New Bern is thank to switzerland there. A bunch of people still speak bern-deutsch (bernish swiss german) and bern doesn‘t mean Bear. In swiss german is it „bär“
We love New Bern, visited many times, and have always dreamed of retiring there. As much as we'd love to be there and as much as we feel we could contribute to the overall warm, welcoming culture in a very positive way, I wonder how we would be received and welcomed as a gay married couple. Would love to envision retiring in New Bern, just not sure, unfortunately, if it's the community we would thrive. I would like to think so and would appreciate any feedback anyone would be willing to offer.
I lived there for a bit, its nice but we moved out because it was too boring. Im sure it would be a great place to retire though, plus its close to the beach
The unfair and unfounded stereotype that simply it’s in the South is a bit unfair. Unlike what the media, activists, and some politicians say, People could not care less if you guys are gay. I’m a southern conservative who lives bin the Charlotte area. Trust me. We are very live-let-live. We couldn’t care less about what others do in their personal lives, UNTIL they begin making demands towards us. I have gay friends I’ve known since high school and a nephew who is gay. We agree on many things, disagree on others. But we all love each other dearly and don’t see disagreements as “hate”. We don’t look at each other according to our identity group or are obsessed with identity groupings as the northeast and west coast are. We just treat others as individuals, period. Equal treatment, but also equal responsibility. Most of the gay people I know personally are conservative. The big difference between them and mainstream gays is they live their lives without intrusion on others, just as we do towards them, where many mainstream gay people make unfair, intolerant demands and intrusions in every crevasse of life (entertainment, corporate America, sports, the workplace, schools/college, media, ect.). There’s a huge conservative gay population in the South. The only problem would be if you guys moved here and didn’t respect what makes our region affordable and the quality of life so high. If you brought political mindsets and voting habits that have ruined areas like NY CA OR AND WA with violence, hate, intolerance, rioting, divisive identity politics, rampant homelessness, etc. The unwillingness to assimilate and respect the life and culture of southerners. Those things and the disrespect would make problems, not you being gay. So, we definitely would accept anyone, including you guys, to come and be our neighbors. But if you’re going to do what I listed above, other places like New England or CO would work better for you. Nevertheless, wherever you guys end up settling, I hope you find the place that’s right for you. Good luck and God bless.
New bern is a crazy place. One of the most aggressive cities I've ever been to. Draws fast on what it wants and doesn't want. Isn't like any other city I've ever been to in North Carolina. Its odd but everyone I ever talk to..never goes to the downtown area at all. After frequenting it for a few weekends in a row I found it is actually kind of the same exact people repeatedly visiting for the bar scenes. The shops are kind of odd as well...a few of them are extremely over priced..a few are not. Shop owners range from friendly to harassing. One of the shop owners actually confronted me as I passed accusing me of stalking thier employees! It's kind of a crazy place. In the warm months there's also a few scrapper musicians that come to play for money downtown. Kind of a cool thing but...also kind of unappealing. I laid in multiple roles testing out the area from homeless to local and found they really have absolutely no interest in the public at all besides selling thier wares and owning the property in the downtown area. Which is what most of them are doing. They own a shop and they work in it and practically live in it as well and they are either tastefully rude or totally up front about not caring about anything but keeping up the front as a tourist destination and local warm front. Which its totally not. Its not warm or welcoming at all. It's a very delusionally promoted district. A hypernegative set apart low income mostly black and Mexican apartment complex sits close by totally contradictory to the rest of the properties houses and businesses in the area. Theres a strip of attemptedly black businesses noticeably neglected and disfunctioning along the strip leading to the historical downtown area. It's basically ghetto and down town white area. That pretty much captures the whole scene. I've only seen one black person ever work consistently in the downtown marketplace. At a barber. Theres absolutely not one single black person anywhere else. None. Theres a guy who is well known locally who plays guitar and sings shabby covers of white seventies rock music. That's about it. There's not any real grip to the area. It seems like there's a school or art school or something there but nope. Its a theatre that just kind of draws a few ethnic and special interest splinters. There's one bar where locals repeatedly get too drunk and another where there's a grounded but totally boring live music scene made of mostly older out of date and style musicians just hanging on by the fight of thier grip on thier booze. There's a few newer bars on the inner strip. Same thing but a consistent young crowd. They do karaoke and a few activities but its very dry and despite a nice corn hole outdoor setup it's very dead ended as well. Another brewery acrossed the street is popular but again...a big parking lot is just another place to fill with local dui or worse victims. Watching people stumble to thier cars is not a hopeful scene on the weekend nights. Local restaurants tout famous seafood thats fair. The food downtown is pretty good actually. It's sometimes on the edge though...you can tell there's alot of pressure somewhere that again..is protected by the alcoholic contingency and backed up by other means...which is more elusive to capture..and describe. Its a scenes scene. It manages to be edgy by being upfront with the reality of drunk drivers and locals right away if you invest in the bar scenes. It's surprising but then not really. Police presence is not overwhelming or aggressive and it's obviously more geared to the specifics than to really catch anyone drinking and driving..which is like trying to catch salt in the ocean...pretty easy...the local temper is also fairly hot...like I said in my attempts to enter or linger or participate the local scene theyre not always hot on you depending what you look like...but after a while there's a bit of a local outcry to "get" anybody is who attempting to expose or ask questions. It definitly has its snitch gaurd up and deeply invested in keeping what does go on going on. Local prostitutes...local drugs...local scenes..local fraud and fakes...and local bias...is all obvious and permenant. They also have thier magnet efficiency as well. They WANT to draw people for the purpose of hurting them or getting them in trouble. Which is hard to do like I said...I mean it's THE place to go to drunk and then drive away...so its kind of biased enough to protect you but it does also want to suck you in from outside to increase or directly cause that chance you may get hurt or in trouble with the law or locals. Its very stimulating but very very boring. New Bern is racially hot city. It seems to have everything..but then..it really doesn't have it at all. Theres not any real religious or moral flow or coup in the area either so it doesn't have much bias in that way but it doesn't have any open doors the other either. No public relationship to homosexuality or transgenderism..but it is present..its just very very undercover for some reason. I think its also a place your occupation could depend on some questionable bias ...but the benefits of that as well..remain pretty shrouded...its a strange place...someone's running it...but who..still not clear either.
It's online or social media presence seems large and flexible but where any of those people really are either..again...unknown...New Bern is a pay to play kind of area. You won't get anything for free here...unless it's directed from low income or charity. The social security administration is here too..and they aren't messing around either...theyre here to support one kind of security and reap the benefit of anyone who isn't apprised to thier proximity and the speed it allows them to maneuver. I bet no one's heard that before about a local town. It's in good proximity to the water but thats kind of useless unless it's for watercraft recreation or homelessness bringing you to bathe or eat from the local shoreline. Not ANY commercial use of this shoreline anywhere for about 30 to fourty miles up to the beach a few towns over passed the military base. Local parks are as well unfriendly unless you purchased something and unwelcoming even to drivers tired pulling off the road to sleep at the rest areas. I was threatened with a 2500 fine and arrest by the state authority by one lawn mowing man at one of the shore line state rec areas. A nice little area with camping spots set apart and long trail thats closed due to downed trees and collapsing cliffs. A little parking area set up for visitors is somehow over protected yet basically ignored. New Bern is kind of a place that connects a few cities where people are pretty much uppity and arrogant and outright unhappy and mean. Seems like a great place to get murdered and totally disappear if you ask me. I see lots of positive opportunity here and great housing placement but the positive atmosphere fades the longer you're here..and let me tell you..once it starts fading...its like the shoreline..its already been swept out structurally underneath before you expected it. Theres a local voice from the clouds down to the ground here as well..it knows all sees all and judges everyone. Don't pee behind that bush or flush wet wipes if you can't take the internal heat from the New Bern God. It's a nice area with some great hosting elements and a good temper but it's not friendly..and its not easy to blend in and it continually has welcome and entre into its lesser and lower ranks of social and personal interest..and risk. Dating scene...theres none. Unless you are up to set up shop in the bars and pubs and schmooze your way into thier list of singles it goes nowhere. There's plenty of good looking women and men here...but no one is anywhere to be seen on the weekends in the local hot spots. They must all stay home and drink or excercise...or both. Me? Well..no..im not hip...im not cool...im just unfortunate enough to have had to move to new bern for work and had no other recourse but to buy some property here or remain homeless and living in my truck. The homeless scene here is decent too. Theres a few squares and wild crack pots but most of them are harmless and friendly besides anyone violent or wild. Its a peaceful place to van-stay or rv for free. The local Walmart has the overnight parking lot and plenty of it in the shopping center and so far there's no problem. Just don't use the bathroom outside and if you're like me and you hear the voice of God and his children from above and know that there's somehow awareness of what color your underwear are..make sure you set up your satellite and radar detectors for those kinds of things...I mean like getting dressed in vault so you know that when the voice of God knows what color your underwear is...something is up. When God starts challenging humanity for things God doesn't see...theres a problem...and New Bern is hot on the spot for knowing your private doings and then saying it's God..or maybe you're just paranoid? Trust me..its not God. It's not you either. But anyways New Bern is an interesting place. I hope to build a homestead here and eventually settle in and live out the remaining years and tears of boredom in New Bern just off the main drag. It makes Jacksonville look like Raleigh..and it makes Raleigh look like FBI headquarters. If you want to visit somewhere nice on the weekend with good food and friendly locals...try your back yard...grill some steak and invite yourself to fall asleep in the sun...as for New Bern...well...if you already left home....you can always just turn around...think about how good you have it at home...and head on back to reality. It's not worth it. Never has been...never will be...a half lit mall...a half lit population...a snobby periphery..and a waste of time. If work brings you here...buy fast and ground yourself. It's fun to live well...but you don't have to play with the animals to do it. Stay home...and rest and live healthy and wise. New Bern will devour your money..and watch out for that social security net...they'll get ya. Drive safe...and drive away...the other way! New Bern NC..home of the 1 inch tailgaters...get out of here before you cant. Sincerely.
This is the 2nd video I'm watching from NC Weekend; the first being Washington NC. MOST of the people/business owners in both vids have NO southern accent!! Which means that they are NOT from NC/The South!!
I've been to new Bern and hear the southern accent frequently but everybody doesn't have a southern accent. I've lived in Alabama and NC and everybody doesn't have one
@@redboy09100 That's because they aren't ACTUAL Southerner's. I lived in Louisiana and EVERYONE had an 'accent'. My ex husband is from Louisiana and has been living here in the North East for 25+ years.....and he STILL has his Southern 'twang'. REAL Southerner's have a Southern accent!
@@DawnieRotten that might've been true 25 years ago but it's not true as of today. Media, transplants etc. The south has changed, especially city parts like Nashville, Raleigh, Atlanta. Don't get me wrong plenty of people have a southern accent but it's not as strong as it use to be especially in the younger generation. I knew a lady from Mississippi and even she told me the same thing.
@@redboy09100 Yes; I KNOW this. And it is a SHAME!!! Leftists need to stay in their own hell-hole states that THEY have created. I, unfortunately, live in one of those states. Now, they are moving into the Southern states to RUIN them too! It is extremely SAD to see N.C. going Communist!
Awww, isn't that sweet. Looks like Dawn might have a little problem.. Maybe someone ought to remind her that the Confederate lost and Trump is no longer President. Seems like she's stuck in the past. 😁😆
John Whitford was my Great, great, etc grandfather. His opinion of New Bern was absolutely correct. It is an amazing place.
Lovely place!!
New Bern is thank to switzerland there. A bunch of people still speak bern-deutsch (bernish swiss german) and bern doesn‘t mean Bear. In swiss german is it „bär“
We love New Bern, visited many times, and have always dreamed of retiring there. As much as we'd love to be there and as much as we feel we could contribute to the overall warm, welcoming culture in a very positive way, I wonder how we would be received and welcomed as a gay married couple. Would love to envision retiring in New Bern, just not sure, unfortunately, if it's the community we would thrive. I would like to think so and would appreciate any feedback anyone would be willing to offer.
I lived there for a bit, its nice but we moved out because it was too boring. Im sure it would be a great place to retire though, plus its close to the beach
The unfair and unfounded stereotype that simply it’s in the South is a bit unfair. Unlike what the media, activists, and some politicians say, People could not care less if you guys are gay. I’m a southern conservative who lives bin the Charlotte area. Trust me. We are very live-let-live. We couldn’t care less about what others do in their personal lives, UNTIL they begin making demands towards us. I have gay friends I’ve known since high school and a nephew who is gay. We agree on many things, disagree on others. But we all love each other dearly and don’t see disagreements as “hate”. We don’t look at each other according to our identity group or are obsessed with identity groupings as the northeast and west coast are. We just treat others as individuals, period. Equal treatment, but also equal responsibility. Most of the gay people I know personally are conservative. The big difference between them and mainstream gays is they live their lives without intrusion on others, just as we do towards them, where many mainstream gay people make unfair, intolerant demands and intrusions in every crevasse of life (entertainment, corporate America, sports, the workplace, schools/college, media, ect.). There’s a huge conservative gay population in the South. The only problem would be if you guys moved here and didn’t respect what makes our region affordable and the quality of life so high. If you brought political mindsets and voting habits that have ruined areas like NY CA OR AND WA with violence, hate, intolerance, rioting, divisive identity politics, rampant homelessness, etc. The unwillingness to assimilate and respect the life and culture of southerners. Those things and the disrespect would make problems, not you being gay. So, we definitely would accept anyone, including you guys, to come and be our neighbors. But if you’re going to do what I listed above, other places like New England or CO would work better for you. Nevertheless, wherever you guys end up settling, I hope you find the place that’s right for you. Good luck and God bless.
Just go for it!
Me who lives there
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The birthplace of Pepsi.
One of my favorite beverages, along with orange juice!!
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Bern is a city in Switzerland and NOT German for bear
Bern doesn't mean bear in German. It's Bär
Hugo They said “Swiss” not “German” lol
Is there a psychic community?
New bern is a crazy place. One of the most aggressive cities I've ever been to. Draws fast on what it wants and doesn't want. Isn't like any other city I've ever been to in North Carolina. Its odd but everyone I ever talk to..never goes to the downtown area at all. After frequenting it for a few weekends in a row I found it is actually kind of the same exact people repeatedly visiting for the bar scenes. The shops are kind of odd as well...a few of them are extremely over priced..a few are not. Shop owners range from friendly to harassing. One of the shop owners actually confronted me as I passed accusing me of stalking thier employees! It's kind of a crazy place. In the warm months there's also a few scrapper musicians that come to play for money downtown. Kind of a cool thing but...also kind of unappealing. I laid in multiple roles testing out the area from homeless to local and found they really have absolutely no interest in the public at all besides selling thier wares and owning the property in the downtown area. Which is what most of them are doing. They own a shop and they work in it and practically live in it as well and they are either tastefully rude or totally up front about not caring about anything but keeping up the front as a tourist destination and local warm front. Which its totally not. Its not warm or welcoming at all. It's a very delusionally promoted district. A hypernegative set apart low income mostly black and Mexican apartment complex sits close by totally contradictory to the rest of the properties houses and businesses in the area. Theres a strip of attemptedly black businesses noticeably neglected and disfunctioning along the strip leading to the historical downtown area. It's basically ghetto and down town white area. That pretty much captures the whole scene. I've only seen one black person ever work consistently in the downtown marketplace. At a barber. Theres absolutely not one single black person anywhere else. None. Theres a guy who is well known locally who plays guitar and sings shabby covers of white seventies rock music. That's about it. There's not any real grip to the area. It seems like there's a school or art school or something there but nope. Its a theatre that just kind of draws a few ethnic and special interest splinters. There's one bar where locals repeatedly get too drunk and another where there's a grounded but totally boring live music scene made of mostly older out of date and style musicians just hanging on by the fight of thier grip on thier booze. There's a few newer bars on the inner strip. Same thing but a consistent young crowd. They do karaoke and a few activities but its very dry and despite a nice corn hole outdoor setup it's very dead ended as well. Another brewery acrossed the street is popular but again...a big parking lot is just another place to fill with local dui or worse victims. Watching people stumble to thier cars is not a hopeful scene on the weekend nights. Local restaurants tout famous seafood thats fair. The food downtown is pretty good actually. It's sometimes on the edge though...you can tell there's alot of pressure somewhere that again..is protected by the alcoholic contingency and backed up by other means...which is more elusive to capture..and describe. Its a scenes scene. It manages to be edgy by being upfront with the reality of drunk drivers and locals right away if you invest in the bar scenes. It's surprising but then not really. Police presence is not overwhelming or aggressive and it's obviously more geared to the specifics than to really catch anyone drinking and driving..which is like trying to catch salt in the ocean...pretty easy...the local temper is also fairly hot...like I said in my attempts to enter or linger or participate the local scene theyre not always hot on you depending what you look like...but after a while there's a bit of a local outcry to "get" anybody is who attempting to expose or ask questions. It definitly has its snitch gaurd up and deeply invested in keeping what does go on going on. Local prostitutes...local drugs...local scenes..local fraud and fakes...and local bias...is all obvious and permenant. They also have thier magnet efficiency as well. They WANT to draw people for the purpose of hurting them or getting them in trouble. Which is hard to do like I said...I mean it's THE place to go to drunk and then drive away...so its kind of biased enough to protect you but it does also want to suck you in from outside to increase or directly cause that chance you may get hurt or in trouble with the law or locals. Its very stimulating but very very boring. New Bern is racially hot city. It seems to have everything..but then..it really doesn't have it at all. Theres not any real religious or moral flow or coup in the area either so it doesn't have much bias in that way but it doesn't have any open doors the other either. No public relationship to homosexuality or transgenderism..but it is present..its just very very undercover for some reason. I think its also a place your occupation could depend on some questionable bias ...but the benefits of that as well..remain pretty shrouded...its a strange place...someone's running it...but who..still not clear either.
It's online or social media presence seems large and flexible but where any of those people really are either..again...unknown...New Bern is a pay to play kind of area. You won't get anything for free here...unless it's directed from low income or charity. The social security administration is here too..and they aren't messing around either...theyre here to support one kind of security and reap the benefit of anyone who isn't apprised to thier proximity and the speed it allows them to maneuver. I bet no one's heard that before about a local town. It's in good proximity to the water but thats kind of useless unless it's for watercraft recreation or homelessness bringing you to bathe or eat from the local shoreline. Not ANY commercial use of this shoreline anywhere for about 30 to fourty miles up to the beach a few towns over passed the military base. Local parks are as well unfriendly unless you purchased something and unwelcoming even to drivers tired pulling off the road to sleep at the rest areas. I was threatened with a 2500 fine and arrest by the state authority by one lawn mowing man at one of the shore line state rec areas. A nice little area with camping spots set apart and long trail thats closed due to downed trees and collapsing cliffs. A little parking area set up for visitors is somehow over protected yet basically ignored. New Bern is kind of a place that connects a few cities where people are pretty much uppity and arrogant and outright unhappy and mean. Seems like a great place to get murdered and totally disappear if you ask me. I see lots of positive opportunity here and great housing placement but the positive atmosphere fades the longer you're here..and let me tell you..once it starts fading...its like the shoreline..its already been swept out structurally underneath before you expected it. Theres a local voice from the clouds down to the ground here as well..it knows all sees all and judges everyone. Don't pee behind that bush or flush wet wipes if you can't take the internal heat from the New Bern God. It's a nice area with some great hosting elements and a good temper but it's not friendly..and its not easy to blend in and it continually has welcome and entre into its lesser and lower ranks of social and personal interest..and risk. Dating scene...theres none. Unless you are up to set up shop in the bars and pubs and schmooze your way into thier list of singles it goes nowhere. There's plenty of good looking women and men here...but no one is anywhere to be seen on the weekends in the local hot spots. They must all stay home and drink or excercise...or both. Me? Well..no..im not hip...im not cool...im just unfortunate enough to have had to move to new bern for work and had no other recourse but to buy some property here or remain homeless and living in my truck. The homeless scene here is decent too. Theres a few squares and wild crack pots but most of them are harmless and friendly besides anyone violent or wild. Its a peaceful place to van-stay or rv for free. The local Walmart has the overnight parking lot and plenty of it in the shopping center and so far there's no problem. Just don't use the bathroom outside and if you're like me and you hear the voice of God and his children from above and know that there's somehow awareness of what color your underwear are..make sure you set up your satellite and radar detectors for those kinds of things...I mean like getting dressed in vault so you know that when the voice of God knows what color your underwear is...something is up. When God starts challenging humanity for things God doesn't see...theres a problem...and New Bern is hot on the spot for knowing your private doings and then saying it's God..or maybe you're just paranoid? Trust me..its not God. It's not you either. But anyways New Bern is an interesting place. I hope to build a homestead here and eventually settle in and live out the remaining years and tears of boredom in New Bern just off the main drag. It makes Jacksonville look like Raleigh..and it makes Raleigh look like FBI headquarters. If you want to visit somewhere nice on the weekend with good food and friendly locals...try your back yard...grill some steak and invite yourself to fall asleep in the sun...as for New Bern...well...if you already left home....you can always just turn around...think about how good you have it at home...and head on back to reality. It's not worth it. Never has been...never will be...a half lit mall...a half lit population...a snobby periphery..and a waste of time. If work brings you here...buy fast and ground yourself. It's fun to live well...but you don't have to play with the animals to do it. Stay home...and rest and live healthy and wise. New Bern will devour your money..and watch out for that social security net...they'll get ya. Drive safe...and drive away...the other way! New Bern NC..home of the 1 inch tailgaters...get out of here before you cant. Sincerely.
This is the 2nd video I'm watching from NC Weekend; the first being Washington NC. MOST of the people/business owners in both vids have NO southern accent!! Which means that they are NOT from NC/The South!!
I've been to new Bern and hear the southern accent frequently but everybody doesn't have a southern accent. I've lived in Alabama and NC and everybody doesn't have one
@@redboy09100 That's because they aren't ACTUAL Southerner's. I lived in Louisiana and EVERYONE had an 'accent'. My ex husband is from Louisiana and has been living here in the North East for 25+ years.....and he STILL has his Southern 'twang'. REAL Southerner's have a Southern accent!
@@DawnieRotten that might've been true 25 years ago but it's not true as of today. Media, transplants etc. The south has changed, especially city parts like Nashville, Raleigh, Atlanta. Don't get me wrong plenty of people have a southern accent but it's not as strong as it use to be especially in the younger generation. I knew a lady from Mississippi and even she told me the same thing.
@@redboy09100 Yes; I KNOW this. And it is a SHAME!!! Leftists need to stay in their own hell-hole states that THEY have created. I, unfortunately, live in one of those states. Now, they are moving into the Southern states to RUIN them too! It is extremely SAD to see N.C. going Communist!
Awww, isn't that sweet. Looks like Dawn might have a little problem.. Maybe someone ought to remind her that the Confederate lost and Trump is no longer President. Seems like she's stuck in the past. 😁😆
This town is boring asf
I don”t think so
Ikr?
@@fool.zynn. I love it and I have lived here for 10 years I’m 15 so most of my life 😎🤙🏻