Why You Should Move To The Carolinas

If you’re reading this, you probably already have your share of reasons why you should move to the Carolinas. Well, it’s our turn to tell you some of the reasons we love the Carolinas.

Aside from great climates, affordable living, jobs, and quality lifestyles…

The richness of history and natural beauty is one of our top reasons why we love North and South Carolina. In the span of four hours you can go from the Smoky Mountains in Asheville, to the blue waters of the Atlantic outside of Charleston.

From the streets of Charleston, to the historic sand dunes of the Outer Banks, history surrounds you in the Carolinas. One of the best ways to experience the heritage of either state is to spend some time on the Heritage Trails.

Both states take advantage of the temperate climate and pack their calendars full of events year round. Some of the more famous include the Bele Chere music festival in Asheville, the performing arts festival, Spoleto, in Charleston, and the Beaufort Water Festival, in Beaufort, SC.

North Carolina is famous for the Research Triangle Park outside Raleigh and Durham (largest research park in the world), the Piedmont Triad Research Park, near Winston-Salem, and University City outside Charlotte (second largest banking center in U.S.). Many other cities, including Columbia and Charleston have blooming business centers. The Carolinas are crisscrossed by 6 major interstates and over 100,000 miles of state highways with some of the greatest amount of growth is occurring along the I-85 corridor and if you need to go far, the Carolinas are home to 6 major airports in convenient locations. Hot jobs in the Carolinas include medical, technology, banking, education, and manufacturing. Once known as a textiles center, in the past couple of decades many manufacturers moved overseas. Many corporations have taken note of the skilled workers, and tax benefits and moved in.

The Carolinas is about comfort, family and food. North Carolina is especially known for its barbecue. There are two types of barbecue; Eastern, with its red pepper and vinegar based sauce, and Western, which uses a tomatoes and brown sugar in addition to the red pepper and vinegar.

The Carolinas are known for their great seafood as well, and especially in South Carolina. South Carolina’s distinctive style for cooking seafood is called, “Calabash.” Originating in the town of the same name, Calabash style cooking dips the seafood in evaporated milk, then a breading mixture and then it’s deep-fried and the mountains of Western North Carolina specialize in river trout.

No matter whether you decide you should move to North Carolina or South Carolina, both states have excellent health care facilities. North Carolina is home to four medical universities and South Carolina has a medical college in Charleston, and major hospitals in Columbia and Greenville/Spartanburg.

Everyone has there own reasons why they should move to the Carolinas. What’s yours?

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