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Topic: Roanoke, VA - Info needed (Read 2495 times)
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Cheddar
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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. |
No Nerf, but I put a link to this very thread and I said that you all can guarantee for my purity. I even mentioned your case, and see if they can take a look at your lawn from a Michigan perspective.
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Sand
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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. |
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« Last Edit: February 27, 2011, 10:12:35 PM by Sand »
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schild
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I'd rather eat a bag of dicks than visit Roanoke again, let alone live there.
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Vaiti
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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.
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Yegolev
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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.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Hawkbit
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VA is one of the $3200 speeding ticket states, too. They use traffic offense fines to pay for their roadwork, I think.
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Yegolev
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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".
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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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.
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Strazos
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Driving in Virginia is a sport. Every other place I've been has worse drivers.
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Mrbloodworth
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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. |
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JWIV
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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. |
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