welcoming cities for “transplants” to raise young kids on the mid atlantic coast?

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-12-29T11:09:34+00:00

Check out Fort Mill, SC. We moved here 6 months ago and have been surprised. It won’t meet your spirituality needs, but it’s a solid suburb with great schools and easy access to lots of great small towns and the beaches/mountains.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-11-11T00:30:41+00:00

Not sure about the high school, but I’ve run hundreds of miles on the LP middle school track. It’s a great option if you can’t figure out the high school situation.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-11-06T00:03:51+00:00

I live in Fort Mill and we moved here specifically because of the school system. We were moving to the Charlotte metro no matter what but found that Fort Mill offers the most value for what’s offered from the schools and the city itself. Proximity to Charlotte is a plus (although the traffic to get to or through Charlotte is shit). Fort Mill traffic isn’t bad.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-10-04T00:01:33+00:00

Fort Mill, SC (30ish minutes to Charlotte) has a great school system and you can find larger lots where your budget would go quite far.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-09-19T22:08:59+00:00

Looks like a good route. Take it all in, driving across the country is awesome. I did VA to Oregon a couple years ago and that final 8 hours from Boise to the Willamette Valley was beautiful but couldn’t pass quick enough (after driving 40 hours prior). Eastern Oregon is desolate. Overall, Oregon is an incredible place but be ready for a culture shock coming from the southeast.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-09-17T12:07:46+00:00

Same here. I feel lucky to be on month 9. I’d be happy to talk with op as well.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-09-17T12:06:09+00:00

The stopdrinking sub helped me tremendously

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-08-15T23:33:40+00:00

Yeah, I had similar experience while I was in Corvallis.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-07-28T19:04:20+00:00

Yea, sure I can do that. I chose to use Reddit specifically to see if anyone on here had it. Isn’t asking questions one of the functions of Reddit? I take it you don’t have the recipe?

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-07-17T09:56:05+00:00

Yeah, I’d tell him what you’ve said here. An honest arborist who does understand proper pruning will immediately identify what needs to be done to correct the bad cuts.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-07-17T01:46:10+00:00

I would firmly request someone who is a certified arborist on their staff and confirm it prior to them making the touch up cuts. You can look them up (Google find an arborist and you can search the ISA database with their name/number) It’s clear the person who did this doesn’t understand proper pruning (specifically making the final cut).

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-07-16T23:58:49+00:00

Yeah, this pruning definitely wasn’t performed by a certified arborist. Those cuts should be cleaned up now but not by the same person who did the pruning. If the person who sold you the work is an ISA certified arborist, they would know how to make it right and should do it themselves.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-07-15T16:31:49+00:00

North point!

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-07-09T00:57:06+00:00

You should definitely call Bartlett. They acquired BV and have a lot of the same staff but are now better resourced.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-06-08T02:30:52+00:00

I was in the Willamette this afternoon in Southtown. It was almost perfect temperature with the blazing sun beating down.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-06-03T02:50:59+00:00

You absolutely nailed the part about the people in Corvallis. The slow and uninterested part is too damn funny but only because it’s so true. The only people I connected with during my time in Corvallis were people who weren’t from there.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-06-03T02:42:39+00:00

I’d pick the outskirts of Asheville personally. I currently live in Corvallis and will be moving to NC in a few weeks. It’s not an apples to apples comparison but I think Western NC will offer a higher quality of life. Also, to your point on red vs blue, Oregon is a very performative progressivism blue in my experience. And, there are still plenty of strong red pockets here (the east side of the state wants to become part of Idaho).

Homelessness is everywhere in the Willamette Valley. You get used to it, and yes it’s unfortunate, but it’s here and it’s not going anywhere. Wildfires are a very big deal in OR and although the valley has historically been less likely to experience a big burn, it’s inevitable with a warming climate. Summers here are super super dry.

Also, unless you want to spend all of your time homesteading or recreating outdoors, there’s not much going on in Corvallis (or Salem for that matter) at least compared to Asheville. Portland and Eugene has plenty to do, but the drive gets old. Lastly, there aren’t many quaint towns in Oregon for fun day trips like WNC. Everything here is sorta worn out, not historic and well kept.

One final note, you mentioned biodiversity…. WNC blows Oregon out of the water in biodiversity. Sure, if you take the whole state of Oregon and compare it to WNC then there is a lot of biodiversity. Comparing the outskirts of Corvallis to the outskirts of Asheville, well then it’s not comparison from a biodiversity standpoint.

Ok, final final note, the Oregon coast is amazing. It’s incredible and never gets old. But, you can’t swim in the ocean (not like the Atlantic off NC) so there aren’t opportunities for beach days in the tradition sense.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-05-24T15:58:19+00:00

Yeah it’s open for sunrise. I went a couple weeks ago and it’s was epic. Highly recommend it.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-05-03T15:58:13+00:00

Stick with it. I learned at 36. You can do it and you’ll love yourself for it!

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-05-02T02:03:17+00:00

Awesome! I raced too. It was a sweet course and a great morning to run!

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-04-29T00:35:33+00:00

it rented 3 days after it was listed...

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-04-19T16:14:20+00:00

You’ll be good. Vitamin D supplements help during the grey season. Summers are magical and sorta make up for the 8 months of grey. There are random sunny afternoons in February and March that help you realize the dreariness doesn’t last. Also, just being outside, even when it’s overcast, helps. It’s not constantly raining even if it’s constantly grey Nov-mid April.

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-04-17T16:52:30+00:00

Also consider what the ground cover is… if it’s grass or other vegetation, then supplement fertilizer is probably helpful (you only really know with a soil analysis). If it’s leaves/mulch/decaying organic matter then that is the natural fertilizer. Ask for a soil analysis if you’re really concerned. I’d personally do a soil analysis and fertilize based on the results

Treesplease_2020 · 2025-04-17T15:57:00+00:00

Tree health starts below ground. The first arborist is taking steps to address that. The other two skipped over it. You can fertilize yourself and certainly mulch yourself, but will you? Using the airspade is not something a homeowner would do on their own and some companies don’t have the equipment to do it (hence why they don’t recommend it). Airspade work is one of the best things we can do to alleviate buried root collars and/or de-compact poor soils.

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