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SB's avatar

Can you move? I just told my husband about that list of states and said we'd be getting the heck out. NC is bad enuf. We have a great neighborhood but when my kids are gone, I may be going to FL if it stays red after DeSantis.

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Jacquie's avatar

We can, but it’s at least a few years out. It’s hard to just pick up and leave everything behind when you still have many things holding you here. Tempting, but not reality at the moment

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Karen's avatar

My sympathies. It is very hard to relocate. Also, you may move to a state that is red now, but who knows the future. My county in Texas is pretty bad.

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Jacquie's avatar

That’s what we said. Other than Florida, where is there to go?

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AM's avatar

Have family in western NC and Tennessee; TN has impressed me to some extent. Lots of growth in the last few years.

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Paul Ashley's avatar

I fled Illinois for western NC when I retired six years ago. Luckily NC had a good midterm outcome and moved rightward a bit. Now if we can get rid of Cooper in two years. But I, too, wonder if I may have to move again at some point, but I'm not keen on risking hurricane-prone Florida just yet.

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SB's avatar

Well, I live near Raleigh and it seems every hurricane ends up over Raleigh, usually much diminished. FL gets it worse tho

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Paul Ashley's avatar

I lived in Charlotte when Hugo came through still blowing at 90 mph. After leaving for a career move, the return to NC has me in Flat Rock. It's more conservative and, as with today, we just get Florida's leftover rains.

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