husband, you must wait one full year in order to have a separation agreement, not divorce. During that one full year your husband, the father of your children, is not required by NC law to pay you a dime NOR support the children. Zero support of any kind is required from him for those children in that one year waiting period. What do you do for money? Get a job (jobs) and how you watch your young children is your problem. No family to help? You're on your own. After that one full year apart, a separation agreement goes into effect. Divorce is next. Time consuming and costly. It's shocking how many men refuse to support their own children without the courts forcing them to.
Common situation in NC: the Male boyfriend or spouse beats you up, police/sheriff called, it will be You, the visibly beaten person, who will be arrested and taken to jail. The sheriff/police will take you to the hospital for treatment of your beating (often photos taken), but You, the female victim, will be arrested and jailed. Doesn't matter in the least that the Male is a huge angry idiot and you're badly beaten, bleeding, broken bone -- NC has backwards and extremely hateful attitudes and laws directed at women.
For those who voted done the original author's story regarding the 1% law -- Why? When it's used against you and your life destroyed we shall see. Obviously the negative votes are from those who don't care or understand the very real negatives of living in NC and vote all critical and accurate comments down.
To be expected by ignorant, uneducated people and real estate agents with vested interests in marketing the area and homes.