Pulaski

I think it's more about attracting visitors than selling wine.

Sally Redux

Undrinkable wine.

An interesting abstract concept.

robin1234

Most is undrinkable, too sweet. However, some has that character sometimes described as "foxy" which I take to mean that unusual flavor imparted by the concord and other unusual grape varieties they grow up in the finger lakes. Take Bully Hill, for instance. 90% of their wines are sickly (too sweet, too bland) but I find some of them interesting once in a while. Their Baco Noir and Cabernet Franc and a couple of the other reds, for instance.

The wine museum at Bully Hill is one of the most interesting museums I've ever visited.

yellowroom

I didn't find Richmond VA particularly humid. Weather was moderate with four seasons but summers were a bit warm for me. And the mozzies were hungry, but then i did live near water. Reasonable house prices. Richmond itself is balanced Rep/Dem, Charlottesville has a reputation for being liberal and anything rural is strongly Republican if not Tea Party. Easy to get back to Europe with feeder flights from Richmond to PHL and New York. All the usual facilities for healthcare, easy access to the coast, the mountains, and the big cities, ie DC and NY. Oh, and lots of 'history' in the area, with Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Monticello etc. there are worse places to live!

Pulaski

That used to be the way for the few wineries in NC when we moved here 11 years ago; there were about a dozen at that time. Within five years of us arriving there were forty wineries and many make very good wine.

One of our favourite wineries is run by a retired couple, former teachers, who learned wine-making techniques in France and focus on making the best wines from the grapes that grow here, and IMO they are very good, smooth, with good flavours, and not at all sweet, except of course for their dessert wine.

Now there are over eighty wineries in NC.

I don't know how many breweries there were 11 years ago. I don't remember there being any, but there were certainly very few. Now there are 120!

Uncle_Bob

When i lived there i had a cape cod canal tunnel permit sicker for my car

Uncle_Bob

I almost got a job in Charleston, I researched it and thought it would be a nice place to live, I'm sure i could get used to the humidity again.
We vacationed in NC & SC this year. I spent a week in Myrtle Beach, if there is one place to put anyone off an entire state then Myrtle beach is it
We rented a beach house on the ocean which we thought would be nice. But every night from about 10pm there would be a constant flow of rednecks setting off fireworks on the beach until 2am every night.

Wilmington, North Carolina is nice. But like most places I like on the east coast there's little work opportunity for me.

Hotscot

This is all great info...I'm taking notes.

WEBlue

I've heard it's usually only briefly that one or both Cape Cod bridges will be closed. High winds (70 mph sustained or more) in the area are the typical reason.

robin1234

I think that "isolation" thing probably depends on perspective ... if you actually live there, weeks or months could go by and you have no reason to go off Cape, so the bridge being closed for a while isn't going to faze you.

Uncle_Bob

When i lived there it was over an hours drive and over the bridge to the nearest home depot. The mom and pop hardware store was very expensive. So sometimes it was worth the hassle.
With the tourist change over at the weekend you can often feel trapped on the cape at the weekends because the traffic is backed up for miles either side.

They didn't close the bridges too often as far I can remember, but they will cut the traffic down to single lane in high winds.

Tourists are tough to deal with. The cape has plenty of roundabouts, the tourists come and don't know how to use them, they think they can just drive straight in and not yield.

Also there are miles and miles of beaches but they are actually tough to get to. Car parks can be full by 10am easy. Resident parking permits are $35 but only limited to beaches in your town of residency. Go to a beach in another town and you pay the tourist rate.

I lived in a town called Sandwich, which is divided into East and South. I used to annoy the wife when driving past the road sign which read E. Sandwich and S. Sandwich, I would raise my voice and say Egg Sandwich Sausage Sandwich

Michael

Some may think that east coast summers are not too humid just like my relatives think Minnesota winters are not too cold but every time I've on the east coast in the summer or Minnesota in the winter, they are all wrong.

scrubbedexpat091

Adaptation...Spend a couple winters in Minnesota...lol

When I lived in San Diego, I'd have a jacket on when it got into the 60's, now here in BC where the winters are cooler, I am out and about all day with just short sleeves, needs to be into the 50's before a jacket comes out.

I used to think -2C was cold, then I spent a winter where it stayed below freezing for several months getting into -30C range, then once -2 came back, it was downright balmy and comfortable.

Go to Edmonton in Spring and you will actually find people in shorts at 2-3C outside, months of -20C makes 2-3C seem pretty damn warm.

hungryhorace

The (beautiful) Carolina's are next on the Horace's holiday list you shall be pleased to know. I always enjoy heading down south. The lifestyle is slower and the people FAR friendlier.

Pulaski

Unless you're a yankee. ..... Brits, on the other hand, seem to be especially welcome.