Western North Carolina is my favorite area in all of USA. I even wrote a book about it, Land of Friendliness and Beauty - A Danes Guide to Western North Carolina

I've lived all across the US from California to Texas to New York.. I think North Carolina is the most underrated state and offers the best value for the $$$. One of the most beautiful states on the East Coast.

I absolutely love my state. NC has everything you could possibly want; beautiful mountains, great Southern cities and towns, and the BEST beaches in the country. I am very proud to live right here in Raleigh and I would never want to leave my great state of North Carolina.

I’m from the UK and spent a Christmas in Wilmington once, really nice place, great beaches, great food too!

Im originally from NYC but this summer i took a road trip all the way down to New Orleans and i had one stop in Lake Lure, NC. It was a very beautiful mountainous place with nice people

Living here for 37 of my 37 yrs, you did an excellent job overviewing NC. Even Rocky Mt. you nailed, its the worst but not all that bad.

In Asheville I got to drive across the Blue Ridge mountain range nearly every day. It made work much more enjoyable.

In Greensboro, we got 5 colleges/university. UNCG, NC A&T, Guilford College, Bennett College and Greensboro College.

Born and raised a North Carolinian. A love hate relationship with it, but I’m proud of it. Love Asheville, it doesn’t get enough love.

I visited NC years ago when my sister-in-law lived in Fort Bragg and my cousin was at UNC Chapel Hill as well. Visited Fayetteville, Chapel Hill, drove out to Wilmington one day. Beautiful countryside and character of the older towns, interesting mix of North and South culture

Having lived in NC for most of my life I would say I'm biased, but it is a fantastic state that has it all. I'm so glad you devoted an entire video to it -- the state really deserves it. In the past year alone I've met a number of people who said they moved here not for work or because they had any connections, but simply because it seems like a great place to live. None of them said they regretted the move.

Lifelong resident of NC. You are VERY accurate with your description of all of the towns, I'm impressed! NC is a wonderful state and has so much more to offer than most others in the county

NC is my home, so I’m a bit biased in saying this, but I think we’re really underrated. I think our geographic diversity, good economy, and our surprising mix of political / cultural groups gives us a lot of potential for growth. If we can just work on things like infrastructure and entertainment we could be as big of a player as someone like Georgia. Raleigh, Asheville, Wilmington, the Outer Banks, the entire mountainous western part of the state, all big highlights. I was ecstatic to see this in my feed. Thanks Kyle :)

👍🏼Yes, OBX / Outer Banks are awesome! Great beaches, tasty seafood, fun shops, and wild horses! Duck & Corolla are favorite places! ⚓😎✌🏼

Always a pleasure to learn about different parts of the country! Greetings from WA!

Oceans, beaches, highest mountains west of the Rockies, what's not to love about NC?

Look forward to moving to North Carolina next month! Great video as always!

Hello from Greensboro!

And the Smokies roads are an absolute blast to drive in

Fun fact: the Green Swamp Reserve in Brunswick County is pretty much the spot where Venus fly traps were originally discovered. They grow in other areas of the world now but they are natural to that small swampy area. You should see a car and how dirty it is after riding down the highway on a summer night. Sounds like rain hitting your car because you run into so many bugs.

Really enjoyed this. Although, you dropped the ball on Greenville. Fastest growing city/town in the east. In the last 4-5 years it's kinda a night and day difference.

Yoo thanks for mentioning my birthtown Hendersonville. It doesn't really get mentioned that much on the internet and I am glad to see it in this video

Thanks for the video. I grew up in Maryland but have lived in the Raleigh area for 18 years. We have a kid at UNC in Chapel Hill, one at UNCW in Wilmington and another at ASU in Boone. 3 great towns to visit. We camp all over the state and love that we are hours from the mountains and hours from the beach.

Hey Kyle. I'm 16 and plan on traveling a lot in the future. I went to Asheville this past summer and it was definitely my favorite in NC (I also live in Winston Salem)

We travelled extensively around NC one year (1800+ miles on a rental car in two weeks, never left the state). By accident, we stumbled upon a beer festival in Beer City, USA (ie. Asheville). A guy who was young enough to be our son denied us entry into a brewpub because he thought our Canadian driver licenses were fake lol We didn't try to contest it, and it didn't impact our good time, we just said "no worries, we'll just go to one of the dozens of other pubs within our peripheral." What a city! What a state!

Just returned from a trip to the Smokies and stayed in Asheville for 3 nights. Always love traveling through NC. It was my second home growing up and the opportunities for outdoor activities there are endless. Also have a sister in Hickory who went to college there and stayed after graduating and she's settled right in, so I have plenty of reason to go back. Can't wait for my next visit.

11:42 HOMETOWN!!! Of my childhood.

Greensboro is my hometown and it has 5 colleges/ universities. UNCG, NC A&T, Greensboro College, Bennett College and Guilford College. Now i live im Winston Salem Wake Forest and WSSU. The Piedmont is beautiful.

I lived in the Asheville area for nine years and love to go to the outer banks with my extended family every few years. Thanks for making a video about my favorite state and keep up the good work!

I'm from jacksonville nc, and the beaches in nc are beautiful!

That was very interesting! I've been living in northern Virginia for the last two decades, but only once have I driven through NC, and I hardly stopped, as I was on the way to Greenville, SC. Now I think I'd like to visit.

Probably one of the best states in the US hands down. It’s damn near perfect

I grew up in WNC and it's my favorite place on earth. It's just magical and I feel at home every time I go back and visit those mountains

Great video, Kyle. Thank you.

been looking forward to this for a long time! Awesome video

never been this early to a geo king video before. I'm from winston-salem, and I lived in Boone for a little over 5 years. Western NC is one of the best spots in the US!

I was definitely excited to see new content. This was a great video to show a pretty cool state with a lot to offer. I can’t say enough good things about this channel. I’m a big fan

OBX! I was blown away by the beauty of that part of the state. My wife went up to see the wild horses in Corolla. This state is really amazing!

Very enjoyable and informative vid. Just a consistently great channel, so thank you Kyle.

Very nice. Thank you. I'm always glad to see one of your posts pop up.

Your videos are so awesome! Very grateful for your them!

I moved to the “swamppy” area he is talking about a year ago. It’s great if you like kayaking. There is a super cute little town just 20 minutes from where I live called Edenton. It’s a cute, rich in history town on the river sound! If you are driving from Raleigh to the outer banks is a small detour but I would say worth it.

Born n raised in western NC... it is quite beautiful here

👍🏼 Elizabeth City represent! ✌🏼😎

Excellent video... thorough, yet concise and very informative. Thank you.

Great stuff, all of your videos. Nothing comparable on the internet. Glad I have found your channel.

I enjoy this kind of information. Thanks for your channel, I stumbled across it this afternoon.

Hell yeah, love this channel! I honestly have nothing constructive to contribute.

I love North Carolina, although I've only been to a small portion. Driving up 95, as well as visiting around Fayetteville (but not in the actual city). I'd like to go there more thoroughly sometime, like everywhere else.

Thank you so much Kyle! Great video!

I traveled through North Carolina about 30 years ago, from the Appalachians to the Outer Banks and loved it all! Such variety! Even though I lost my car keys on Ocracoke Island when a high tide wave knocked me over, I still had a wonderful trip. (Oh, if anybody finds some keys around the Outer Banks to a 1988 Mazda, those are mine, but that car is history, so you can keep 'em.) Ocracoke was the most beautiful remote beach I have ever seen. A particularly cool place I saw was Mt. Airy, the real life Mayberry, in the foothills of the Appalachians. The town was not yet overrun with tourists dressed like Andy and Barney; it had a nice sprinkling of images from the show, like an Aunt Bea's Restaurant and a Mayberry Mall shopping center.

Been there many times. It's crazy beautiful. Many motorcycle rides endless beauty. Love it. 👍

Great video, Kyle! I'm hoping to do some traveling around North Carolina next spring and you've provided a lot of inspiration for my trip.

I love this new take on your US states feature video. Its more like a touristy video which is light and easy to watch. Hoping your next vids would be more like this one. Keep it up Kyle

Always nice to learn more about US states with your videos. Also, the photos from your new camera look great Kyle.

I've have lived in NC for 12 years and seen a good bit of it. You did an excellent job hitting most of the highlights. Too big to cover everything but there is also Mt. Airy which is where Andy Griffith is from and was the inspiration for Mayberry. Also the Southern PInes area is an upscale resort area if you like golf and have the money. Much of the area in the Piedmont is rolling hills and very pretty.

Minor point - the lighthouse shown during the discussion of Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is actually Bodie Island Lighthouse which is just up the road from Hatteras.

I grew up in Hendersonville, and I'm so fortunate that I did! Absolutely loved that town and Asheville, it's such a great part of the country.

Thank you

I love your channel and love your videos. Cuz I was always into geography in school. Great video bro.

Thank you for pronouncing Appalachian correctly. I know it hurts to purposely say it incorrect as well.

Thanks for info on my neighbor to south, Tarheels.

Great video! 💜

This was awesome!! Learned so much even though it's not the traditional state profile; benefited especially from the pictures you had of the different cities and your direct comparison of them, maybe since more time could be spent on this. Watching from NC, my first trip to Ocean Isle Beach!

Moving to Charlotte NC in Spring 2022! Sooooo excited it's our last MN winter. :-) Thank you for this very informative video.

I am so impressed with your knowledge. I live in NC and you really hit the nail on the head with everything

Here in NC, we refer to Fayetteville as Fayettenam

Hated being stationed there in Jacksonville, loved it going back to visit years later

Lived in North Carolina my whole life so I may be biased in saying that it's one of the best states in the country. Pretty much got everything, mountains, beaches, city, country and pretty diverse! Wouldn't wanna live anywhere else tbh

I live in NC. I love to travel, but wouldn’t want to live anywhere else! North Carolina has awesome and varied geography.

I live near Charlotte, and I love Pisgah National Forest and the Blue Ridge Parkway. I love being so close to the mountains.

Lived here for 18 months and I’m in love with everything about it other than about 3 months of crazy humidity every summer.

👏👏 wonderful video quite informative

As someone from the triangle currently attending school at app state in boone. I can completely attest to the "counter culture feel" of asheville and boone.

John Coltrane. Always interested in seeing what's on your Playlist.

I live just outside Asheville. I love it here and will never leave.

Grew up in Wilmington, went to UNC and now live in Washington in the Pamlico River east of Greenville. The Original Washington, is the first town named for the General (1776) is growing Greenville just went over 100,000 and us growing. My little town is growing too with retirees from up North.

I grew up in Dare Co. and now live in Rockingham Co. Cool video, Kyle Thank you

Love NC! Went to Carowinds back in 2015 to ride Fury 325. 12 hr drive all the way from Canada! Drove thru the mountains on the way back. Got to go back and check out OBX!

Born and raised in Hendersonville. I’m 56 and I don’t think anyone could have grown up in a better place and time.

Thanks for making a video about my home state.

I've lived all my life except for my Army enlistment in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Super high-five for the correct pronunciation of Appalachian. It crawls all over me to it with "lay".

Born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC & I must add its the home of Krispy Kreme doughnuts! My favorite doughnut. It's also home to Richard Childress and Chocolate Myers of RCR.

What's fascinating to me about North Carolina is the diversity and attractiveness of all its cities! Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Fayetteville, Wilmington. All are very attractive and unique cities in one way or another! Which other states have this many diverse urban areas to choose from? Not even California can compare, imo. For its size, North Carolina really punches above its weight! Go NC!

NC is great! I live in GA so we go up and visit every now and then. Can’t wait for you to profile my state!

Great video!

Wilmington has a MASSIVE film studio, and, as recently as 2006, had the largest US film studio outside of Hollywood. Dawson's Creek, One Tree Hill, Matlock, the Scream series of films (there’re many more; these are just off the top of my head) were all filmed in Wilmington.

Hello from Durham!

If I had known you were in the Queen City, my friends and I would have been happy to show you around!

Would love to visit one day!😁

Thank you for sharing your information on North Carolina sir. I normally just go to the Cherokee Indian reservation there for trout fishing sir. I believe its the best trout fishing there in all the southern states sir. God bless you and your family sir. 🙏❤🙏❤🙏😊😊😊

Shout out from little old Cramerton. One of the old mill towns outside of Charlotte.

The lighthouse that you showed is the Bodie Island lighthouse! Hatteras has angled stripes on it

Great video, want to move there now lol

I grew up in north East Tennessee and as a BoyScout we never had an issue with camping, hiking, canoeing, whatever. I moved to Dallas as an adult... yeah. There’s not too much of that sadly.

One of my favorite states! I love my home state of South Carolina, but I think it’s northern brother has even more to offer. Can’t beat those Blue Ridge Mountains anywhere east of the Mississippi.

Great video, as always. One minor critique: You mentioned the Hatteras lighthouse, but showed a picture of the Bodie Island lighthouse. :)

I'm from NC (Gastonia, specifically). Live in Dallas, TX. I miss it dearly.

Thank you for pronouncing Appalachian correctly!

I have an indescribable love for this state. Having grown up in the same county where mount Mitchell is in the literal heart of the Appalachian mountains I could honestly never live anywhere other than in the mountains. My only concern right now though is within the last 2 to 3 years there has been an absurd influx of people moving to this region. House prices have tripled and small town vibes you get are slowly dying with all the new ppl who dont know the culture here. Its changing too fast