comparing Greenville/Spartanburg to Winston-Salem/High Point/Greensboro (NC) (real estate, crime rate)

[friendnc]

Greenville area gets about 6" of snow per year on average, Greensboro about 8".

[hairmetal4ever]

My main concern is finding a job that pays enough...almost everything I've read suggests salaries suck in the Carolinas. And I'm already in Ohio where things are cheap so I doubt a cost-of-living difference can make up a $20,000 salary decrease.

[anonymous]

yea, that's my advice. I'm not the expert on moving, but it seems to me:
Step 1: Find a job.
Step 2: Determine if you want to live where the job is located.

some people have luxuries and burdens that I don't have, so I can see how this approach wouldn't work for everyone.

[ColdCanadian]

Originally Posted by tony123

Greenville averages about 1-2 snowfalls a year, and even then it only stays on the ground for 1-2 days. I haven't seen salt used here, but do see sand.

Thanks for the info.

I have another question about snow. Do either of these cities get winters without snow? How common or uncommon would this be?

[friendnc]

Originally Posted by ColdCanadian

Thanks for the info.

I have another question about snow. Do either of these cities get winters without snow? How common or uncommon would this be?

It happens from time to time (like last winter), but it's rare to go a winter without any mesureable snow at all.

[tony123]

I've been through 6 winters in Greenville. 2 of the 6 had no snow at all. Only one of the 6 had a winter with snow once a month for all of winter.

If the above stat of 6" per year is accurate, I haven't seen it in these last 6 years.

[friendnc]

Originally Posted by tony123

I've been through 6 winters in Greenville. 2 of the 6 had no snow at all. Only one of the 6 had a winter with snow once a month for all of winter.

If the above stat of 6" per year is accurate, I haven't seen it in these last 6 years.

The 6" per year is a 30-year average from the National Weather Service. I've lived in the Charlotte area all of my 41 years, and our weather/climate is practically the same as Greenville's. Snowfalls will not always be exatly the same in both areas, but it'll be very close. From 1976 until now, we (the Charlotte area) have only had 6 winters without any mesurable snow at all, 5 of those years in a period from '90-'95 (the other 2 being the winters of '75-'76 and '05-'06).

[ColdCanadian]

So far I'm liking how the Greenville and Charlotte area sound, even with 6 winters out of 41 without snow. How about Greensboro? Can they go snowless?

Up here it's impossible not not see at least 24 inches in the lightest years; with me probably having to shovel at least 16 of them.

A normal year 40-60, heavy years over 70 inches. And yes, I always end up shovelling at least half of it.
Fun times!

[tony123]

Well, you certainly have done more research and have more experience than I. I wasn't intending to get into a statistics war.

Just going from my seat of the pants memory. In any event. Snowfall is not a part of the lifestyle here in Greenville.

[anonymous]

ColdCanadian, I'm curious to find out about Greensboro's snow as well. I've been here since July, and it hasn't snowed yet this year - in fact it was in the 70's most of the day today. People here are telling me that it snows quite a bit, but I have no frame of reference to compare it to anywhere else.