Visiting Charlotte for the first time.

i am here in clt...cornelius. u can come see my new house, ferraris, porsche, ducatis...and you can send your wife to look at the surrounding areas.

a nice place to live.

 

check out south park and lake norman

 

Peter, sounds like it's about time for you to have an "open house" for the CAFE group???? We love Ferraris, Ducatis, etc. We'll tolerate a Porsche or two. I hope all is well.
- Brian

 

OK, we don't have any Ferrari's...yet....but we are somewhat involved with CAFE...

Where are you coming from??

Feel free to stop by our place Exclusive Motors (www.exclusive-motors.com) and we can help you out with the whats and wheres of Charlotte.

Where to live (if you choose to move) all depends on what you want. Charlotte and surrounding communities has everything: lake living, city life, country club, or "just far enough out of town to be away, just close enough to do everything", like where I live on Mt. Island Lake.

What to see...wow, that depends on what you like. One of the things we like about Charlotte (been here 4 years, moved from NJ) is that it is centrally located to everything. Asheville is only 2 hours, Charleston - 3 hours, Atlanta - 4 hours, Myrtle Beach - 3 hours or so....

Where to stay....I would recommend near downtown because it's easy to get to anywhere.

Any help you need, give me a call 704.309.5499.

-Bob Saville

 

Gary,
Great place to consider, my family and I just moved here about a year and half ago. We love it started off in Huntersville, now in Mooresville on Lake Norman. My shop Auto Corsa is in Cornelius, what a great little town, and Davidson , wow it doesn't get any more down home than that. CAFE is a great group of guys lots of diversity and fellowship. Come on by and visit , if I can help with this area would be more than happy to.

Wade
www.autocorsa.com

 

Another nice get-away would be in south charlotte. the Ballantyne resort is pretty nice, there is a spa, pool, tennis and golf, and it is a great area to live. about 20 minutes south of downtown (uptown as they call it here). Cornelius and lake Norman are about 20 minutes north of uptown,,,RT

 

MIchelle/Gary

I know exactly where you are coming from, Davidson has a college in it, very exclusive and private. The area surrounding Davidson is wonderful. But, if you are looking for country feel with acreage, I would consider Mooresville, Troutman area. They are wonderful and only 20-30 minutes from downtown Charlotte. Not growing too fast up there but the North Charlotte and Huntersville area is growing quickly. They just built a huge mall at exit 18 off of I77 and most of Huntersville is exit 23-25 Anything north of that you should find exactly what you are looking for.

Wade
www.autocorsa.com

 

Michelle/Gary

We are one block off the lake, still have lake view but not on the water. We do not have any land. Wish we did but we took what we could afford at the time. Statesville is nice a bit to country for me, it is about 35 miles from Charlotte. From Huntersville to Statesville, you can be comfortable living like city folk or you can be so secluded you will wonder if people existed at all, and a good mix of everything in between. Good idea to check out all possiblities. If you want a tour guide my wife and I would enjoy showing you what we have seen in the short time we have been here.


Wade
www.autocorsa.com

 

If you want more specific information about Statesville let me know and I will do what I can to help. I currently live in Statesville. I have to agree that Statesville is a lot less metropolitan than the lake areas further south. However, if you want acreage at a reasonable price Statesville or Salisbury is where you might want to start. The best thing about Statesville is we can be in downtown Charlotte in 45 minutes, downtown Winston-Salem in 30 minutes, or downtown Hickory in 25 minutes. Yes we are a little further from the coast, but if you like cars and motorcycles, the mountain roads are where you are going to want to be. Today the temperature was nearly 60 degrees F. Although I did not get the Ferrari out, my sons did. The Porsche stayed in the garage all day.

What ever you decide to do we will all welcome you to the area. Let me know if you want to know more about the areas north of CLT.

 

What was that noise? Oh yeah, it was my stomach growing. Thanks Rob...




(Just kidding. If you want to go driving this week, give me a shout)

 

Sorry Daniel. But if you want to chastise me on a public forum that is alright with me. Believe me, if we had actually followed through with the dinner plans, Ravelle and I would not have been sitting at that intersection and been rear ended. Luckily we were not in the Ferrari, but rather the Suburban. A diabetic 65 year old man driving a Cadillac Sedan DeVille apparently forgot to take his insulin. He slammed into the back of us doing at least 40 mph. And not a skid mark to be seen.

We promise to make it up to you next week.

Robert and Adam did get the Ferrari out for a quick spin today.

Merry Christmas to you, Cameron, and Luka.

 

Oh, I forgot the driving invitation. What are you doing Monday?

 

Okay, I emailed you, anyone hurt?

Hmmm, maybe his car had ABS? You know that system is designed not to lock the tires.

If you'd been in the Ferrari, you could have put up the force field protector and your car would have been insulated from danger!

Doggone, this is a popular place, even Bob Saville is on here.

 

Wow....a Vette guy on this board? How did they let you in Jody?

Well Gary & Michelle, it should be obvious by now that the answer to "where should we look" is all relative. If you want acreage, you'll have to head out of town a bit, but that's not a bad thing. Heck, we live 15 minutes outside of Uptown an there are horse farms just up the road from us less than a mile away.

-Bob

 

Hey Bob! I told them I owned a FIAT and they let me right in.

Gary, if you're coming to the area, I'd recommend also looking in Iredell county so as to avoid the out of control Mecklenburg property taxes. I live in Troutman, an area just between Mooresville & Statesville, and there's plenty of surrounding open land. If you want to live on the lake, there's a lot of that, too, albeit expensive.

 

Wow Rob, hope everyone is ok, when did this happen. My wife and two kids were exiting I40 at exit 151 Tuesday evening about 6 and a 68 year old woman watching the flashing lights from another accident rear ended my wife totaled the car,she said she wasn't paying attention and did not even apply the brakes until the noise of the impact. My wife has a cracked rib where she broke the steering wheel, and lots of soreness, kids and wife were all carried away in an ambulance, they are doing better now but wow what a scare. must be the week for rearendings.


Wade

 

Our accident occured Friday about 4 pm and certainly was not as severe as your experience. The driver that hit us was in the ambulance for about 45 minutes while they stabilized his blood sugar but he was not taken to the hospital. My wife and I as well as the gentleman we hit were all fine. Glad to hear no one was seriously injured in your wife's incident, but I am sure she will be sore for a while.

Of course some of my track Ho friends would point out the ABS issue. Naturally, I was not thinking clearly when I made that comment. It must have been the accident that clouded my thinking. I would post a picture if I were smart enough to retrieve it from my phone.

Hope the rest of your Holiday is a safe one.

 

We lived in Salisbury from 1989 through most of 1990 and it is a nice quiet place to live with lots of Old South history. Like many of the other small NC communities they roll the sidewalks up around 9 pm. However, the town has grown significantly since I lived there so it might be more like 10 pm. The worst part about Salisbury at this point is all of the road construction on Interstate 85. But this is only scheduled to be a problem for another year or two. In what direction was the place your wife found. There are advantages to each. If you go West you are closer to Lake Norman and Statesville (where I live). If you go North, you are closer to Winston-Salem and Greensboro, where you will have to look out for JRR. If you go South you get Charlotte (ugh, the traffic) and all the CAFE crowd. East you are closer to the coast, but not much else. What else do you want to know?

 

The downtown is just okay. There are three above average restaurants downtown. And several other average restaurants around town. I would consider Statesville's downtown as acceptable for limited shopping so plan to visit one of the larger communities within a one hour drive of downtown for any serious shopping.

I too love older homes and there are some beautiful ones here in Statesville. Older homes take substantially more love and care which certainly cuts into Ferrari time.

There are community sponsored events that are fun, but who needs those events when you own a Ferrari and you live so close to the Blue Ridge Parkway.

When do you plan on visiting? If you would like for me to send you a new comer's packet which may have some information not available on line I would be happy to do so. Just let me know.