People are moving to North Carolina for its natural beauty and country vibes, but finding it doesn't offer a lower cost of living or diversity
"We fell in love with how it's full of space, the freedom, and the cost of living. It's absolutely beautiful here," Theden-Hart told Insider.
"My property taxes aren't going to be anything," she said."They're certainly not going to be what they were in California, which was about $5,000 to $6,000 a year.", North Carolina had the third-highest population growth, behind Texas and Florida, from July 2021 to July 2022, adding 133,088 new residents.Charlotte's Finest Properties
"It's very different," she said."You don't have to shovel rain and you don't have to shovel sunshine. So we picked a place where it did not snow. That was a big deal for us." Woodruff, a fourth-generation Californian, moved last May from Newcastle, a small town about 30 miles up the interstate from Sacramento. She settled in Caswell County, a Virginia-bordering town 45 miles north of Greensboro.
Woodruff, 53, traded her three-bedroom, 900-square-foot house in California for a 2,500-square-foot house, also with three bedrooms, in North Carolina. Her mortgage payment is about $100 more in North Carolina, she said."Even though we were far away from the city in California, you still got that light filter in the middle of the night so it was never really dark," she said."When it's dark here, it is absolutely incredibly beautiful. The stars are just amazing.
Alexandra Shaw loved the nature of North Carolina and settled in the Raleigh suburb of Cary, pictured here, in 2022.The mild winters in North Carolina encourage Shaw to engage in more outdoor activities than she would in the UK. She said winters there are essentially a lost cause.
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