It's south of you.

and east of me.

By the way, nice use of a Firefly quote.

There are lots of strip clubs, and they used to have an awesome ECHL hockey team....

And the mall sucks.

Can't help, but love the post title :)

Hockey team went bankrupt two seasons ago. Mall sucks worse now.

Here's my email, in case anyone else is in mortal danger of becoming a Triadian, or a Tripod, or whatever they're calling themselves down there these days:

Behold This Land! And We Shall Call It...'This Land'

No, you shall call it...BORING!

That's where Chai-rista and I are from. We go back a couple of times a
year. So, let's see. Useful information, eh?

It's in a perpetual water crisis, so I hope your friends like brown
grass and year-round water restrictions.

Stamey's BBQ, beside the Greensboro Coliseum, is one of the Top 5 BBQ
places in North Carolina. North Carolina takes it's BBQ very
seriously--slow roast over hardwood coals until succulent.

The Greensboro Coliseum hosts an ACC or NCAA basketball tournament
every few years or so. Otherwise, there's nothing worth going to ever
booked there. It's a 23000 seat white elephant.

Nice minor league baseball stadium in uptown Greensboro. Too bad the
team is low Class A.

Any cultural events will be 45 minutes east (Chapel
Hill/Raleigh/Durham) or 90 minutes south (Charlotte). Get used to it.

Don't even consider living in High Point. Aside from cheap furniture,
it's a pit. Many people in North Carolina secretly hope the Soviets
will come back to power in Russia, just so they will nuke the place.
High Point--bad.

The area has two universities and, I think, four or five colleges. All
the same, a significant number of residents are just plain dumb.

Greensboro is almost exactly halfway between the beach and the
mountains. A long way, that is, to either one.

On the plus side, it has some quality Thai and Vietnamese restaurants
(near DC and NOVA quality).

Traffic isn't as bad as NOVA traffic, but it's pretty damned
irritating for such a small city. Oh, and the road construction you
see on the Interstates? That's permanent--it just shifts up or down
the highway every couple of years or so.

The local TV newscasts are howlingly bad. Very, very funny.

Anything else? Oh, yeah. Don't fly out of Piedmont Triad Airport
unless you like short turboprop commuter planes, or mini-jets landing
on short runways.

And finding a good doctor is going to take awhile. Doctors there are
seriously over-scheduled.

Pep

Greensboro/High Point? Don't know a thing. But I can't resist sharing this local history tidbit from News Quirks:

The Provincetown, MA Board of Selectmen has voted to remove an oil painting from their chambers that shows the Pilgrims ratifying the Mayflower Compact. Apparently one of the selectmen objected because no women were included in the picture; also, the only Indian shown doesn't have a ballot like everyone else.

I doubt Greensboro is anywhere near that sophisticated.

I so wish you were kidding, Utron.

More useful information:

I dated a girl that now lives in Greensboro. She puts the uppercase K in C-R-A-Z-Y.

I can find her number if the "people you know" are lookin' for a hell-cat in the sack and don't mind dead rats in their mailboxes when they call it quits. Oh, and don't let her drink too much, it interferes with her meds.

Wow. How did Sadie ever compete with a resume like THAT?

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Hey Phin:
I think I knew her when I lived in Greensboro. She bit me on the thigh at a party and then felt up Pep. But since we didn't have full body condoms with us we declined.

Or maybe Greensboro is full of psycho-chicks . . .

Nothing to add about Greensboro, except that in my experience the entire state of North Carolina smells like stale cigarette butts. YMMV.

Really, I just can't resist saying, "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!"

I lived there for a couple of months. My favorite High Point restaurant was The Claddagh, an Irish joint owned by an actual Irishman. There was a good Thai place down Main St. one way, and a nice Japanese place down Main the other way. I don't remember their names.

Greensboro seemed like a much nicer place, but I hardly bothered to drive there. The Hooters girls were good-looking though. Or so I heard.