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“

Me who lives there

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.

The birthplace of Pepsi.

Eat eat eat.

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Bern is a city in Switzerland and NOT German for bear

Is there a psychic community?

Bern doesn't mean bear in German. It's Bär

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.

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!!

This town is boring asf