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Title: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Cheddar on February 27, 2011, 04:59:13 PM Anyone here know anything about Roanoke? Big opportunity coming up for me - but its a huge move. Looks nice on the interwebs. Yes! Awesome place. 100k population so big enough for most everything you need while maintaining a small town/mountain town feel. The economy weathered the recent downturn fairly well from what I have been told. Its especially nice if you are into the outdoors at all (close to skiing, the Appalachian Trail, Blueridge Mountains, etc etc), if you are more into a thriving opera company and symphony not so much. I dont know anything about the local school system if you have kids. Opening a new thread. Need some input on Roanoke ASAP. Is it anything like Winston-Salem, NC? More like SC? Heeeelp. Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Sand on February 27, 2011, 10:09:01 PM Anyone here know anything about Roanoke? Big opportunity coming up for me - but its a huge move. Looks nice on the interwebs. Yes! Awesome place. 100k population so big enough for most everything you need while maintaining a small town/mountain town feel. The economy weathered the recent downturn fairly well from what I have been told. Its especially nice if you are into the outdoors at all (close to skiing, the Appalachian Trail, Blueridge Mountains, etc etc), if you are more into a thriving opera company and symphony not so much. I dont know anything about the local school system if you have kids. Opening a new thread. Need some input on Roanoke ASAP. Is it anything like Winston-Salem, NC? More like SC? Heeeelp. Its like neither. Winston-Salem last time I went through (which admittedly was a decade ago) smelled like tobacco (the WHOLE town) and was infested with gang violence with an absolutely decrepit school system. It was a southern version of a steel mill town, running into ruin. Same for most of SC except for Charleston. Again Roanoke still has some of that conservative/manufacturing vibe that you get in Southern towns, but being so close to the mountains it also has a thriving local artist, hippie town, mountain town feel to it. Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: schild on February 27, 2011, 10:46:31 PM I'd rather eat a bag of dicks than visit Roanoke again, let alone live there.
Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Vaiti on February 28, 2011, 02:44:39 AM Oh come on, it isn't that bad. Actually it might be, I've only ever gone there to visit StarCityGames for various things. Sure is purty tho.
Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Yegolev on February 28, 2011, 11:04:18 AM I am suspicious of Virginia in general and have only been to Richmond for any proper amount of time, so I'm going to put a lot of stock in the bag of dicks comparison.
Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Hawkbit on February 28, 2011, 11:47:55 AM VA is one of the $3200 speeding ticket states, too. They use traffic offense fines to pay for their roadwork, I think.
Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Yegolev on February 28, 2011, 11:53:46 AM Which is sort of funny when you consider that Virginians all have vanity plates and no knowledge of how to control a vehicle.
Maybe the word I wanted was "sad". Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: schild on February 28, 2011, 06:35:59 PM Driving in Virginia is a sport. Every other place I've been has worse drivers.
Anything over 80 is wreckless, though I did 151 on the stretch between Tokyo Rose and West End (Henrico). That was awesome. Roanoke is still boring as hell. I'm pretty sure Ched would live in a Leper Colony for enough money though, so I don't think anyone's opinion matters. Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Strazos on February 28, 2011, 07:10:45 PM Driving in Virginia is a sport. Every other place I've been has worse drivers. What? No way. Are you discounting the DC metro area? Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: Mrbloodworth on March 01, 2011, 06:17:34 AM Driving in Virginia is a sport. Every other place I've been has worse drivers. Anything over 80 is wreckless, though I did 151 on the stretch between Tokyo Rose and West End (Henrico). That was awesome. Roanoke is still boring as hell. I'm pretty sure Ched would live in a Leper Colony for enough money though, so I don't think anyone's opinion matters. They just upped a number of stretches to 70-75 in some places. Title: Re: Roanoke, VA - Info needed Post by: JWIV on March 01, 2011, 06:28:16 AM Driving in Virginia is a sport. Every other place I've been has worse drivers. Anything over 80 is wreckless, though I did 151 on the stretch between Tokyo Rose and West End (Henrico). That was awesome. Roanoke is still boring as hell. I'm pretty sure Ched would live in a Leper Colony for enough money though, so I don't think anyone's opinion matters. They just upped a number of stretches to 70-75 in some places. 267 is still 55 though. God forbid they cut their revenue stream by raising it to something sane. |