I lived in Fayetteville for 8 years and I can tell you that your social time will be best spent not in Fayetteville. There's the first of the month meet in Raleigh that is pretty cool. I don't do car meets too often, I personally save my annual allocated "car time" at various road courses (if you are interested in that stuff lmk)
Fayetteville sucks but make the most of being in the Carolinas as it is an awesome region, I was forced to move to Fayetteville but now voluntarily living in Raleigh and you would have to force me to leave.