re: Anyone know anything about Sanford, NC from personal experience

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You can go wrong in NC, weather is awesome.

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Eastern NC is hot and muggy in the summertime.



Like everywhere else in the south.

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Do you hunt? Some excellent hunting not far from there at Anderson Creek Hunting Preserve. I bought a German Shorthair from them a few years ago and have gone back to hunt him there once a year.

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shite yea I hunt and would love to check that out. Im an avid saltwater fisherman and hunter.

In fact those are 2 of the reasons that makes me hesitant to leave.

We have a 1600 acre place in Tensas between my brothers and I. It was 800 acres that we owned that was passed down and just last year we coaxed my uncle to sell his 800 because he never used and got a great price. I know they probably got some decent hunting there in NC but hard for me to imagine it’s as good as where we hunt now but still would love to try that area. I’ve hunted West, Midwest but never East.

As far as saltwater fishing we have a camp in Grand Isle. From April to September we’re balls to the wall saltwater fishing with 1 or 2 freshwater trips mixed in.

Those are the main reasons I don’t want to leave Louisiana, along with being far away from family, especially mom. She’s getting older. Like most of you said it’s only 8-12 months so not long.

I’m 37 years old, lost wife nearly 8 years ago now. Around same time dad passed away. I’ve had cancer as well but I’ve done good the last decade so being that far away from the doctors I’ve had for nearly 20 years doesn’t scare me as much as it once would. I do large industrial projects from LPG, plastics, pharma to infrastructure and things are a tad slow everywhere in our industry right now. May jump on it. I’m going to pray about.

ETA: as much as I hate our state, the fishing and hunting and family keep me here. I mean I literally almost hate everything about our state. Our fishing is second to none though on the continent. I wouldn’t live anywhere else permanently.

It sounds as if you are the first domino in your companies planned domino train. Everything they want to do depends on you saying yes.

I leave it to you to figure out how they would feel if you screw up their planning.

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shite yea I hunt and would love to check that out. Im an avid saltwater fisherman and hunter.

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Roanoke Island is about 4 hours from Sanford; Wanchese is there, some of the Wicked Tuna (TV show)boats are out of there.

Moorhead City is about 3 hours. They have deep sea fishing boats there.

Wilmington is about 2 1/2 hours. I assume they have deep sea fishing there as well.

Uwharrie Natonal Forest is just west of Sanford about an hour.
A former boss of mine hunted bears near Lake Mattamuskeet; maybe in the Pocosin Lakes Nat. Wildlife Refuge. That's near the coast.

Lots of deer and dove hunting. Limited Tundra Swan hunting on the coast; 5,000 permits issues annually. The turkey this season was April 11 through May 9th.

We move to NC almost 30 years ago; it is a great place to live for the most part. I have driven through Sanford but don't know anything about it.

Drove through on a recruiting trip. Lot of trees.

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This post started out like hell yeah, baw, and then ended terribly. Sorry for your losses.

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It could always be worse. I used to hate frickers who used to say that but it’s true. I’ve lost a lot but have been blessed. I feel very fortunate right now. I know people who’ve never struggled with their careers or family issues their entire adult life but this pandemic bull shite has wrecked their lives at the moment. Good hardworking people. It’s heartbreaking.

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Bird hunting is excellent. Everything from quail to pheasant to duck. Fishing is very good too. I would say take the job. With your lifestyle, I highly doubt you will be disappointed.

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Would love to wreck some birds.

I’ve always heard the saltwater fishing is pretty good there. For some reason the redfish grow freakishly large. Not the numbers we have but they have some big ones. I want to say the world record Redfish came from North Carolina.

ETA: World Record Red did come from North Carolina. 94.2lbs. That’s 31# heavier than Louisiana record. Geez. NC and Delaware are only 2 states with bigger record weighing red than Louisiana. They don’t have our numbers like I mentioned but I’m shocked to see how big they are.

download Tinder (or gindr if thats your thing).

I can't really say a bad thing about it, except for the Floridian, half back, Yankees. They're becoming a problem.

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download Tinder (or gindr if thats your thing).

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TD is all the social media I do. No Twitter, Facebook or Instagram. I used to be on LinkedIn but it started evolving into Facebookesque so I shut it down.

I’ve had a couple married friends of mine tell me I was insane for not using Tinder considering I’m widowed and busted up with a younger lady several months ago I was dating for almost a year. I worry about too much personal information being shared and it somehow affecting my place of business.