I am considering taking a job there. go.

12/7/2010 8:57:00 PM

at least it's not Kannapolis.



but in all seriousness..it's 45 minutes from Charlotte, 45 minutes from the Triad. Home of Cheerwine, headquarters of Food Lion. Traffic is going to be a bitch there on 85 for the next 3 years as they try to replace the bridge over the river just north in Spencer. I'll think of more later.

12/7/2010 8:58:01 PM

The answer to this thread is:

No.

12/7/2010 8:58:57 PM

Scooter Sherrill has a chain of laundromats in town.

12/7/2010 8:59:46 PM

They make a good steak

12/7/2010 9:02:17 PM

i'm pretty sure that place physically exists

or at least people have told me they are from there

they might all be liars though, who knows

kids these days, i tell ya

12/7/2010 9:04:50 PM

ask adam8778 & TheBullDoza. i'm pretty sure they are from that area.

12/7/2010 9:06:26 PM

Cheerwine and Lutherans.

12/7/2010 9:09:55 PM

Salisbury is, in all honesty,a nice little town. I guess it depends on what you are into. There is nothing particularly exciting about it, but there are a few good bars and restaurants popping up around the downtown area.

I grew up there, but let a woman trick me into moving up the road to Lexington. I plan to sell my house in the next year, and move back to Salisbury to be closer to family and friends.

You mind me asking where you are looking to work?

12/7/2010 9:12:42 PM

ask salisburyboy if you can find his bunker.

also don't be a jew.

12/7/2010 9:13:31 PM

What adam8778 said and...

good people, good location, and good bbq

12/7/2010 9:16:57 PM

^^^thanks. that's the idea i get. I live/work in kind of a small, crappy town now, but its like 20 minutes from where i grew up and i have a lot of friends here. It's cool that Salisbury's near Charlotte, even though I've never been too fond of it.

They want me to come in for an interview regarding a sportswriting position at the Salisbury Post. I understand high school sports are pretty big there. Catawba is there, too.

[Edited on December 7, 2010 at 9:23 PM. Reason : asdf]

12/7/2010 9:22:36 PM

It's a great little town; about 20-30 minutes to anywhere you'd want to be; AAAANNNDD they just got a HUGE grant to install municipal internet. It's supposed to be similar to U-Verse level service (IP TV/phone/50Mbit internets.)

12/7/2010 9:38:04 PM

^I'm sure Time Warner will sue to prevent it

12/7/2010 10:13:01 PM

I love salisbury. Then again, I love bel haven too.

12/7/2010 10:15:35 PM

Haps. Nuff said.

12/7/2010 10:18:18 PM

then you probably know it's "Belhaven"

12/7/2010 10:18:28 PM

sorry. i didn't reread it and hadn't noticed I put a space. For that I apologize. I am dissapoint.

12/7/2010 10:23:08 PM

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Salisbury%2C+NC

12/7/2010 10:27:25 PM

Quote :

"TWW, tell me about Salisbury, NC"

Quote :

"Nice Day for a White Wedding"

12/7/2010 10:33:32 PM

Doesn't Dole live there?

They have this station:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSTP

Quote :

"WSTP (1490 AM) is a radio station licensed to and serving the area of Salisbury, North Carolina, USA. The station broadcasts a News Talk format. The station is owned by Rowan Media Inc.. Programming includes: G. Gordon Liddy, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Kim Kommando, Jim Bohannon, The Laura Ingraham Show, Bill O'Reilly, and The Savage Nation (Michael Savage). The station is an affiliate of the Atlanta Braves radio network, the largest radio affiliate network in Major League Baseball.[1] WSTP is also affiliated with the Tar Heel Sports Network, a division of Learfield Sports.[2]"

Quote :

"WSTP, "Newsradio 1490", is an AM news/talk radio station whose programming also includes broadcasts of Atlanta Braves baseball games and those of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, as well as NFL games."

You can get your UNC sports and right wing radio all in one spot!

[Edited on December 7, 2010 at 10:46 PM. Reason : .]

12/7/2010 10:42:04 PM

Quote :

"Doesn't Dole live there?"

Well she claimed to live there with her mother in order to run for the NC Senate seat. She hasn't lived in NC for something like 50 years.

12/7/2010 10:49:53 PM

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw, somebody beat me to the steak joke

12/7/2010 11:21:14 PM

Quote :

"You can get your UNC sports and right wing radio all in one spot!"

this actually sums it up pretty well.

best things about salisbury are haps grill, the salty caper and cheerwine.

12/7/2010 11:35:40 PM

Quote :

"You can get your UNC sports and right wing radio all in one spot! "

actually from what I've seen, Salisbury is one of the most NC State friendly towns

12/8/2010 9:48:52 PM

^^

man, I could use some Haps right about now.

12/8/2010 9:55:10 PM

I grew up in Salisbury and am home for Christmas now. The place sucked growing up, but after traveling around and working in other small southern towns I've actually come to appreciate it. It is a very old and historic town and there is actually a growing number of tourists coming to shop and visit the sites/museums. For a small southern town there is a lot of money here. Mostly due to cheerwine, food lion and older textile mills. All the money has allowed us to keep the town in good shape and develop in a progressive, but controlled fashion. The city just hooked up fiber optic internet for homes and businesses, there are several good bars downtown, there are several projects going on right now to renovate apartments and condos above these bar areas. The downtown area has also become home to a number of art galleries and craft places. We also have dozens of great BBQ joints, all the fast food chains, and dozens more local eateries. As for sports, it's a pretty big deal. This weekend we have Salisbury High, West Rowan and Davie County all in the state football championships. Charlotte is a 45 min drive as is Mooresville and Winston Salem. The mountains are a 2hour drive and High Rock Lake and Lake Norman are nearby. Outside of the city though, it's pretty bum fuck and white trash abounds!

Overall, it's a nice quiet small southern town with a little progressive movement going on. You can live here in peace, enjoy the quaintness of the town and the friendly people and then head off to one of the bigger cities for shopping/ partying etc.....

Hope that helps!

12/9/2010 12:18:14 AM

*** Unless you're a yankee. If that's the case you can GTFO!

12/9/2010 12:20:29 AM

I grew up there too. Pretty much what everyone else said. It's pretty small and not exciting at all. Everyone there knows each other and their families knew each other etc. A lot of people grow up there and never leave. Being as I moved there when I was little this was one thing I didn't like about it at all. It's definitely growing though. I didn't know about the bridge over the Yadkin being redone but that was something that absolutely NEEDED to be fixed even though it's gonna suck. They expanded 85 to 4 lanes on each side though and it's pretty much exactly halfway between Charlotte and Greensboro so it's got the infrastructure to explode as soon as that bridge gets done. Kinda close to actual cities but far enough away where you don't get most of the negative stuff. TONS of cops in the city limits so they get bored pretty easily. My username aside I can't say I've had good experiences with them ever. Good place to raise a family though.

Sports are a pretty big deal there. I know my high school West Rowan won the state 3A football championship like 2 years ago. Some awesome athletes came out of that school. Scooter Sherrill, Wade Moore broke every running record in the county and then KP Parks smashed them a few years later. West Rowan won the basketball state championship a few years in a row going like 60-0 over that time. North Rowan has produced a few top class track and field athletes. And the entire county is obsessed with baseball. That's just high school. If you're going there to be a sportswriter there will be no shortage of work.

Also, MOTHER FUCKING HAPS. Salisbury Post office is like 2 blocks away.

12/9/2010 1:36:32 AM

^True that. I FUCKING HATE the Salisbury Police Department

12/9/2010 1:43:38 AM

Yeah, two of my friends had guns drawn on them for no reason because the cops thought they were somebody else based on an anonymous tip from some kids on meth or something.

12/9/2010 1:46:56 AM

Quote :

"actually from what I've seen, Salisbury is one of the most NC State friendly towns"

yeah, it's not as bad as it used to be. it's always nice that we can listen to wolfpack sports on 95.7 the riiiiiide

12/9/2010 2:01:08 AM

Well there are a lot of farmers in Rowan County so that kind of makes sense.

12/9/2010 2:02:20 AM

Quote :

"at least it's not Kannapolis."

this.

and i'd rather beat my head with a brick.

12/9/2010 4:49:38 AM

Ktown is kind cool downtown but i wouldn't raise a family there... cause then they'd go to Kannapolis

I wouldn't do anything in salisbury though... ever... cept maybe get gas or buy a car.

12/9/2010 7:11:45 AM

You're gonna get fat eating at Haps every lunch, but it'll be worth it
The town, as a few people have already said, is much better these days. If you're into music at all there's a bit of it here, otherwise expect to drive to Charlotte. The stretch of I-85 between Kannapolis and Concord is absolutely full of retards, rubbernecking, and traffic. Otherwise, it's not so bad. The historic district is pretty nice, but if you're not into that you can walk a couple blocks and buy some crack. Tons of options here. (I really like the town though, seriously)

12/9/2010 8:02:36 AM

i would move to concord instead and just make the commute.

12/9/2010 9:10:21 AM

Nice town...I've heard it referred to as Smallsbury, but mostly by a couple people I knew who went to Catawba College there.

My reserve unit was down in Concord, and that area isn't bad...I-85 makes it pretty easy to commute from wherever, and Charlotte is close enough for easy weekend trips.

12/9/2010 9:14:58 AM

Food Lion world headquarters.

srsly

12/9/2010 9:15:01 AM

steak jokes are funny itt

12/9/2010 12:37:53 PM

WILLOW STREET!!!!!

2nd'd to the positive statements, itt.

12/9/2010 2:50:02 PM

Dentaldamn ftw.


but yeah, i know several people who work for Food Lion and commute to and from Concord daily. It's not bad at all.

12/9/2010 2:54:24 PM

Do i know any people that work for food lion ? lol


Btw i remember when i was talking about tww once and you looked i me like i was a retard.... aparently 20k posts ago...


[Edited on December 9, 2010 at 2:57 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2010 2:56:53 PM

I used to work in Salisbury. The only thing there is strip malls and chain restaurants as far as the eye can see. There was also a pretty dank old school country restaurant in the gas station near the farm I was working on, but you'd gain 400 pounds if you ate there regularly.

12/9/2010 2:59:12 PM

Quote :

"I grew up there, but let a woman trick me into moving up the road to Lexington."

Hey now, Lexington isn't so bad.

Anyway, I really like Salisbury. I only applied to NC State and Catawba and chose NC State but I wouldn't have minded Salisbury.

They have some nice restaurants and a really nice movie theater. It's a really pretty town but there is still stuff to do.

12/9/2010 3:02:22 PM

What the fuck is/where Salisbury......aka Hickville, USA!



ughh...Negative!

12/9/2010 7:01:58 PM

You're right in the middle of some good BBQ country. Lexington has the name recognition but there are joints in Faith, China Grove (my hometown) and just about all the small towns in Rowan County that are good eats.

12/9/2010 7:06:48 PM

http://www.lamurphs.com/

fucking good food

12/9/2010 7:10:17 PM

oh i love l.a. murph's. the palms is really good too.

geez, how many t-dubbers are in salisbury? i just moved back a couple weeks ago.

12/9/2010 7:46:38 PM

When my family lived in Lexington in the early 90s, we used to frequent Salisbury often to sell stuff (mostly antiques) at the indoor/outdoor flea market most Saturdays. Pretty sure it isn't there anymore, but I think it was right before you got to the bridge over the Yadkin going southbound on 85.

Other than that, I don't remember to much about the place other than spotting a replica of the Ghostbusters car at some auto shop in town (had a few broken windows, but I still was fascinated!).

[Edited on December 9, 2010 at 8:33 PM. Reason : ]

12/9/2010 8:30:13 PM