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Rocky Mount NC

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
This is the town i was getting my hair cut in. It is such a lovely place. NOT

http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/dangerous-small-cities/

The racial makeup of the city was 32.4% White, 61.3% African American, 0.6% Native American, 1.0% Asian, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.7% of the population.

They have been having a lot of drive buys lately. 4 people were shot last week as they were driving down the road. Nobody saw anything.[:(]

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  • Dads3040Dads3040 Member Posts: 13,552 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dav1965
    This is the town i was getting my hair cut in. It is such a lovely place. NOT

    http://www.movoto.com/blog/top-ten/dangerous-small-cities/

    The racial makeup of the city was 32.4% White, 61.3% African American, 0.6% Native American, 1.0% Asian, and 1.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.7% of the population.

    They have been having a lot of drive buys lately. 4 people were shot last week as they were driving down the road. Nobody saw anything.[:(]

    You mean the Dindunuffins dinseenuffin? Dang! I am shocked.
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About fifty-five years ago I went through Rocky Mount about once a month on a Trailways Bus. All I saw of a town was the bus station and a diner. If the bus driver hadn't announced we were in Rocky Mount I'd never have known we were in a town.

    I guess Rocky Mount has grown up some. [V] [B)] [xx(]
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This list is wrong. There are NO small, dangerous cities in NJ???? Camden is small and is usually number 1 in murders in the nation. Only been through Rocky Mount, but never stopped there. My two best friends live there. I grew up with them here in NJ and at about 16 or 17, they moved to NC.
  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Like I said on the other post.I visited there in the mid 70's and it was a quiet furniture making town,like High Point.Did the NATIVES come out the woods??[B)]
    I spent a weekend maybe 3 days,it was quiet.
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Like I said on the other post.I visited there in the mid 70's and it was a quiet furniture making town,like High Point.Did the NATIVES come out the woods??[B)]
    I spent a weekend maybe 3 days,it was quiet.

    High Point has kinda gone to hell in a hand basket too.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • shilowarshilowar Member Posts: 38,811 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Like I said on the other post.I visited there in the mid 70's and it was a quiet furniture making town,like High Point.Did the NATIVES come out the woods??[B)]
    I spent a weekend maybe 3 days,it was quiet.

    High Point has kinda gone to hell in a hand basket too.


    The American furniture industry took a dump 15 years ago. Southside Virginia (Danville) and the High Point were hit with massive unemployment and that has never rebounded.
  • riflemikeriflemike Member Posts: 10,599
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Like I said on the other post.I visited there in the mid 70's and it was a quiet furniture making town,like High Point.Did the NATIVES come out the woods??[B)]
    I spent a weekend maybe 3 days,it was quiet.

    High Point has kinda gone to hell in a hand basket too.


    why do you say that[?]
  • catgunguycatgunguy Member Posts: 6,089
    edited November -1
    There were some surprising statistics in that article.
  • JamesRKJamesRK Member Posts: 25,670 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by riflemike
    why do you say that[?]
    I lived in or near High Point at various times and locations from 1949 until 1970 and I still have in-laws and out-laws living there.

    High Point was a good place for decent people to live and work, mostly in the furniture and textile industries. It was the furniture capital of the world. You could walk unarmed from one end of town to the other, including Washington Street, without much worry. As long as you stayed out of West End your chances of survival were pretty good.

    The only thing in High Point that reminds me of what High Point used to be is the Dog House on North Main Street, if it's still there. The town is full of dilapidated and derelict buildings. Everything is a place where such-and-so used to be. You couldn't pay me to walk down Main Street unarmed now.

    Maybe High Point isn't as bad as I think it is, but looking at it makes me sad.
    The road to hell is paved with COMPROMISE.
  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by JamesRK
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Like I said on the other post.I visited there in the mid 70's and it was a quiet furniture making town,like High Point.Did the NATIVES come out the woods??[B)]
    I spent a weekend maybe 3 days,it was quiet.

    High Point has kinda gone to hell in a hand basket too.
    Yep... Hell has been coming south.
    Won't be long 'till it starts goin' east from Charlotte.
    That's when I'm buggin' out and goin' further south.
  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Furniture manufacturing tanked in NC closer to 30 years ago rather than 15. Rocky Mount was a textile mill town not furniture .When textiles tanked so did the town .Those that could afford to did the white flight thing and skipped out .Leaving guess what .It is regularly rated as one of the worst towns to live in in Nc .By the way I am about 50 miles south of there.
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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