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North Carolina is Awesome

BillBrasky said:
From Winston, by car, I can be in:

Charlotte 1.5 hours
Raleigh 1.5 hours
Wilmington 3 hours
DC - 5 hours
Richmond - 3.5 hours
Nashville - 5.5 hours
Atlanta - 5 hours
Charleston - 4.5 hours
Plus I can get cheap ass flight out of CLT and GSO

It really is a great travel hub
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I don't consider 5 hour drives to be easy drives and the point was she said "baller" places. What is your guys definition of baller and which of these places qualify. Wilmington and D.C. are the only two that I'd consider close, and both are 3 and 5 hours away respectively, which wouldn't be my definition of an easy drive.
 
JDawg said:
I live about two and a half miles from the Inner Harbor and I'm in a perfectly safe and awesome area.
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Word. Anybody bitching about Baltimore has probably never spent any considerable amount of time there outside of going to an O's game. And, yes, if you are from out of town and don't know where the fuck you are going you may happen to venture into some rough territory if you head a few blocks west from Camden Yards (they don't call it West Baltimore for nothing).

Obviously there are bad neighborhoods, as there are in any city, but you have as much reason to go there as you do to go cruising down Patterson Avenue in Winston. I love NC as much as anybody else on this thread for the reasons mentioned, but I defy anybody on this thread to tell me that any city in NC has much more to offer than Baltimore in terms of culture, history, things to do, sports, proximity to other cities/beaches/mountains, etc. I will say that NC totally wins the food battle tho with Cookout, Bojangles, BBQ, Mexican food, and everything else that has been offered up even though Bmore has crabcakes going for them.
 
palmab03 said:
I don't consider 5 hour drives to be easy drives and the point was she said "baller" places. What is your guys definition of baller and which of these places qualify. Wilmington and D.C. are the only two that I'd consider close, and both are 3 and 5 hours away respectively, which wouldn't be my definition of an easy drive.
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ftr, an 'easy drive' for me is anything under 8 hours. if i can do it easily with one stop or less, it's an easy drive.
 
I think people in Baltimore are a little delusional because of the fact that the city has improved so much from where it was. When you are used to a war zone, a high crime city seems like paradise. It still has a long ways to go, but isn't what it used to be.

Baltimore reported 223 homicides in 2010. This has been part of a general trend in all violent crimes for the city, which have declined from 21,799 in 1993 to 9,316 in 2010. Even with stark population decline taken into account—Baltimore went from 732,968 residents in 1993 to just 620,961 in 2010—the drop in violent crime was significant, falling from 3.0 incidents per 100 residents to 1.6 incidents per 100 residents.[106] Baltimore's level of violent crime is still much higher than the national average, however. In 2009, a total of 1,318,398 violent crimes were reported nationwide across the United States, equivalent to a rate of just 0.4 incidents per 100 people.[107]
 
People from Baltimore/Maryland are as defensive about their great city/state as those from New Jersey. It is pretty entertaining.
 
TWDeac said:
People from Baltimore/Maryland are as defensive about their great city/state as those from New Jersey. It is pretty entertaining.
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yes

and lol about being close to beaches. they're shitty beaches. we've already covered this
 
clol69 said:
Sunset Beach
Calabash seafood
Lexington BBQ
Anything at Dewey's in WS or Krispy Kreme
Blue Ridge Pkwy
Buena Vista
Friendly folksLow housing prices
BB & T on a beautiful October afternoon scarfing BKF's liquor stash
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If you are referring to Biscuitville, then this is awesome. I can't figure out why there is not one anywhere near center city Charlotte though.

Fresh biscuits, friendly folks.
 
Milhouse said:
yes

and lol about being close to beaches. they're shitty beaches. we've already covered this
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Baltimore is 5 hours from the Outer Banks, same distance as Greensboro/Winston-Salem and an hour closer than Charlotte. Ocean City MD is garbage, but Delaware has some nice beaches (Dewey, Bethany, Rehobeth, etc.) that are the same distance from Bmore/DC as most NC cities are from Wilmington/Myrtle Beach.
 
attitudedeac said:
Baltimore is 5 hours from the Outer Banks, same distance as Greensboro/Winston-Salem and an hour closer than Charlotte. Ocean City MD is garbage, but Delaware has some nice beaches (Dewey, Bethany, Rehobeth, etc.) that are the same distance from Bmore/DC as most NC cities are from Wilmington/Myrtle Beach.
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This doesnt seem right. It took me 7 hours from NoVA although traffic was a nightmare.
 
It really depends on which of the outer banks you're referring to. They border pretty much the whole damn state.
 
rjequalsmj said:
This doesnt seem right. It took me 7 hours from NoVA although traffic was a nightmare.
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With traffic, yes it's fucking miserable and takes 6-7 hours, but I've made the trip from the DC/Baltimore area to Kitty Hawk in about 5 hours without traffic.

When I say Outer Banks I'm talking about the main island (Corolla, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, etc.). Even if you throw Atlantic Beach/Emerald Isle in there (not technically part of the Outer Banks) it is still a long ass drive from the Triad/Charlotte.
 
TWDeac said:
People from Baltimore/Maryland are as defensive about their great city/state as those from New Jersey. It is pretty entertaining.
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I don't get it, why wouldn't we be defensive when people are assholes about places that we live and love?
 
attitudedeac said:
With traffic, yes it's fucking miserable and takes 6-7 hours, but I've made the trip from the DC/Baltimore area to Kitty Hawk in about 5 hours without traffic.

When I say Outer Banks I'm talking about the main island (Corolla, Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, etc.). Even if you throw Atlantic Beach/Emerald Isle in there (not technically part of the Outer Banks) it is still a long ass drive from the Triad/Charlotte.
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Which is why people from Charlotte tend to go to beaches south of Wilmington.
 
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