Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
  - How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?

Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.

Your response: My community encompasses facility at East Carolina University, members of the medical community surrounding Vidant hospital, and the members of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation and the Interfaith Alliance of East Carolina, both of which work to foster accepting faith communities while helping the underserved in our area.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What are the cultural bonds in your community?
  - If your community has a shared history, what is it?

Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - Where are residents employed?
  - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?

Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.

Your response: Rivers feature prominently in our area and maintaining that resource for its natural beauty, it's function as a water source, and the tourism it attracts is important. Pollution and debris in the river, and clogging storm drains, is a consistent issue.

Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
  - What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
  - What are the needs of your community?
  - Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?

Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines

Your response: Eastern North Carolina is largely rural and community services and access are often lacking. Even our bigger towns don't have the broadband access necessary to function in an increasingly tech dependant world.One of our major needs I more affordable housing, but local developers focus on building high prices college housing, creating an excess of that kind of high prices communal housing while single family living arrangements are space and over priced.