[AT] Off Topic- Danville, VA , Northern NC area

charlie hill charliehill at embarqmail.com
Thu Feb 2 13:13:30 PST 2017


One last comment.  You won't need to bring your snow plow.
You might get a snow big enough to plow once a year if that
and it probably won't be anything a 4 WD car or truck can't handle
without a plow.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Spencer Yost
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2017 9:35 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic- Danville, VA , Northern NC area

Best of luck!   I hope you move here and can visit.

Spencer Yost



Spencer Yost
> On Feb 1, 2017, at 7:37 PM, macowboy at comcast.net wrote:
>
> Spencer,
>
> Thanks for the insight. We drove up RT 78 from Colombia SC earlier this 
> year when my oldest son graduated from Army boot camp. The ride was great 
> and the scenery was spectacular. I never thought I could possibly get a 
> job in that area of the country. I am will be in Danville on Feb 12th-13th 
> for an onsite interview so wish me luck.
>
> You hit on a couple major points of me considering a major move. First the 
> job market in New England has changed considerably in the past 20 years. 
> If you take Boston as a center and draw a 25 mile circle around it, this 
> is where all the jobs are. As a result you have southern/northern/western 
> MA, RI, NH, even southern Maine all heading to this 25 mile circle. The 
> traffic is awful. I had to leave a job in Bedford, MA as it was taking me 
> 2-4 hours each way for a 50 mile commute. You cannot live closer to your 
> job as the real estate cost is staggering. There were 2 homes built near 
> the Bedford job where I could have walked to work. I checked the price and 
> found that they were 1.4 million each and both were sold! Add to the mix 
> the politics/politicians in MA and lets just say they are not reflective 
> of my beliefs and values. My current commute is 90 miles each way but the 
> traffic is not too bad. We will see what pans out of this but the 
> recruiter is very upbeat and told me to!
  start packing my bags. I'll keep everyone posted.
>
> Jim Thomson
> Rehoboth, MA
> macowboy at comcast.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Spencer Yost" <yostsw at atis.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 8:31:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Off Topic- Danville, VA , Northern NC area
>
> Been there many times and being from the same general area(hour and a half 
> away) I can tell you that this is a nice place to live. Close to some of 
> the best beaches in the country, and some of the best mountains in the 
> country. Good place for outdoor activities. The NASCAR race at 
> Martinsville is less than an hour away if you like NASCAR. The weather is 
> moderate yet you have all four seasons. Low to moderate crime, clean 
> environment and good infrastructure - all with low taxes; at least 
> compared to elsewhere.
>
> Danville shares similar problems with other towns of its same size insofar 
> substance abuse, crime, development, etc are concerned.
>
> I would say the one issue you may want to research further is it is 
> downstream from one of the biggest coal ash spills in this country's 
> history. The ash spilled into the Dan river upstream here in North 
> Carolina in 2014. Danville sits right on that river and is the river the 
> city gets its drinking water from. As I understand it Danville was far 
> enough off away to be relatively unaffected by that spill but I would 
> still look at it much closer. Google "duke power Dan river coal ash 
> spill".
>
> John hall probably knows the area better than I do.
>
> I have found that digging into the Twitter account of cities/companies is 
> always a good way to get a quick birds eye view (excuse the pun) of local 
> goings-on: @cityofdanville
>
> Good luck!
>
> Spencer Yost
>
>> On Feb 1, 2017, at 6:57 AM, macowboy at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> I have had a interesting job opportunity come up in Danville VA. Usually 
>> they are just calls that don't go anywhere but this job has progressed to 
>> the point where they want me to come down for a face to face interview. I 
>> have not been to Danville VA before but spent a lot of time in the 
>> greater Charlotte area. My question is how is the area in general? The 
>> closest I have been to this area was Mebane, NC which was a very nice 
>> town and had a good BBQ joint. Any info will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Jim Thomson
>> Rehoboth, MA
>> macowboy at comcast.net
>>
>>
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