About Greensboro, NC

If you’re looking for a beautiful spot to call home that also has some of the nicest folks you’ll find anywhere, check out Greensboro, North Carolina. Founded in 1781, Greensboro has been a major tobacco, hog farming and agricultural center not only for the state of North Carolina but also for the entire United States ever since. It is part of a string of important cities, with Winston-Salem just to the west and Raleigh-Durham just to the east. If you combine these cities, you can account for almost all American tobacco farming and much of the hog farming done in the US. Greensboro is also a dynamic college town that revels in its annual basketball rivalries with nearby schools like Duke and the University of North Carolina. The cost of living here is right on par with the national average, so you won’t have to deplete your bank account to call your Greensboro apartment home.

There are plenty of things to do in this wonderful city. Greensboro is a city that embraces both professional sports as well as collegiate athletics. The Greensboro Grasshoppers minor league baseball team play their games at the beautiful and newly constructed First Horizons ballpark right in the middle of downtown. The stadium is so state of the art and large, it could easily host a major league baseball team. There are also concerts and other events at the stadium during the off season. Greensboro is also a city that embraces its past. The city was a key spot during the civil war and there are numerous historic sites around the town that commemorate important buildings, battles and moments during that dark period in American history.

Perhaps the best thing about Greensboro is how excited the city becomes during college basketball season. Everyone who lives here has a team they support, whether it is nearby powerhouses like Duke or North Carolina, or the local underdogs who play at UNC-Greensboro. It is difficult to explain the passion and the ferver that grips this area during the late winter and early spring months when college basketball season winds down, but it is similar to the passion shared by high school football fans in Texas, Ohio and Florida or that of hockey in New England.

If you’re looking for a small, studio sized Greensboro apartment, you can expect to pay $550-$650 per month. A larger one bedroom Greensboro apartment usually goes for $700-$900, while a two bedroom Greensboro apartment will cost you $900-$1100 or more depending on size. A loft sized Greensboro apartment will generally cost you $1200 or more.