Shittiest part of North Carolina

[Henry Chinaski]

inspired by Mt Olive’s old flame from Gastonia. Open to other options - i’m sure there are many.

 

[TownieDeac]

Of the options I voted Myers Park but it’s gotta be GSO

 

[TownieDeac]

Or in all seriousness it’s the big stretches of nothing in Eastern NC

 

[Henry Chinaski]

Of the options I voted Myers Park but it’s gotta be GSO

I will not entertain GSO slander here sir.

 

[TownieDeac]

I just learned your finest pupusa establishment is under armed guard

 

[mercurydime]

Easy on the Spindale. Lots going on there for a small town. WNCW, Barley's Taproom...And, I grew up in Forest City. Lots to like about Rutherford.

 

[Henry Chinaski]

I have since decamped to the capital, but 2/3 of my brood were sired in the fair seat of Guilford County.

 

[Henry Chinaski]

Easy on the Spindale. Lots going on there for a small town. WNCW, Barley's Taproom...And, I grew up in Forest City. Lots to like about Rutherford.

(In fairness i haven’t been in years - it’s not exactly a destination. Your positive review duly noted. It’s funny how some small NC towns have created a mini renaissance and other just continue to circle the drain)

 

[mercurydime]

Well, it actually is a destination. Many big name musical acts make their way to WNCW. I could make you a big ol' list. But here's a few:

Infamous Stringdusters
Steep Canyon Rangers
Tony Joe White
Larry McMurtry
The Bottle Rockets
Doyle Lawson
Tim O'Brien

So many more....

 

[Eckhouse]

As someone who grew up in Lumberton, it's definitely Chadbourn

 

[BarcaDeac]

My mom grew up in Lumberton and we’d always go visit my grandmother there. It blows and my mom hated it.

When I was looking at newspaper jobs as a senior there was a reporter job at the Robesonian listed. I emailed it to my mom and joked I was gonna apply. She called me a few mins later thinking I was serious saying she spent 18 years trying to get out of Lumberton no way would she let her kid move there. My grandmother had moved to the Atlanta burbs a few years before that.

 

[Henry Chinaski]

Well, it actually is a destination. Many big name musical acts make their way to WNCW. I could make you a big ol' list. But here's a few:

Infamous Stringdusters
Steep Canyon Rangers
Tony Joe White
Larry McMurtry
The Bottle Rockets
Doyle Lawson
Tim O'Brien

So many more....

I’ve literally never heard of any of these people but I’ll take your word for it. All Nickelback in my world

 

[Henry Chinaski]

As someone who grew up in Lumberton, it's definitely Chadbourn

It’s an interesting drive having to cruise thru there from the Triangle to Myrtle

 

[mercurydime]

I’ve literally never heard of any of these people but I’ll take your word for it. All Nickelback in my world

I honestly don't know how to react to this; but we good...so: 😄

 

[Eckhouse]

It's the last good pee stop on the way down there.

My mom had grown up in Lumberton too (50s-60s) and her parents still lived there when we did (80s). It wasn't terrible then, but it wasn't great either. I started commuting to a private school in Fayetteville in 5th grade. The last time I rode through there coming home from the beach, it was almost exactly the same except for a new Waffle House out by the interstate.

 

[Henry Chinaski]

It's the last good pee stop on the way down there.

My mom had grown up in Lumberton too (50s-60s) and her parents still lived there when we did (80s). It wasn't terrible then, but it wasn't great either. I started commuting to a private school in Fayetteville in 5th grade. The last time I rode through there coming home from the beach, it was almost exactly the same except for a new Waffle House out by the interstate.

you’re brave to stop. What always strikes me is that you could tell at some point 100 years ago it was a thriving little town and now it is burned out and just beyond depressing

 

[BeachBumDeac]

Extend that Chadbourn triangle to lumberton, Clinton, and Elizabeth town and you’ve captured most of the shittiest eastern NC area

 

[cookoutdeac]

Waynesville has been on the #incline for a few years now.

Canton is about to be with the plant closed now. Asheville adjacent without the ridiculous prices.

I vote anything in nothing-eastern NC here. Can't find a single redeeming quality about the area tbh.

 

[Eckhouse]

With a BK and a Hardees to choose from, hard to go wrong. I've long wondered what the Strawberry Festival is like.

 

[BeachBumDeac]

there are some shitty towns up in my native country (Hertford, Plymouth, Columbia, Windsor) but at least they are close to the water.

my mom’s family all came from the Conway/Jackson/Seaboard area which is also pretty breathtakingly boring.