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Since I went to Virginia Tech, I know Roanoke pretty good and then have visited Raliegh and different parts of WV here and there.
Roanoke is really nice, you will get all four seasons as you say and the city is on the smaller side if you are looking for something like that. Winters can be very cold and snowy in the mountains/valley area, but spring through fall is so nice. I like the atmosphere and it was a great area to go to college, so I can imagine it would be nice to have your kids grow up around there. Roanoke has really good schools, some of my friends went to Cave Springs which I hear is really nice.
Someone spoke about the Delta Gamma chapter there, at Virginia Tech they are great. Shari Malone was the advisor for this chapter for many years. It can be hard to find advisors/Alumnae Board members in this area. My Pi Phi chapter is lucky enough to have a great AAC board who live in Blacksburg, but the closest alumnae club is in Roanoke so we dont do that much with them. Since there arent many other alum in the area it can be hard on them though.
As far as racism goes, the Roanoke area is definately primarily white. I dont think there is a problem with racism though, but I cant speak from that perspective of course. But for goodness sake you do not have to worry about running into the KKK as you put it in VA. I guess some people might be considered still "confederate" as your husband's friend said, but thats bc they have confederate flag stickers and the such on their trucks. From people who I know who have them always say its bc it means being proud of being from the south or something like that.
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